Pressure Points For Migraines
Stop Migraine Pain at Home
Do you suffer from migraines?
​Have you tried many things only to be disappointed by the results?
Do the migraines keep returning even after you take medicine?
If you have migraines you know how severely painful they can be. While different people experience different things with migraines nausea, vomiting, dizziness, severe fatigue, depression, neck pain, eye pain, sensitivity to light and sound are all common.
Migraines can even cause some people to stay in bed for several days,
and the missed time from work and life can be draining and depressing.
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​That’s no way to live.
There are solutions.
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Many people with migraines also suffer from lost time from work and with family and friends. Many of my patients report that they feel depression from migraines because they can’t enjoy life with their friends, family, and kids. Migraines stop many people from spending quality time with others during weekends, holidays, or at other times, because the pain is so severe that all they can do is lay in bed with the lights off and hope the pain goes away.
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Besides the excruciating pain, migraines cause some people to lose time from work, and that can have major financial impacts on our lives. The amount of money lost each year for a person who suffers from migraines averages around $5,000. That comes from lost time from work, paying for expensive doctor visits and medications.
With migraines, hope is not a solution!
Migraines are a physical problem resulting from poor blood flow to your brain and problems within your nerves. Medications try to correct this, but often come with side effects or simply don’t work for some people.
Perhaps medications do give you some relief, but the migraines keep returning. It is also common that taking too much medication can even create more headaches. If you have read this far, you probably know that drugs and medications are not the best solution. Perhaps they didn’t work for you for some reason and you are now looking for other solutions.
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An effective way to get relief from migraines that works very well is acupressure. It uses pressure points to release your body’s natural pain-killers called endorphins.
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Endorphins are about 20 - 30 times stronger than morphine, so the effects can be very powerful.
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There are over 20 kinds of endorphins in your body that work to relieve pain in different ways. ​
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Endorphins can be released through pressure points when you know what points to use and how to properly stimulate them.
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Endorphins are also released during exercise, eating, and during sex.
Now this doesn’t mean you can just eat a lot of food or have a lot of sex to stop migraines, although that might provide a little relief for a short time, what we want is long term relief.
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A lot of medical research has been done on endorphins and doctors know that acupuncture and acupressure can effectively reduce and stop migraine pain
in both the short-term and long-term.
This means that you can use pressure points to stop the pain as a migraine is coming on, and often people who know how to use pressure points properly can stop a headache from becoming a full blown migraine.
Pressure points are even so powerful that some people can greatly reduce the pain, or even stop the pain entirely, even if they are in the middle of a full migraine.
Additionally, using pressure points regularly can reduce the pain intensity, duration, and frequency. Acupressure can also help in the long-term by giving long-lasting relief.
Long-Term and Short-Term Benefits of Acupressure
We spoke about how acupressure releases endorphins and that these are even more powerful than morphine and other opiates. This is how acupressure can work so fast at stopping pain, because it releases your body’s natural pain relievers.
In the long-term, pressure points work in different ways to give long-lasting relief.
When acupressure is done frequently enough, it helps to change your nerves and the blood flow to your brain. If you don’t have good blood circulation to your brain, that can cause a headache or migraine, but acupressure works similar to exercise to help improve blood circulation through your body.
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To improve blood flow and circulation, acupressure is a simple method you can use at home to get migraine pain relief.
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Migraines also result when your nerves are too sensitive and hyperactive.
With some migraines your nerves keep firing and tell your head that it has pain. So, one thing that acupressure does, is it reduces the excessive activity of your nerves and also makes your nerves less sensitive to pain signals. I won’t go into all the science of this, but when we increase blood circulation to your head and decrease the activity of your nerves, it helps to give long-lasting benefits.
Acupressure basically works in two ways to stop migraine pain, it improves blood circulation and stops your nerves from being overactive and firing too much.
Case Studies for How Acupressure Has Helped People Like You
Stress Related Migraines for 12 Years
One of my patients had sufferred for migraines for over 12 years and experienced them everyday in the afternoon. This was difficult for him because he had to work to earn a living, but everyday around 3 pm and a couple hours before his work shift ended, he would start to get a migraine. This was going on almost everyday, and especially Monday through Friday when he was at work. When the weekends came, he was so exhausted from working and migraine pain, that he had no energy for his family for doing enjoyable weekend activities.
