Role of Stress in Progression of Migraine

Shamoon Noushad,Ikram Tunio,Huma Khalid,Rida Nasir,Sadaf Ahmed,Shaikh Tahir

doi:10.29052/ijehsr.v2.i2.2014.67-71

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The mental and physiological stresses can be an important trigger of migraines & headaches. These strains act to enhance the progression of migraine that could be psychological, physiological stress, Environmental stress or Chemical stress. The population data of 185 people have taken which include the ages from 14-60 years. The data were analyzed by ICHD-II criteria .The duration of the research was from-February 2012 to December 2012.The targeted population were of both genders age ranges 18-25 years. The data have collected in two parts, before examination and during examination. The obtain result shows that the frequency of migraine is higher in women as compare to men. Mostly people were suffering from mild psychological stress that might be periodical stress as approximately 50% people were students who were under examination stress as the exams were about to held. Nutritional stress is another major factor as the high temperature causes dehydration resulted in vasoconstriction resulted in sensation of pain. Environmental stress was an additional cause for students. Physiological stress was also noticed as the main cause that bring about the initiation of migraines period whether it could also leads towards the Menstrual migraine that has a sign of vomiting or nausea. Individual concerns with healthy life patterns and stress free conditions could help a person to reduce or prevent the migraine.

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Photophobia and phonophobia due to Psychological or physiological changes .The exact mechanism of migraine is still unknown .CNS plays an important role and secretion of cortisol from adrenal cortex (Hussain, 2008)
The ratio of migraine is higher in women as compare to men and among women it is quit higher in the women who are married and episodes usually increases in pregnancy that could be because of different hormonal and physiological changes during that period as women faces different emotional and in many cases nutritional stress
It was found that the women were highly susceptible to migraine as compare to Men encompasses the difference in their physiology as the women has an additional type of migraine i.e. menstrual migraine which usually begin in the stage of puberty and impede at the menopausal phase this physiological variation cause a temporary physiological stressed state whether the quotient of psychological stress is high in women in contrast to men (Goadsby, 2002; May, 1999)

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Photophobia and phonophobia due to Psychological or physiological changes .The exact mechanism of migraine is still unknown .CNS plays an important role and secretion of cortisol from adrenal cortex (Hussain, 2008). Different psychological stress that usually exposed in our daily life include load shedding, political impact lack of basic necessities ,unemployment and other socioeconomic stress participate critical role (Gervil, 1999; Holroyd, 2001) whether events like getting married or divorced, having a baby, family problems, financial pressures, study and other day to day stresses might be the sources of stress in spite of that hormonal changes ,bright light usually sun light ,physical exertion ,oversleeping ,empty stomach may bring about the initiation of migraine that results in the intense throbbing constant pain, dullness or sometimes dizziness whether environmental factor play a crucial role (Soleimanpour, 2012; Bokhari, 2008), as the high temperature might causes dehydratic condition and nutritional deficiency that causes hypoglycemic condition due to this body tries to retain water and nutrition which brings about vascular constriction and pain which is a physiologically stressed condition (Yu, 2011; Theeler, 2010). By the healthy life style with regular physical activity eating a healthy diet, practicing relaxation techniques, stress free environment and adequate amounts of sleep may be helpful to a person in coping up with migraine

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