Do you take vitamins? New information shows that for some people, the addition of Vitamin B-2 can ease or even eliminate migraines.
Other non-prescription remedies include magnesium, Coenzyme Q10, and the herbs feverfew and butterbur. Since every body is different, what works for one may not work for another, but since migraines are so debilitating, giving these safe and natural remedies a try seems like a good idea.
And here's something else well worth trying: A water filter.
My Mother suffered from migraines most of her life, and often lost days at a time to the pain - and the after-effects of the medications she took to ease the pain. Her doctors didn't offer any solutions except those heavy-duty pain killers that left her too groggy to function.
Then she moved to Arizona for the winter to get my Grandmother out of the cold weather. And since the water in Arizona wasn't so good, they installed a water filter in the house. And the migraines stopped almost immediately.
When she came back home for the summer, the headaches started again, so they installed another water filter and they went away.
This was a standard under-the-sink installation which at that time cost about $29. I suppose they're $129 now, but worth it even if you don't suffer from migraines. It's good to get the contaminates out of your water as a preventative health measure. The filter she used was the charcoal one - "for taste and odor" is what it says on the label.
We have no idea what was in the water to cause the migraines, because it happened everywhere. City water both in Arizona and Washington and spring water in Idaho all gave her migraines if they weren't filtered. Perhaps it was really the charcoal - and filtering the water through it gave her body a nutrient that it needed to prevent the pain. It didn't matter - what mattered was that she no longer suffered from those terrible headaches.
She always knew when it was time to change the filter, because she'd start to feel the onset of a headache.
Of course we wished we'd known sooner, but I'll always be thankful for that accidental discovery.
If you have migraines, try these simple remedies. You might even be able to toss your pain pills!
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