He felt like the stress of his work was a contributing factor to his pain, because on the weekends the pain was not as bad. However, when he was working the migraine pain would start to creep in as early as 2:30. Then he had to suffer for another 2 or 3 hours through work as the migraine continued to get worse. By 5 or 6 pm when he was getting off work, the pain would be so severe that all he could do was go home and suffer through the pain. He couldn’t cook for his family, he didn’t want to go out to eat - or even eat at all -he didn’t want to do anything because the pain was too bad. He was miserable, and said that the medications used to work, but that he was no longer getting relief. He needed to try something new and came to me as a last resort.
When I started working with him, I suggested we start with acupuncture to get him quick relief. After just one acupuncture session he got very good relief, and I taught him how he could use pressure points on his own when he was at work, or any other time that he needed it. He was also not able to come in for acupuncture as often as I suggested, so it was really important for him to use pressure points on his own.
Within a few days of teaching him some different points, he was able to get benefits on his own, and he said that it was working as well as the acupuncture. At the time, I didn’t even believe that acupressure could work as well acupuncture. However, as we worked together he repeated several times that the acupressure was working just as well as acupuncture. This caused me to take a closer loot at how acupressure works compared to acupuncture, and what I discovered was incredible.
How Acupressure Compares to Acupuncture
There is plenty of evidence showing that acupuncture can be effective for migraines. Many research studies have shown this, and as an acupuncturist of 25 years, I have personally helped thousands of patients with headaches and migraines. I also know that acupuncture works by increasing blood flow and soothing the nerves. Acupuncture works on about 11 different kinds of nerves to stop pain. Some of the nerves that acupuncture works on in the skin and muscles, and where the needles go in are called pressure nerves (pressoreceptors or mechanoreceptors). Notice the word pressure is in the name of these nerves. I thought this was interesting, so I continued to research the matter and found that acupressure, instead of working on 11 different nerves like acupuncture, works on 10 nerves. That is only a difference of one! This is important and I will explain more about this, but first I need to explain something related to this.
Acupuncture and Acupressure for the Nerves and Migraines
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​​When I use acupuncture or acupressure on my patients, one thing I want to do, is stimulate several different kinds of nerves to get the best response. If I only stimulate one kind of nerve, a patient may only get 10% relief. However, if I stimulate 8 different kinds of nerves, then the patient can get 60, 70, 80, 90, or even 100% relief. This means that the more nerves I stimulate with acupuncture or acupressure, the more benefits the patient gets. If I only stimulate two nerves, the patient might get 10 or 20% relief, or maybe even no relief at all. However, by stimulating more nerves, in different ways, or in different areas of the body, we are almost guaranteed success.
Let’s use an analogy with nutirition and diet. Say you have some problem related to what you eat, or don’t eat, and you want to get more healthy by eating well. So, you decide to start a healthy diet. Do you eat only one healthy food like broccoli, or do you eat a variety of healthy foods? Of course you eat a variety, and if you only eat one healthy food, it wouldn’t be healthy, and you wouldn’t accomplish your goal of eating better. Eating only one healthy food is not enough to be healthy. Similarly, stimulating only one nerve or one pressure point, is often not going to be good enough to get effective migraine relief. However, if you stimulate all 11 nerves, then you will get enough variety in your pressure point diet that it will produce a powerful healing response.
Now, back to acupuncture and acupressure. Getting acupuncture for your migraines is like eating 11 healthy foods for your nerves. Acupressure gives us 10 healthy foods for our nerves, so, it’s one less, but still strong enough to give powerful healing results. With the diet analogy, you can still have a very healthy diet if you miss one food but have a large enough variety of other healthy foods.
Since acupressure stimulates 10 out of the 11 nerves involved in reducing migraine pain, it is almost nearly as powerful as acupuncture.
As I researched this further, I wondered how I could teach my patients to stimulate that one other nerve without using an acupuncture needle. I researched this more for many months and tested various things on my patients, until I found what works, and I’m pleased to say that I found ways to stimulate the other nerve. Therefore, it is possible to reach all 11 nerves with acupressure, but it does require the use of special tools that are easy to use and very affordable. More on that later, but I want to share some more case studies from other clients I have helped using only acupressure.
