Migraine neuralgia - symptoms, treatment
migrainous neuralgia( histamine cephalalgia, cluster headache beam, ciliary neuralgia) - boring character sided headache which is localized in the orbital - frontal area and is accompanied by rhinorrhea, ptosis, miosis and lacrimation. According to statistics, about 80% of patients have headache episodes for one to two months, after which a remission period lasts from five to ten months. Men are sick more often than women.
The causes of this disease of modern medicine still unknown
Symptoms
Complete absence of prodromal symptoms. Unilateral pain with possible irradiation in the neck, ear and jaw arise and disappear completely suddenly. Painful sensations are accompanied by conjunctivitis , hypersalivation, rhinorrhea, vascular injection, intense lacrimation. Patients experience a sensation of blood rush to the upper torso;The face becomes hyperemic or pale. Headaches almost always reach extreme degrees: patients scream, rush. Attacks occur several times a day and last from five minutes to two hours. A series of "bundle" pain lasts from a few days to several months. Pain series alternate with long intervals of complete well-being. Migraine neuralgia, unlike migraine, is repeated several times a day, and also occurs and ends suddenly. The duration of the pain crisis with concomitant trigeminal neuralgia is less than two minutes, and the attack itself provokes cooling, talking or eating.
migrainous neuralgia must be distinguished from the temporal arteritis, trigeminal neuralgia, syndrome Raeder and migraine
Treatment
To combat the attacks of severe migraine neuralgia used drugs glucocorticoids( Prednisolone 20 - 30 mg daily) and lithium carbonate( 600 - 700 mg per day).The combination of antidepressants( amitriptyline coaxil) with a-adrenoblockers( anaprilin) proved to be the most effective. The greatest effect is achieved with combined treatment: taking medications + courses of hypnotherapy and auto-training.
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