Migraine

Hi,

At my next doctor's appt I am going to see a person to teach me Heartmath and I was just wondering if anyone has heard of this. Also, if it helped or not with your migraines.

From my understanding it is a stress managment meditation type thing that involves regulating your heart, thereby lessening stress. I know that it uses a heart monitor and breathing techniques. Not much else.

Since my b/p rises everytime I get a migraine, I thought it can't hurt to try this technique.

I would love to know if anyone else has heard of this. Thanks

Dar

Nope but I'm interested in hearing how it goes for you.

Keep us posted?

Is this a type of biofeedback?

Yeah, I was thinking this sounds like a type of biofeedback...

Hi,

Yeah, it does sound like a type of bio-feedback, now that I think of it. I have never done any type of bio-feedback, so I am interested to see how it all works. I will let you know how it goes. I don't go until the 9th of Sept.

Have any of you done bio-feedback? Did it help at all? just curious

Dar

i've done it, and it helped to relax me.......every lil bit tends to help in some way or another...by reducing stress it could reduce your migraines...or at least turn down the volume....if it helps your migraines, then do a happy dance

Here's a prior forum thread on biofeedback:

biofeedback

Thanks,

Perpetual-Thanks for responding, If it helps my migraines in any way, even to relax and get my b/p down, I will do a special happy dance

Hey Nut-Thanks for the link, I read through it and it sounds like something that would be helpful in my toolbox.

I will let everyone know how it goes!!

You all are so great!!

Dar

Dar,

I'm just catching up to this post and just wanted to wish you good luck at your appointment! I can't wait to hear all about it!

How did your appointment go? Has it been helpful? I hope so!

Diana

yes, I would be intersted to hearing about this too. Is it the same as bio-feedback, or something different?

Hope it goes well!

Hi All,

I just wanted to check in and let you know I finally got started with the heartmath. We were right, it is bio-feedback. It is used to lower stress and control breathing.

Basically, I was hooked to a computer by a heart monitor on my ear. Then it measured my psychophysoilogical coherence, ie mind, body, and emotional changes (which at the beginning wasn't very good).

After you are hooked in sort speaking, you focus on you heart, then breathing using rythemes and waves on the computer. Then you focus on happy thoughts.

It was pretty interesting to watch at the end my heart rate was down and I was more in coherence. I know have to check with my insurance to see how many sessions I can go to.

She also does other biofeedback methods and is a liscense MF counsler, so all in all I am willing to give it a try. I am hoping it will help me lower my b/p when I get my migraines and maybe handle the pain easier. Well, there you have it

Dar

Interesting, Dar!

Let us know how it keeps going- I know that I can calm myself down and lower my pain level using deep breathing and peaceful thoughts... It would be cool to know what they're doing in addition to what I already have in my toolbox!

Dar,

Very cool indeed! How many sessions do they recommend before being able to control it all on your own?

Please keep us posted, this is really interesting to learn about!