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2 More Case Studies from Women with Menstrual Migraines
One type of migraine that responds very well to acupressure are menstrual migraines, and if you are a woman you have probably experienced headaches or migraines with your period. This is a very common problem and one that I have helped thousands of women with. I want to share a couple patient stories of women who had migraines connected to their menstrual cycle. The cases are similar but slightly different and demonstrate why it is important for different people to use different pressure points for their migraines.​
The first woman had migraine pain so severe before her periods that it would cause her to miss 3 - 5 days of work each month. This made it very difficult for her with her job and boss, and in addition to suffering from both migraine and menstrual pain, she was also concerned that her boss might fire her because she had to miss work every month.
The pain would start two or three days before her period and get very severe on the first two days of her period. By day 3 it would finally start to decrease, but even on day three, it could be very severe. On the worst days, she would stay in bed all day with terrible pain and she would also suffer from light sensitivity, extreme fatigue, and even nausea and vomiting. During the worst months and days, she would even throw up several times during a day.
The second woman also got severe pain during her period, but the pain would begin after the period started and usually on day two or three. When it started it was not very severe, but by day four or five, and after her period stopped, the pain would get very bad. During this time, she didn’t want to do anything because she had no energy. She would stay in bed all day feeling tired, weak, and “worn out.” She would also get bad dizziness and often felt like she could fall down when she stood up. For this reason, she would often spend all day lying down. She was so fatigued and weak that she could not cook dinner for her family, and she often missed family events and even evenings with her family because she was so weak. Her husband and kids were all very concerned because she wasn’t even able to watch TV with them at night. The light and sound of the TV would make the migraines worse, so she needed to stay in bed and away from her family. When we spoke about this, she was very sad and cried because she felt like the migraines were “ruining her life.”
When I taught this woman about pressure points she started using them immediately, but told me that she felt the points in her ears were too sensitive and she didn’t like stimulating them. I had her work with the points on her hands and fingers instead, and she felt about 50% relief within the first two days of using them. She also reported that she was able to cut her medication in half, and one day she didn’t even need to use it. When it was the end of her period, and when the pain was usually at its worst, I made some recommendations to her about her diet and taught her some new points to use. I also gave her some other practical tips besides just using pressure points. To her surprise, the pain vanished and was at such a low level that she hardly noticed it. She also told me that she forgot about the pain until I asked her about it, and when she felt in to see what level it was at, she reported it as a 1 or 2 on a scale of 1 - 10.
In the first few days of working with her, we were able to take her pain from a 8 - 10 down to a 1 or 2. She also reported that her energy was normal and that she was able to do the things she wanted and needed to do, like take care of her family. I went on to work with this woman for 3 months and by the end of the third month she was able to stop the pain at its earliest sign. She said that she felt some fatigue before her period started but that the pain would only get as high as a 1. She was even able to stop what little pain she had by simply using the pressure point techniques I taught her.
​What about the other woman?
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The other woman I mentioned at the beginning of this section, also had menstrual migraines but hers would start a couple of days before her period and then get worse during days 1 -3 of menstruation. Remember that this woman would also miss work because the pain was so bad, and she also experienced extreme weakness, fatigue, and even vomiting. For this woman, I did not start with points on her hands. Instead, I taught her how to press a few points on her feet using a special acupressure tool. I also recommended that she take a combination of herbs that I prescribed her in a pill form.
After the first treatment, she reported that the pain which was usually an 8 - 10, was only a 4 or 5, and it was manageable enough that she was able to go to work. She also said she took some pain medication, which usually didn’t help, but this time when she took it, the pain dropped to a 2 or 3 and at times she didn’t feel the pain at all.
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I continued to work with her during the month, and when she didn’t have pain, to prepare her body for the next period. The next month when the pain usually started, we did an acupressure session together to prepare her body, and when the pain typically started, and would usually be at an 8 or 10 level, was now only at a pain level of 3. I recommended that she also increase the amount of herbs she was taking, and that she use the acupressure tool more frequently. As her period started, the pain was around a 2 or 3, and never got worse as it usually did. She was very grateful for this improvement.
By the third month, she reported that the pain was very mild and only occurred for a brief time. She said if she felt the pain coming on she would use the acupressure pen, and it would stop it within minutes. During the third month, the pain only briefly reached a level of 2 for a few minutes but quickly subsided when she used the techniques I taught her. In addition to the migraine pain stopping, she also had less period pain and it was no longer severe as it was before.
Over the course of the next 3 months, I continued to follow through with her progress and she felt as if she was always getting improvement. The pain never returned to its original level of 8 or 10 before we started working together, and she was easily able to stop it by pressing on the points that we found worked best for her.