![]() In the early 1990s, a new type of sleep-breathing problem called upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) was described. What you will feel is not feeling refreshed when you wake up in the morning, or feeling like you only slept for 2-3 hours. In most cases, you won’t even realize that you’re waking up. Essentially, you can’t stay in deep sleep. However, it does lead to more frequent arousals and sleep fragmentation. These breathing pauses usually aren’t long enough to be called apneas (at least 10 second pauses), and usually don’t lead to lowered oxygen levels. This is why most people with this type of anatomy can’t sleep on their backs. When you go into deep sleep, since your muscles will relax, you’ll stop breathing and wake up to turn over to your side or stomach. This leads to dental crowding, which narrows the space behind your tongue, especially if you lay flat on your back. I talk about how most modern humans have smaller jaws and facial skeletons due to a radical change in our diets and lifestyles. One anatomic feature that I see all migraineurs have in common is the very small nature of their upper airways, especially in the space behind the tongue and in the nose. This is called vestibular variant of migraine. If you have a migraine attack in your inner ears, you’ll feel dizzy, lightheaded, feel fullness, or have hearing loss or ringing. It’s been suggested that children who suffer from chronic abdominal pain actually suffer from migraines. This can present as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, or bloating. You can also have migraines in your stomach. Many people are placed on oral antibiotics empirically, when there’s no bacterial infection. In fact, it’s been shown that the vast majority of chronic sinus headache and pain sufferers actually have a variation of a migraine, with normal CAT scans. Any time the nerves in any part of your body becomes oversensitive or overly excitable, then you’ll experience symptoms that are specific to that part of the body.įor example, if the nerve endings in your sinuses are suddenly extra sensitive, then you’ll feel pain, pressure, nasal congestion, and post-nasal drip. Recently, neurologists have expanded the definition of a migraine attack. Notice that classically, migraines get better with sleep. The classic migraine headache is described as a one-sided, debilitating, pounding, intense headaches that’s associated with nausea, vomiting, light or sound sensitivity. If you’ve read my articles or listened to my teleseminars, I can make a convincing argument that migraine sufferers all have some variation of a sleep-breathing disorder, of which only a small fraction have obstructive sleep apnea. It’s commonly known that sleep deprivation can cause or aggravate migraines, but what’s usually assumed is that migraine sufferers are breathing well at night. Michelle Bachmann’s recent revelation that she suffers from migraines brings up an important point that most doctors and the lay public don’t appreciate: the importance of proper breathing at night.
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