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34. Relieving Your Stress Triggers

Although there are many different migraine triggers, the most common and

prevalent triggers are stress and food items. Stress tops the list in causing

migraine headaches. Our modern lifestyle is so demanding that stress exists in
every part of life.

Stress will continue to play a dominant role in the future too. Although a difficult

proposition, the most effective solution to your migraine problems is considerable
reduction of stress levels.

The incidence of migraine headaches is higher in women than in men. Financial

stress is common to both genders. Such stress tends to control your moods. Your
body responses vary according to your moods.

Higher stress leads to depression and associated pressure on your nervous and

vascular systems. This causes a migraine. Lowering stress levels can eliminate

depression but may not provide relief from migraine headaches.

Hence, effective treatment is to bring about changes in your physical and
emotional reactions to stressful situations. These stress-relieving techniques
include relaxation tools and biofeedback.

You can also monitor the occurrence and intensity of your migraine headaches.

You can then correlate stressful incidents that trigger emotions or physical

exertions at such times. These could be the causes of your migraine attacks.

Evaluation of different therapies can help you locate the ideal de-stressor for
providing relief from your migraine attacks.

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