Show Migraine Headaches Bring Students Life to Screeching Halt Nina K Brown Contributor THE familiar expression Not now Ive I've got a headache doesn't only apply to the tired husband or wife anymore The saying has become more prevalent among Americans of all different occupations Statistics indicate that the common headache is Americas America's leading cause of time lost from work and school My life comes to a screeching screeching screeching screech screech- ing halt when a headache comes on said Randy Brown an electronics technology major at It gets so bad at times I get sick to my stomach At that point homework is over All I can cando cando cando do is reach for the Tylenol and go goto goto goto to bed for three or four hours Brown isn't the only one who reaches for a pain reliever It is estimated that Americans spend more than 4 billion Americans suffer from recurring headaches and 16 to 18 million suffer from migraines Although stress is one of the main causes of headaches there are certain foods believed to trigger trigger trigger trig trig- ger migraine headaches such as bananas ripened cheese and chocolate When desperation strikes and pain relievers dont don't work history reports that in ancient Egypt a treatment was used by eating a combination tion of wormwood coriander juniper and opium If its it's any comfort to headache sufferers the American Association for the Study of Headache holds an annual annual annual an an- nual meeting to discover any therapeutic advances that might help relieve the pain caused by bya a nagging headache |