What can cause bad migraines or head aches??

Question

What can cause bad migraines or head aches??

Answer 1

Different people respond to different migraine triggers, but the most common include:

Dietary factors (irregular meal patterns, missing meals, eating sweets or starchy foods, too much caffeine)

Sleep disturbances (irregular sleep patterns, too much or too little sleep)

Emotional factors (excitement, anger, fear, anxiety, stress letdown)

Environmental factors (weather changes, bright or glaring lights, loud noise, strong odors)

Alcohol (wine, champagne, beer, liquors)

Food additives (MSG and nitrites that are found in pepperoni, luncheon meats, and hot dogs)

Hormone cycles or changes (menstruation, oral contraceptives, estrogen replacement)

personally for me it is chocolate & my menstural cycle!

Answer 2

chocoalte

lack of water

computer screens

too much sunlight.

heat

Answer 3

chocolate

wine

tv/computer screens and...

CHILDREN!

Answer 4

banging my head against the wall does it for me!

Answer 5

My guy had migraines as a child I think he inherited it from his Father who also had them.  If he was upset he would have a migraine almost immediately, i remember when his brother died we were in the mall when he got the call.  He went 'blind' white out within a minute or 2 and I literally had to hold his hand and lead him out of the mall and get him to his Dad's house so he could sleep in a cool dark place until it passed. He always got the blindness before the pain.

Answer 6

Most of the things other posters have mentioned but eye strain can also bring on bad hedaches or migraine.  It is always worth seeing an Optician and getting your eyes tested.  If you don't already wear glasses there is a possibility that you may need to.

Answer 7

sometimes if you tie your hair back to tight it causes tension on your brain causing it to have migraines or head aches. i used to have them and i think it was because of that. hope this helps

Answer 8

Orange flavoured things do it for me.

Answer 9

Anything or nothing can cause them

they're genetic

i suffer really bad with them. they just come on me out of the blue

my neurologist told me they were benign and theres no cure all they can do is put u on medication to ease the pain or reduce the amount of times u get them

u shud go the docs if they are bad.

things that can cause them are the Pill, chocolate, and really strong flavoured food, perfumes, aerosols... etc all the smelly stuff, lookin at the computer or tv too long

oh and hangovers lol

Answer 10

Orange food colourings give me migraines and not all are artificial some are natural, so I tend to avoid anything that is orange or yellow.

Answer 11

Stress, Caffeine, too  much sugar,  bad diet.  I only had one time in my life when I had migraines and it was caused by stress.

Answer 12

nything majr frm stress , arguements, too much thinking, panic attacks, to silly things like on the computer in the dark depends, some ppl actually have an illness and will have them through majority of their life,

heard it also runs in tune with ur menstral cycle but i aint too sure on that, womens thing

also bad thunderstorms do it to me!  

Answer 13

quite a few foods such as chocolate, Marmite.       Caffeine. Stress,

Hypertension, some odours.