The greater occipital nerve is the largest of the three, and courses from the cervical spine through several muscle layers that include the splenius capitus as well as the trapezius muscles. There are three occipital nerves that we know contribute to migraine headaches. There are several sets of nerves that can be troublesome here, but in particular, it is most often the occipital nerves that are problematic during stressful times. This is because the nerves that run through the muscles of your neck, particularly the ones that manifest stress, get irritated, inflamed, and compressed when the tissue around them tightens up. When neck muscles tighten up for any reason, during sleep or waking hours, the opportunity for a migraine headache trigger increases dramatically.
When you have a bad dream, your stress causes your neck muscles to get tight as a physical symptom of your perceived distress. When you sleep with your head in a bad position, your neck tenses up as it fights to control your head and return it to a more comfortable spot.
Have you ever woken up with a headache because you “slept wrong”? Same thing. And most importantly, your muscles get tight. Patients do these things because they often work, and they consciously know that by relaxing and reducing stress, it is less likely that they will experience migraine pain.īut what if you are asleep? A bad dream can come along and while you are asleep, all of the symptoms of excessive stress can occur. Acupuncture, meditation, anti-depressants, and beta blockers are all used by migraine patients to reduce and avoid stress. Many migraine patients go about extensive measures to reduce stress and to avoid stressful situations. Stress brings along a great many reasons for us to feel like a migraine would be related- high blood pressure, emotional worrying and tight muscles. Many of us have long known that stress is a big migraine trigger. I’m thinking that the egg came before the chicken rather than the other way around.
Her thought was that the dreams were a preview of sorts and that the process of the onset of a migraine caused a restless night of sleep before the pain hit in the morning. She reported that she knows a migraine is coming on when she has bad and vivid dreams the night before. Ever have that dream where you are in crazy Los Angeles traffic and need to be somewhere but can’t get there and then… you wake up to a migraine? Out in the desert outside of Phoenix or Las Vegas and it’s crazy hot and you cant get cool or water and you wake up to a migraine?Ī few days ago I saw a social media post where a woman was discussing the night before a migraine.
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