Migraine And Blood Vessels ? The Myth!

You have a diagnosis of migraine - What is good? I guess you've been told there is a problem with blood vessels in the head - open or overgrowth, or something similar. 150 years ago, mainly due to the pulsating nature of headaches, it was assumed that the main problem was (expansion or dilation) of blood vessels - and any headache that was / is latent in nature has been diagnosed as migraine throbbing headache and have not been excluded from a diagnosis of migraine - the entity known as tension headache is born! (Despite the lack of evidence, the cause of headache is considered non-pulsatile muscle and / or stress, another hypothesis has been made!) Research has shown that: - the dilation of blood vessels intra ( in) cranial (head) do not occur at all during a migraine headache - if the expansion was the cause of the pain of waiting to see an expansion in all migraine sufferers - but not adequate dilation - vessel intracranial blood continue after headache has disappeared - if the causes of the expansion until the pain the pain of being in the presence of the expansion - but again this is not true - the dilation of blood vessels occurs in response to pain (pain in the forehead experiment was produced by the injection of pain-producing substances) i. e. bread spread pain, and then, without expansion, and then, or leading large amount of recent research has shown that awareness or hyper-excitability of the medulla oblongata is the primary disorder in migraine and led to the expression " migraine brain "... and that consciousness is present continuously, i. e. even when free migraine - confused? But ... triptans are not "(drug specifically designed to interrupt the migraine process) work by reducing the dilation of blood vessels? Well first thought (and assumed in large part) to be the case, but the experiments have shown that triptans decrease awareness of the brainstem. Now, what is this thing called the "trunk". The brainstem is an area in the top of the spinal cord, which receives the data (activity) of the internal structures of the head (including blood vessels), and the structures of the upper neck (ligaments, joints and capsules, and muscles), which are provided by the first three spinal nerves. The brain stem is also influenced by serotonin and a system called diffuse noxious inhibitory control - Do not be overwhelmed by these words - I'll explain this in another place. Now all the information or activity in relation to headaches, headaches and migraines, passes through the brain stem higher centers of the brain where it is interpreted, where decisions are made! The brainstem is a headache that the black box is in the plane - is the final common pathway for all migraine headaches and information. One of the world's leading authorities have suggested that migraine is a treatment "sensory" ie a disorder in which normal and a minimum of information or activity on the head is misunderstood (by the higher brain centers - where all decisions are made) after going through a sensitive core. This basically means that 9% (may be normal and / or minimum?) dilation of blood vessels inside the head that occurs in response to hormonal changes , alcohol, additives in cheese, chocolate and other trigger foods, it is interpreted as being much higher than what is considered normal and the brain's response is to create pain. Is it reasonable to assume that there is a sea of activity that occur in and around inside the skull (head) structures (including blood vessels, teeth, gums, sinuses, meninges, etc.) in all of us, but the difference between women with menstrual migraine who do not have is that their brainstem are sensitive to those in which half a glass of red wine or a small piece of chocolate triggers migraine is the norm and the least misunderstood, after going through a trunk educated? The wealth of information that has led to a fall blood vessels maligned as the cause of pain in migraine - Now the question is "What causes consciousness of the brainstem - the '? Migraine Brain "Stay" in the Listening ...! 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