You often hear of friends or family complaining about their nasty headaches called migraines, but do you really know what it is? Often, people confuse regular headaches from migraine headaches, which are two different things. Unlike regular headaches, migraines usually last for a few hours, or in some cases a few days, and is characterized by a headache concentrated on only one side of the head.
The search for things which might trigger a migraine is a continuing battle for those people hard to stay away from the debilitating pain which follows the onset of a migraine attack. Stress is perhaps the most famous of all migraine headache triggers and those people who suffer from this neurological condition try hard to either avoid stress or to mitigate the effects as much as they can. Other triggers to steer clear of are chocolate, alcohol, nicotine, and nuts.
Nearly everyone will suffer a headache (or several) throughout their lives which do not have some sort of underlying medical condition causing the pain. These headaches are Migraine, Tension and Cluster.