Early Migraine Treatment

If you suffer from migraines, do they seem hard to control? It could all be in the timing.

It does seem to all come down to the timing, at least when you decide to finally treat a migraine and not just wait to see if it will get better.

Millions of Americans suffer from migraines. These headaches can range from minor inconveniences to ones that can be debilitating and long lasting. The problem tends to happen when a migraine patient is deciding whether the headache is big enough to treat "yet." If it gets better on its own great, but if it gets worse it's probably going to be even harder to treat later on.

That's also the finding of a new study presented by the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers found that the best hope of making sure the migraine didn't get worse was to treat it within the first 20 minutes of symptoms. They also found that after 4 hours, the symptoms tend to spiral out of control to the point where the migraine starts affecting the entire body and gets even harder to treat.

According to them, a lot of migraine sufferers wait because they have been told to just ride it out for a while and not take the medicines unless absolutely necessary. But they are recommending making sure that decision is made sooner than later once symptoms start.