About Chronic Tension Headaches
Posted by Rose Williams in Uncategorized, tags: advice, anger, anxiety, depression, emotions, frustration, headaches, men, mental health, migraines, moods, other, self help, Uncategorized, womenThere is a fairly good chance that someone you know has experienced some kind of headache recently, just because there are so many different sorts of headaches about. These forms of headache may be the result of dehydration, missed meals, migraines or other kinds of headache like a tension headache or even a chronic tension headache.
While a tension headache feels like a tight elastic band around your head, the pain from tension headaches goes away after a little while. Now imagine having to suffer from a tension headache every day. This sort of tension headache is classified as a chronic tension headache because the symptoms may be experienced at least 15 days a month for a period of several months.
With the case of chronic tension headaches, the symptoms of the headaches are quite similar to those of tension headaches, except that the pain never actually seems to go away. People who have experienced chronic tension headaches, say that the pain is as if they were wearing a tight band around their heads. Other people have described severe chronic tension headache pain as a hooded cape that drapes down over their shoulders.
In the case of both tension headaches and chronic tension headaches, the pain can be located at the forehead region, sides of the head and sometimes even at the back of the head. At its usual strength the chronic tension headache is a dull, aching pain, although sometimes the pain is like a pressurized tightness. Generally the pain is mild to moderately intense.
The severity of the pain varies with the general physical state of the individual concerned and it can also vary with the various kinds headaches. Many people begin to experience chronic tension headaches as soon as they awake in the morning, whereas others have reported that their chronic tension headaches do not begin until the early hours of the day.
Normal tension headaches are more usual than chronic tension headaches, although twice as many women as men suffer from chronic tension headaches. The duration and the severity of the pain is about the same as a normal tension headache , although the pain from the chronic tension headache is almost a daily thing and is also continuous in nature.
Individuals who suffer from chronic tension headaches are supposed to be more susceptible to anxiety and depression than non-sufferers of chronic tension headaches. It is further known that chronic tension headaches occur during or after heightened periods of stress and anxiety. Anyone who has mood disorders like depression or anxiety should have these conditions treated prior to getting their chronic tension headache seen to.
Those suffering from chronic tension headaches can still lead pretty normal and fulfilling lives with the correct medical advice and treatment. Over time, they may come to know what triggers their headaches and how preventing those triggers occurring can stop the onset of another bout of chronic tension headaches.
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