{"id":173217,"date":"2023-10-01T02:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/migraine-headaches-what-are-they-and-how-do-you-treat-them"},"modified":"2023-10-01T02:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:23:47","slug":"migraine-headaches-what-are-they-and-how-do-you-treat-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/migraine-headaches-what-are-they-and-how-do-you-treat-them","title":{"rendered":"Migraine headaches: What are they and how do you treat them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/migraine-headaches-what-are-they-and-how-do-you-treat-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first time it happened, I was in a high school physics class. Suddenly, I couldn\u2019t read half of the board. A crack zig-zagged through my vision, obscuring my teacher\u2019s notes. \u201cHuh,\u201d I thought. \u201cThis can\u2019t be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My classmate walked me to the school nurse, who called my mom. Pain rippled from the back of my neck to my forehead. I\u2019d had headaches before, but not like this. \u201cAh, your first migraine,\u201d Mom said. \u201cWelcome to the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For nearly a billion people worldwide, migraine attacks disrupt work, vacation and school. They can be triggered by stress, weather changes, hormone shifts, missed meals or sleep changes \u2014 in other words, just about anything. These reoccurring headaches often spur pain on one side of the head. They can last a few hours or a few days, and they can cause nausea along with sensitivity to noises and light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time it happened, I was in a high school physics class. Suddenly, I couldn\u2019t read half of the board. A crack zig-zagged through my vision, obscuring my teacher\u2019s notes. \u201cHuh,\u201d I thought. \u201cThis can\u2019t be good.\u201d My classmate walked me to the school nurse, who called my mom. Pain rippled from the back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}