These type of headaches are caused by tightening or tension in the muscles in the head, neck and scalp. They can be brought on by stress, noise, fumes and even long periods of watching TV or computer screens. Chronic tension headaches are much less common. Migraine is the most disruptive type of primary headache. It is often marked by a throbbing pain that is moderate to severe. It can last four to 72 hours and happen one to four times a month.
Migraines often include other symptoms. Someone with a migraine may be sensitive to light and sound. They may prefer to be in a dark, quiet space. They may also experience nausea and vomiting and visual disturbances aura. Women are more likely than men to get migraines. Migraine attacks may also run in a family and begin at an early age. Certain environmental factors are common triggers, such as sleep disruption, dehydration, skipped meals, some foods, hormone fluctuations and exposure to chemicals.
Cluster headaches are more severe but less common. They often begin on one side of the head and recur for days or weeks. He urged people to pay close attention as frequent headaches could indicate that an individual is suffering from conditions such as brain tumours or aneurysms. According to doctors, there are three common types of headaches — tension headaches, sinus headaches, and migraines. Noting, how frequently a person tends to be struck down by a headache is another key.
Frequency could also indicate the severity to seek medical advice. Munger pointed that if a person has more than two headaches a week for longer than a fortnight, then it is of utmost importance to get checked by a doctor. By analysing and noting down the frequency of headaches, people might be able to pinpoint the triggers. It could include things like a specific food or drink, being on your period, an insufficient amount of sleep, insufficient water intake and such.
Previous Next. View Larger Image. But there are contributing factors that can trigger chronic headaches, such as: Alcohol Caffeine Dehydration Hunger Lack of sleep Sensory triggers such as bright lights, loud noises and pungent smells Stress Chronic headaches can also be linked to other disorders, including depression, anxiety, sinus infections , allergies and temporomandibular joint dysfunction, also known as TMJ.
Follow Us. Related Posts. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email. An aura is a visual sign that something's going to happen, and it's often one side of your visual field. You can see either jagged lines or twinkly lines that start small and then grow a little bit bigger and then get smaller. And the aura often precedes the headache, so that's classic migraine. So it's unilateral, one-sided, throbbing often, sometimes with nausea and photophobia. And the headache usually lasts anywhere for a couple of hours to a day, not longer than a day, usually.
How long does yours last? Interviewer: When it happens, I don't want to do anything else but just lay in my bed and hope it goes away. Well, because any. If it's going to last for half a day, then anything is eventually going to work because it's going to go away.
Jones: So in terms of treatment of migraine, it's certainly some people do well. Some Tylenol or ibuprofen can help some. There are a new category of drugs, new meaning for the last 15 plus years or even longer called Triptans, and these actually, if you take them as soon as that little twinkly eye thing is going on, or soon as you think it's coming. Jones: If you take them, they can decrease or block the headache part. So they have been very, very successful in treating migraine. If you take at the beginning.
So if you're having headache a couple times a week and it's like this, and you have you to. You have to go to a doctor to get this prescription, you need to carry it with you in every purse you've got because if you have to run home, or drive home especially if you're not feeling all that well, which isn't that great, to go get it so you have to carry it with you. Interviewer: Let's back up a little bit and let's talk just briefly about if there are no signs or symptoms.
Like we talked about, "Yeah, I can see it, I can feel it coming. Jones: For people who don't have an aura, the Triptans still work very well. It can shorten the course, the intensity, and duration of that migraine. So as soon as you start feeling the headache, that unilateral throbbing, happens a couple times a week, then taking it as soon as you begin to feel it will also shorten the course. So people with aura just have a little bit more warning before the headache starts.
Interviewer: So this is normal? So like once, twice a week for about half a day a day, that's normal? Jones: Well, normal. Jones: We don't know exactly why. We used to think, in the old days, that it was vasospasm that for some reason in the brain, the blood vessels would go become tight and then they would expand and that would hurt when they got expanded.
That no longer is really the understanding that we have. So we're not exactly sure. The mechanisms are difficult, but Triptans seem to work pretty well. When you have a headache ibuprofen can work. What you really want to stay away from is taking ibuprofen all the time, or taking narcotics for these headaches because people can develop rebound headache. So rebound headache is when you get a headache after the stuff you've been taking for the headache stops, and then you get a more headache.
So the goal is to try to take something. Now, I asked what your triggers were. Triggers are things that you say, I think that I am. This is happening when I have my headache. Jones: I'm going to tell you some triggers.
So it turns out that there are some well-known triggers, and one is they fall into categories of change in habit. So if you usually sleeps X number of hours a night, or you usually get up at a certain time and now you're changing that, you're not getting.
Jones: Your behavior. So you have changed your behavior and you're getting more sleep, you're getting up later than you normally do, morning migraine is common. So you're getting up too late or you're getting up at a time that you aren't used to those.
So not enough sleep or a change in sleep habit, not enough food or a change in food habit, a weekend headache, vacation headache. So you're stressed, stressed, stressed, stressed and all of a sudden you're letting down and you're sleeping more or you're eating differently, so vacation headaches or change. Jones: So you're changing. So migraine is often associated when you've changed a habit. Caffeine withdrawal has its own kind of headache, but people drink much more coffee than they used to or less can trigger their migraine, although it can trigger different kinds of headaches too.
Jones: Well, so that's a hangover. If you're drinking, now so let's talk about what you're doing the night before twice a week.
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