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Identifying your Migraine Triggers

How to identify triggers
This is much more complicated than it seems due to the fact some peoples migraine attacks strike without being triggered. Also seeing how a trigger may not cause an attack every time, which may confuse the situation even more. Although most people have triggers so by identifying your triggers and the factors of your triggers you will better understand what you can do to help improve your chances on preventing a migraine from a strike or attack. To do this you need to go through this list of triggers and factors and simply cut out some of the suspected triggers. Example, if you drink a lot of sodas with aspartame which is one of the many triggers, try to cut it out of your daily diet and wait it out to see if it helps improve your migraine attacks. Seeing how the triggers and factor list has many different thing, and in most cases people have several triggers, this may take trail and error to key out the certain triggers that help you. When triggers occur on their own they may or may not bring on an attack, but when they occur together, you will most likely get a migraine

Some people find that they have periods with no occurrences between migraines. These periods mat last days, weeks or even months. During these periods, the body is in a less sensitive state, and during these periods even a combination of triggers will trigger a migraine attack.

Therefore triggers may be falsely identified. In example, during the first stage of an attack, you may be experiencing cravings for some of the food triggers such as sweets. Just sau you eat the certain food your craving and then you get a migraine, you automatically assume that that certain food is identified as your trigger, when in fact you started to get your migraine before you even fulfilled that certain food craving classified as a trigger. Therefore the best way to identify your triggers is to keep a detailed diary.

Keeping a diary and what should be in it
your factors of a trigger can influence an attack up to 48 hours before your migraine occurs or even starts. To keep a migraine diary during these time periods can help you better identify and understand the triggers that cause your attacks. By having a migraine diary you can overlook each attack and the things that occurred before each attack by the patterns in your diary such as:

Time you get up
Daily activities such as work, exercise, travel, etc.
Environment such as weather atmosphere

Consumption of food and drinks
Daily bowl movements
Your moods such as stress, depression, etc.
If you’re a woman keep a record of your menstrual cycle

Every headache even the mildest ones and the symptoms that occurred

The medications you take and why

Just anything that may take part in your migraines including change in your lifestyle.