{"id":5701,"date":"2012-04-24T11:32:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2012-04-24T11:32:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T18:32:39","slug":"oh-my-aching-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5701","title":{"rendered":"Oh, My Aching Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4982\" title=\"userpic=headache\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicheadache.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"72\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>For a change, I have some lunchtime news chum to share&#8211;all relating to migraine headaches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Preventing Migraines<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/boostershots\/la-heb-migraine-prevention-guidelines-20120423,0,1438243.story\" target=\"_blank\">New guidelines have been issued regarding using drugs as migraine preventatives<\/a>. To my eye, there&#8217;s not much new here, except perhaps some new drugs. I&#8217;ve known for a while that Topamax, Depakote, and propranolol can work as preventatives; I&#8217;ve avoided the first two because they can also slow down your thinking processes (Topamax is nicknamed Dopamax for a reason). Still, the list appears to contain some new recommendations. It doesn&#8217;t mention that muscle relaxants may also be useful. I know, with respect to migraines, I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones: I don&#8217;t get aura (only rarely), I don&#8217;t have light sensitivity, and I don&#8217;t have to go hide in a dark room (well, only very rarely). However, mine are hemispherical (just on one side) and frequent (about every 2-3 weeks).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brain Freeze.<\/strong> An interesting study has shown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2012\/04\/23\/cause-brain-freeze-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\">a connection between brain freeze and migraines<\/a>. Brain freeze occurs as the blood vessels going to the brain dilate and constrict in order to prevent cold blood from going to the brain; this sensitivity to this is the reason that migraine sufferers are more likely to get brain freeze.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Migraines and Racism<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s another interesting study. As I noted above, one of the migraine preventatives is propranolol (it is also a common treatment for high blood pressure). <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/feeling-racist-blood-pressure-pill-propranolol-may-open-223450211.html\" target=\"_blank\">A recent study has shown that people who take propranolol are less likely to be racist<\/a>. A new Oxford University research study found that Propranolol, which works to combat high blood pressure, anxiety, migraines, and a number of heart ailments, affects the same part of the central nervous system that regulates subconscious attitudes on race.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong><em>Presumed Innocent<\/em> (Marcia Ball): You Make Me Happy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a change, I have some lunchtime news chum to share&#8211;all relating to migraine headaches: Preventing Migraines. New guidelines have been issued regarding using drugs as migraine preventatives. To my eye, there&#8217;s not much new here, except perhaps some new drugs. I&#8217;ve known for a while that Topamax, Depakote, and propranolol can work as preventatives; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5701\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","tag-headache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}