Basilar Migraine

Basilar migraine

        The basilar migraine is a quite unusual form of headache which includes vital auras, vertigo and other not so common headache signs. Also named as the basilar artery migraine, it can also include severe and frightening signs.

       The pain of a basilar migraine is different from the common migraines. The pain is severe and intense, thrilling in the back of the head. It can include also symptoms such as severe vertigo which means that you have the feeling that the room spins, you have difficulty in trying to walk and most often you may experience visual disorders.

       When we refer to visual disturbances, we refer to almost everything from blurred sight to even blindness. This is happening due to the fact that basilar artery, the place where is occurring, is placed in the back of the head. The basilar artery gives blood and oxygen at the back of the brain, where the centers of the sight are placed. And if you experience a problem in this field it will surely affect your sight.

       There are also some other usual migraine signs which may also happen like nausea or vomiting or the light or the sound bother you. There are also some not quite common symptoms like convulsion eye movements, resounding in the ears and unconsciousness. The vertigo quite usual and can be disabled.

       The basilar migraine may emphasize the risk of a stroke. Aneurysm is an artery outpouching. Once caught, the aneurysms are usually looked with imaging like the angiogram with the help of which you can take a better sight at the aneurysms. In these cases, an operation is very good to be done for cutting it when it gets bigger. Generally, for the cerebral aneurysms the limit is of 10 mm even though some specialists said that they can do the surgery on a tiny cerebral aneurysms if the patient experiences neurological signs.

       If you ask for medical advice and you present the symptoms of basilar migraine, you should prepare yourself for a series of tests to exclude the stroke, due to the fact that basilar migraine has the same symptoms as a stroke.

       These tests will probably include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or a computed tomography (CT) immediately at the brain and possibly a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) for also checking the arteries of the brain. This would not only discover if there is a stroke but can also discover an aneurysm. An entire examination should be performed only if it is necessary. The examination can include vertigo testing and also hearing. If the specialist have his suspicions about some possible convulsions which sometimes are accompanied by vertigo or headache, it is indeed necessary an electroencephalography (EEG). This is a test for looking at the electric waves in the brain and includes wearing some electrodes on the scalp and turning your hair in a total mess.

Basilar migraine treatment

       Once, the stroke is excluded, the treatment quite simple. If your headache disabled and this happens several times in a month, then you must start an every day therapy for some time, maybe several months or even a year. If an attack of basilar migraine does occur, most persons can manage it well with a dose of pain killers.

       It is important to know that new treatments and researches are always discovered. This problem may change in the future, due to more researches on basilar migraine. A little advice: if the symptoms above do not seem or are not such as the symptoms you experience, you should read more about the different forms or types of migraines and ask for medical care.