Headache Types ...
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Headaches are common but usually do not represent a serious illness. Even when headaches do not have a serious cause, and they are quite painful, they can disrupt your day-to-day life.
There are many different causes of headache and the pain in different types of headache varies in intensity, location, and duration.
An important feature that helps distinguish different headache types is the quality of the pain: whether it is sharp, dull, constant, intermittent, or pounding.
Additional symptoms may accompany the headache, such as dizziness, numbness or weakness, changes in vision, difficulty with balance, eye, ear or cold symptoms and even fever
All the above factors help determine the headache type and whether or not it requires emergency treatment. Ultimately, the cause of the headache determines the best treatment.
Headaches can affect anyone, of any race, socioeconomic status, age or gender. Stress and anxiety are reported to trigger many peoples headaches, but others find no apparent reason for theirs.
The most common headache types are known as the tension-type, while the next most most common are called migraine.
What most people consider to be a mild headache is often a tension-type headache or a mix of tension-type and migraine.
A headache is caused by irritation or injury to the pain-sensing structures of the head.
The structures that can sense pain include the scalp, the muscles of the neck and head, major arteries and veins in the head, the sinuses, and the tissues that surround the brain.
Headache may occur when these structures suffer compression, spasm, tension, inflammation, or irritation. The brain has no nerve endings so the brain itself cannot feel pain.
Common headache types ...
The tension-type headache, is thought to be the most common headache type ...
It occurs more often in women than in men. Attacks can be occasional or more frequent.
Symptoms include tight, or pressing, mild to moderate head pain, which may be on both sides of the head.
Migraine is the second most common headache type ...
These are classified according to whether or not they include an aura, which is a visual disturbance, weakness, or numbness that occurs 1-2 hours before the onset of the headache.
Migraines with this aura are called classic, while those without are called common.
Migraine is more common in women than men. It is often one-sided, throbbing and of moderate to severe intensity. A migraine headache may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light.
Cluster headache is a less common headache that occurs in men more often than women ...
With a cluster headache, there is intense pain that is generally on one side and located around the eye or temple.
A bloodshot eye, tearing, runny nose, and eyelid drooping or swelling on the same side of the face may also occur.
The headaches tend to occur in clusters, sometimes daily or every few days over a period of weeks to months.
After such a"cluster of headaches, there may be symptom-free periods of years before another cluster of headaches occurs.
Research into the mechanisms of various headache types continues, and new theories arise frequently.
Specifically, the causes of the mild tension-type headache are not completely understood and debate continues regarding the cause.
A common theory involves nerve endings in the head that are irritated by tight muscles in the neck, face, and scalp, along with irritation to the arteries and veins nearby. The events that trigger mild headache vary widely among people who get headaches and each person seems to have his or her own pattern.
Common headache triggers
- Stress, before, during, or after menstruation.
- muscle tension in the back and neck
- exhaustion
- hunger
- and medications as many drugs designed to relieve pain can actually cause headache when the drug is stopped after a period of prolonged use.
Carbon monoxide poisoning comes from faulty heaters or stoves that do not have proper exhaust to the outside of the house. If you suspect carbon monoxide poisoning, leave the building immediately and do not return until the levels of carbon monoxide are checked.
If the headaches are recurrent or worse each morning or if more than one person in the household experiences the same type of headache, there may be an excessive level of carbon monoxide in the air.
Consult a doctor about your headache and find out what can be done for pain relief if ...
You have a chronic medical illness such as high blood pressure, heart disease, heart attack or stroke, diabetes, or liver problems.
You are not obtaining relief with over-the-counter pain medications.
You have pain in your face or eyes and you have a very severe headache.
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