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Migraines are horrible to get under normal circumstances, it’s evn worse when you’re pregnant.

Here we will look at migraine triggers, keeping a migraine diary to help identify your trigger and finally avoiding the migraine triggers.

You can reduce or stop your pregnancy migraine with these three simple steps.

1. Migraine Triggers

Sometimes it seems that migraines happen for no apparent reason. However, something tends to trigger migraines even though it doesn’t seem like it at the time. Triggers can be different things fo different people.

Foods such as cheese, chocolate, citrus fruits and foods containing tyramine (an additive). Drinks such as red wine, tea and coffee.

Not enough sleep or too much sleep, being tired, irregular meals, stressful situations or even relaxation after a stressful time, bright lights or flashing lights, high noise levels, strong smells and somtimes the weather.

2. Migraine Diary

To try and understand what triggers your migraine you can use a migraine diary to log when they occur.

Record details such as date and time of migraine, food and drink you have consumed, any medicines you have taken, your sleeping pattern, when you are feeling tired, activities you have been doing. You can also log how bad you feel each migraine is.

It can often be a combination of different factors that causes you to have a migraine.

3. Avoid the Triggers

A pattern should emerge that will indicate the cause or causes of the migraines. You can then remove these factors from your life. You should continue to complete your diary, recording the improvements and celebrating your success.