The Dark Side of Migraine Headache Treatment

Your Migraine Headache Treatment is Making Things Worse

There are two reasons that anyone suffering from migraine headache pain should consider a natural migraine headache treatment.

1. It works better than any migraine headache medication.
2. It's free.

The kind of migraine headache relief you receive from a natural migraine headache treatment course is significantly different from the migraine headache relief you receive from medication.

Here I'll discuss the down side to a common medical migraine headache treatment: Preventative Migraine Headache Medication (Prophylactic)

PREVENTATIVE MIGRAINE HEADACHE TREATMENT - MEDICATION

Preventative migraine headache medication, or prophylactic medication, is popular among doctors specializing in migraine headache treatment

Popular preventative medications include Topamax, Depakote, and Neurontin.

SIDE EFFECTS

As with any prescription migraine headache treatment, you may experience significant side effects.

I found that each of the above drugs made me dizzy, naseous, foggy and just plain tired all day long.

When I first started on Topamax, I took a three hour nap in the middle of the day and could not focus at work. I found it increasingly difficult to make it through the day without a nap. I didn't want to wake up, wanted to sleep all day long.

And then the dosage increased....

Each one of these drugs requires a swift dosage increase, as well, to maintain their effectiveness. Many people discontinue use of the drug in the hopes that a migraine headache treatment MUST exist that doesn't leave you feeling drugged up and dizzy all day long.

THE REAL STORY

The dark underbelly of migraine headache treatment is, as with any business, buried under the bottom line. If you are prescribed a drug as part of your migraine headache treatment, you are being asked to fund the R&D costs of a major drug company.

It may sound cynical to you, and before your dismiss this entirely consider this:

Every preventative migraine headache treatment medication was originally developed to treat a different disease.

Whether we're talking about antidepressants or drugs for epileptic seizures, not one of these drugs were developed as a migraine headache treatment.

INDICATION EXPANSION

Indication Expansion is insider term used by drug companies to describe the process of approving one medication for the treatment of a disease FOR WHICH IT WAS NEVER INTENDED.

By their own admission, this marketing exercise is intended to expand the possible return on investment for a particular drug.

See this from OBBeC [a leading BioTech company]

"Drug development processes consume around $1 billion and 10-15 years from concept to commercialization. Skyrocketing expenditures in pharmaceutical R&D have forced the pharmaceutical industry to invent innovative strategies to maximize their return on investment."

Notice the use of the word "forced." The cost of research and development has forced drug companies to expand the use of drugs beyond their original purpose.

Topamax is an epileptic seizure drug. Not a migraine headache treatment.

If I were suffering from epileptic seizures, I am sure the terrible side effects that come with Topamax would be a small price to pay for relief from what must be a horrible condition.

But to take this drug as a means of preventing migraine headaches, to use it under the guise of legitimate migraine headache treatment, to me, after 15 years of suffering and personal experimentation with all varieties of migraine headache treatment, seems like a cruel joke.

THE CRUEL JOKE

When I was first prescribed Topamax as a migraine headache treatment, I was told it was used to prevent migraine headaches. A little research uncovered the fact that it's an epileptic seizure drug.

Because of the pain I was in, because of the my desperate circumstances, I automatically believed that this medication was somehow discovered to have a significant impact on migraine headaches.

I wanted so badly to believe that this was a wonderful day in the advancement of migraine headache treatment, that we have all these wonderful new drugs with which to combat migraine headaches...

Don't believe it.

It's a marketing ploy and nothing more.

COMMON SENSE

If these drugs worked the way doctors and drug companies claim they do, then this site wouldn't exist. There wouldn't be LITERALLY a hundred thousand blogs suggesting alternative migraine headache treatments.

There wouldn't be millions of migraine headache sufferers.

If these medications prevented migraines in a tolerable way, we would all be happy and declaring our undying loyalty to J&J and Topamax and Depakote and Neurontin and NameYourPoison.

Do a search. You won't find one unbiased site declairing their love for these drugs.

