I tend to get migraines occasionally. For me the trigger is stress. So if I can try to avoid stress, I wouldn't get migraines as quickly. Sadly, in modern life

I tend to get migraines occasionally. For me the trigger is stress. So if I can try to avoid stress, I wouldn't get migraines as quickly. Sadly, in modern life it's sometimes hard to avoid stress. Maybe 5 years ago, to treat my migraines, my girlfriend advices me to visit a massage therapist in Pattaya, as he's helped many people, Thai and foreigner, to get rid of migraines. I had a message session at his shop (including a lot of neck and head massages) and he gave me some herbal medicine to eat for 1 or 2 months. Afterwards, didn't have migraines for a couple of years. But the migraines came back, I think about 2 years ago. I might visit the message therapist again in the future if we plan to visit Pattaya (we live in Chiang Mai province, so it's like 800 km away). I know of a girl in our village who also had a lot of migraines. She visited some kind of Chinese medicine doctor in Chiang Mai. He made some small holes in the head, blood would go outside. Not sure how many sessions the girl got, but from my understanding her migraines are gone now. My migraines are usually as follows: - usually lasts for around a day - sometimes one side of the brain (temple area) is very painful (like a drill inside), sometimes both sides - arteries around the area in brain where is pain are visibly thick - pain in head & neck area, not so much in rest of body - sensitive to light Showering in hot water helps relieve the pain a bit, my guess is because it might improve blood flow. I tend to take hot showers a couple of times a day during migraine attacks. Other things that seem to relieve a bit are ginger tea (fresh ginger), tiger balm on pain area in head & head and neck messages.