{"id":841,"date":"2019-02-11T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T11:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2023-03-05T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T16:56:08","slug":"tension-headaches-cure-medication-or-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Is the Safest First Step, Relieve Suffering From Headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/qtq80-BuTM70-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/qtq80-BuTM70-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/qtq80-BuTM70-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/qtq80-BuTM70-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/qtq80-BuTM70-90x60.jpeg 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tension headaches can be as recurrent and as disabling as a migraine headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old definition of chronic tension headaches used to be greater than 15 a month, we now recommend those with greater than 10 tension headaches a month consider medication for suppression if other strategies have not worked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For women and girls puberty, pregnancy, and menopause are the times that headaches worsen, even if you don&#8217;t suffer from menstrual migraines and may want to consider a plan for those times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PMS and PMDD can cause headaches and treatment of the underlying condition is as important as treating the individual headaches that occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Menstrual cycle time for women can lead to simple dehydration which can cause a tension headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normalizing sleep, diet, and exercise is the best first strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meditation, yoga, cognitive behavioral therapy, relaxation, and stress management are the best ways, the healthiest, and very important even for those who use medication for controlling headaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tricyclic antidepressant medication amitryptiline has the best data for suppression medication, but some of the other antidepressants work for prevention of tension headaches too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seizure medications that work to prevent migraines can work to prevent chronic or frequent tension headaches as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are accepting new clients at Women&#8217;s Health Practice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tension headaches can be as recurrent and as disabling as a migraine headache. The old definition of chronic tension headaches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[67,353,108,146],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-physiology","category-guys-guide-to-gyno","tag-headache","tag-meditation","tag-pms","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}