What is the difference between a migraine and sinus pain? Very generally, with regards migraines, there will be a history of repeated headaches with a certain aura just before the onset of the migraine and often a sore neck too. Generally a migraine will come from twitchy blood vessels. You may feel a sense of light headedness, or perhaps a need to urinate just before the onset of a migraine.
For migraine often what will help will be a hot shower stream to the back of the neck. Let this persist for several minutes and slowly and gently move the head from one side to the other. This helps the blood vessels to relax and become less twitchy.
They can be pounding in nature and cause a distortion of vision, even some are not able to speak with the onset of a really bad migraine. Interestingly, the author of Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, during a really bad migraine saw the characters of the story.
Migraines are very often one-sided. They can be induced by a change in the weather, or maybe certain foods that have been indulged such as red wine or strong cheeses for some people. Any alcohol can bring on a migraine particularly upon over-indulgence but some people do not suffer after drinking vodka.
Sinuses may be blocked due to a vacuum which causes pain and discomfort. There are a number of anti-inflammatory products on the market however that do work well in this case. Prednisone and Aleve are two of those. There are other products such as Clear-Ease that acts as a lozenge and will melt when sucked in the mouth. This product contains papain and bromelain and it helps to ease any vacuum in the sinus area.
Some other points to note here are:
– if your sinus pain comes on due to drinking red wine its a migraine
– if you are woken in the night with a throbbing headache its a migraine
– if you are suffering from local tenderness, yellow discharge, a stuffy nose then this is sinus trouble
– if the pain lasts for a few days then this would tend to mean sinus issues as a migraine would be shorter in duration
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