Hi,
How are you? There are certain food, beverages, and additives that can trigger migraine headache such as aged cheese and other tyramine-containing foods like red wine, alcoholic beverages, and some processed meats; alcohol; food additives like nitrates; cold foods; peanuts, peanut butter, other nuts and seeds; smoked or dried fish; certain fresh fruits including ripe bananas, citrus fruits, papaya, red plums, raspberries, kiwi, pineapple; dried fruits ; caffeine found in chocolate and cocoa; beverages such as coffee, tea and colas; also found in certain medications and aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. Identification of your headache triggers will help you avoid recurrences.
Try to relax and de-stress before going to bed. If you still can not sleep, inform your doctor about this for proper management. Take care and do keep us posted.
Do this anulon vilom pranayam and it will help the headache and the sleep problem.
Build up your timing gradually.If you feel tired or dizzy, stop and resume after one minute.Drink warm water and stop cold drinks.Come back to report your progress.
Anulom Vilom –
Close your right nostril with thumb and deep breath-in through left nostril
then – close left nostril with two fingers and breath-out through right nostril
then -keeping the left nostril closed deep breath-in through right nostril
then - close your right nostril with thumb and breath-out through left nostril.
This is one cycle of anulom vilom.
Repeat this cycle for 15 to 20 minutes twice a day.
Children under 15 years – do 5 to 10 minutes twice a day.
You can do this before breakfast/lunch/dinner or before bedtime or in bed.Remember to take deep long breaths into the lungs.You can do this while sitting on floor or chair or lying in bed.