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The following day, I started a new regime of eating breakfast and then eating little but often throughout the day - and the auras stopped. The solution, for me, was as simple as that.
I chose oats because they contain complex carbohydrates which, apparently, provide a slow release of energy and help maintain stable blood-sugar levels for several hours after eating. Sometimes I take them as porridge and sometimes I bake my own bread and add a cupful of oats into the dough mixture.
A couple of weeks ago, I was under a lot of pressure and I stopped eating - the migraine auras returned the very next day. I had four of them over the course of a week and then I started eating properly again and they stopped. So, for anybody suffering from any form of migraine, with or without auras, and for which the trigger is still unknown, I would strongly urge you to look at your diet and take particular care to eat a high carbohydrate breakfast and then eat little but often throughout the day in order to maintain reasonable and stable blood-sugar levels.
Anxiety, which causes you to clench your jaw. If you do a fake yawn, and open your jaw wide, and hear/feel a creak, that could be a cause.
Headaches can also be caused by tense muscles at the back of the head/neck.
If you move your head around, and get creaks, or the muscles feel really tight there, get more sleep, rest, eat nourishing food, and be more detached from your work.
It isn't important enough to be getting sick over.
A bit of exercise, a jog, exercising in the home so you get out of breath, is also good.
And drink water. Not gallons, like these 'detox' fools, but enough so your mouth is moist.
Quick question, I work all morning then take lunch downstairs.
Why is it after my lunch I walk back up the stairs and 5 seconds later ive got a pulsing sore head?
Very weird.
Did you have a proper breakfast to start the day?
Are you so fat and out-of-condition that a walk up the stairs after a heavy meal knackers you?
Eat light sandwiches, cup of tea...
and get your blood pressure levels : respiration rate : gas exchange rate etc checked after having performed exercise ..and prior to..
and dont smoke ..
edited for clarity
[edited by: Leosghost at 3:23 pm (utc) on Dec. 6, 2006]
I normaly guess whats about to happen in the very early stages I have a craving for water, it all looks very warm and comforting, therefore I bath a heck of a lot in the run up.
I find a really good pre-emptive strike is to go to bed with a mug of hot milk that has 2 - 3 caps of whiskey in, that really helps me.
It reduces the symptoms.
I don't smoke so It just be... all in my head :( (ironic laugh)...