Because they aren't migraine headache treatments.

They are marketing gimmicks.

They are a product of Indication Expansion. That is a fact taken directly from the drug companies' own literature.

Your body will tell you what migraine headache treatment to use and what migraine headache treatment to stay away from.

If you're interested in a free migraine headache treatment that is natural -- that requires you to BUY NOTHING -- take a look at other Migraine Headache Treatment Options.

Migraine Headache Treatment Options

Not All Migraine Treatment Options Are Created Equal

This site is dedicated to the variety of options from which you can choose when considering a migraine headache treatment.

This isn't a flashy site, with lots of graphics, cool fonts and super cool new products to sell.

I'm not selling anything.

Simply, when it comes to migraine headache treatment, I have seen it all; I have tried it all; I have experienced various levels of success with, literally, IT ALL.

And here, I will share with you what I've learned during my 15 year search for the best migraine headache treatment.

THE PITFALLS - COMMON MIGRAINE HEADACHE TREATMENT MISTAKES

1. Medication is the only migraine headache treatment solution.

When we're sick, we go to the doctor. A doctor treats you with medicine. If this is your focus, then the focus of your migraine headache treatment will be migraine medication.

This path will lead to 3 things:

• Immediate relief from your current migraine headache.
• A devastating rebound headache cycle that seems impossible to escape.
• Frustration with all migraine headache treatment.

2. Not identifying all of your triggers.

All migraine headache treatment options SHOULD begin with the identification of your own personal migraine triggers.

Unfortunately, I have not found a single doctor that places the emphasis on trigger identification. In my experience, this is the ONLY path to a migraine headache treatment that will CURE you of your migraine headaches.

Every doctor I have gone to prescribed me one drug or another -- and most prescribed 3 or more drugs at once. This has been the automatic migraine headache treatment response I have received from EVERY doctor I have gone to over a 15 year time period.

Identifying and eliminating ALL of your triggers must be the first step in your migraine headache treatment and will do more for you than any medication EVER will.

3. Fearing all medication.

It's better to steer clear of all medicine than to use all medicine that your prescribed blindly.

However...an effective migraine headache treatment course will include the infrequent use of abortive migraine medication (e.g., Imitrex, Axert, Zomig, etc.), as well as the occasional dose of Aleve to boost the effectiveness of the triptan (abortive medication).

But again, if your current migraine headache treatment does not include ANY medication, you are still better off than following a migraine headache treatment plan that includes LOTS of migraine medication.

4. Not questioning your migraine headache treatment.

Doctors are testy. It's rare to find a doctor in any field that actually enjoys being tested on the validity of their diagnosis. Especially difficult is asking your doctor questions after she prescribes a migraine headache treatment plan.

But this is your life and your doctor is being rewarded handsomely for the few minutes you're spending with her.

If you have a question, ask. If you want to know why a certain medication makes you feel a certain way, ask.

If you are curious as to why you are having more migraine headaches since the start of your migraine headache treatment, you should ask.

Just be ready to go to another doctor. Because not all doctors are created equal.

5. Not trusting your own body to tell you what migraine headache treatment works.

I was raised to do whatever my doctor told me to do. After 15 years of suffering with migraine headaches that actually increased in severity and frequency as I increased the intensity for a medical migraine headache treatment, I came to the realization that I hadn't tried everything.

I hadn't listened to my body and tried what it told me to do.

Ask yourself this: When was the last time I didn't take a pill to solve my migraine headache? When was the last time I tried a natural migraine headache treatment?

YOU can determine the course of your migraine headache treatment.

CONCLUSION

A migraine headache treatment, in order to be fully effective, requires a prescription to the triptan that works best for you. But these are not necessary very often if you follow the proper migraine headache treatment path.

Don't get stuck in a rebound cycle. No one should naturally suffer from migraine headaches more than a couple times a month (even that is too frequent). No one should be taking pills every day as their migraine headache treatment.

There's a better way. Read Better Migraine Headache Treatment Options.