Types of Headaches
Posted by Rose Williams in Uncategorized, tags: advice, anger, anxiety, cluster, depression, emotions, frustration, headaches, mental health, migraines, moods, other, self help, tension, UncategorizedThere are quite a number of commonly-known kind of headache. These include pressure headaches, migraine headaches, tension headaches, chronic daily headaches, cluster headaches, ice pick headaches and sinus headaches.
A migraine headache is a severe headache. This type of headache has been found to have a profound impact on the daily lives of its sufferers. The pain can be a pulsating sensation or sometimes a throbbing kind of head pain. This throbbing pain can be moderate to severe. The symptoms of migraine headaches include nausea, extreme sensitivity to light and sound. With the migraine sort of headache there is often an early warning sensation called an aura.
The aura is experienced in the form of alterations in visual perception. You may see bright flashes, swirls or blurs and sometimes you may even lose a part of your sight. You could also experience a numbness or a tingling in your arms. These precursory warning symptoms will fade a while before the migraine attack begins. A migraine headache can last for about three days without any treatment, before it recedes.
The types of tension headache cause a dull, constant pain in the forehead, the sides or back of the head. Some people compare a tension headache to a tight band wrapped around the head. This is considered to be one of the most common types of headache. A tension headache does not produce symptoms like light sensitivity, nausea and vomiting.
Tension headaches are known as episodic or chronic types. Generally speaking, most sufferers of this sort of tension headache, get chronic headaches. It is estimated that about 40% of the population suffers from tension headaches at some time or another in their lives. Another of these kinds of headach is the Chronic daily headache.
Most chronic daily headaches are tension headaches or headaches that are caused by too much pain medication. With these sorts of headache, the pain is of a constant, dull nature - there can also be a feeling of tightness like a rubber band around the head. A chronic daily headache is diagnosed by its duration: the pain must last for at least 15 days per month during a three month period of time.
Another kind of headache is the Cluster headache group, which is a rare but very painful sort of headache. The name of the headache comes from the fact that the headache occurs in clusters of pain. Frequently, periods of continuous Cluster headaches may last weeks or months. This time is followed by long periods of no headaches at all.
Cluster headaches are usually experienced only on one side of the head at a time. The sharp, penetrating pain begins behind one eye. Furthermore, cluster headaches may cause red, watery eyes, a stuffy nose and sometimes symptoms like nausea and light sensitivity are occur too.
These are just a few of the many sorts of headaches that can be experienced. The pain from the headache can be mild or it can be excruciating in its severity. To find relief from these headaches you should talk to your doctor about treatment or you can buy some over the counter headache pain medication.
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