Headaches and head pain are a common ailment therefore they often go undiagnosed. Unless the head pain becomes a chronic condition, most people do not even seek out medical advice or council regarding the headache. When you are seeking answers about the headaches, you are experiencing it is important to correctly describe the symptoms, sensations, location and level of pain to your doctor adequately in order to help your doctor make an informed diagnosis.
Don’t Be Tense
I get these a lot. Tension headaches are the most common types of headaches and have been known to be chronic which would imply that a tension headache develops more than once a month to be considered such. Symptoms for a tension headache are often mild to moderate and described as a tightening around the head. Pressure from a tension headache can be felt in the back of the head, neck and shoulders. Tension headaches typically last thirty minutes and are easily treated with over the counter medicine.
The Big Mama Of Headaches
Migraines are unilateral in that the pain is felt on one side of the head right above the eye. Migraine headaches last for several days and bring with them debilitating symptoms. Migraine symptoms are unique to migraines and if migraine symptoms are known then there is no confusing migraine headaches with any other type of headache. Migraine headache symptoms include:
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Constipation
• Sensitivity to light / sound
• Blurred Vision
• Cognitive Confusion
• Diarrhea
• Throbbing / Pounding Head Pain
A migraine headache is unique due to the way it develops. Migraines change the chemicals in the brain and cause a series of painful symptoms to be let loose as a result. Migraine headaches are developed when the blood vessels in the brain begin to enlarge and release a harmful chemical into the brain to attack the brains arteries. The enlarging of the blood vessels is what spurs on or promotes the painful throbbing / pounding sensations in the head.
Manly Headaches
Cluster headaches are a neurological disease that brings on severe unilateral head pain similar to that of a migraine. Cluster headaches typically effect men more so than women and come on quickly and could last 15 min up to 3 hours. Symptoms associated with cluster headaches can be described as: stabbing electric shocks, burning, pressing, crushing, exploding or shooting pain.
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