Headache behind Eyes, What causes these Headaches

Find out what can cause these headaches, and how you may be able to help them. They aren't always cluster headaches

After reading article after article one may think people have cluster headaches when they have headaches that hurt behind their eyes. One trip to your headache specialist will easily confirm if this is the case.

Cluster headaches are also called suicide headaches, and they are called this for a reason. You know it by the excruciating pain.

But you can have pain behind your eye from several other different types of migraines/headaches. Are you like this?

My wife has suffered from excruciating pain behind her right eye for years. And not one headache specialist knew what to do, yes that's right (HEADACHE SPECIALIST, more than one). They said she just had a migraine.

But the headache specialist she now goes to, in five minutes gave her three more reasons she could have headache behind her eyes.

One being hemicrania continua.

I will paint this migraine a little more clearly.This is a continuous headache that can hurt behind the eyes, make your eyelid droop, and teary. This headache will respond to Indomethacin if this is the cause.

The other headache that can hurt behind the eye was occipital neuralgia which is caused by damage to the nerves in the neck.

The symptoms of these conditions is known as chronic headaches.

Once diagnosed, they are treated in several different ways. Some occipital neuralgia treatments include local nerve block, peripheral nerve stimulation, steroids, rhizotomy, phenl injections, antidepressants.

Other less common forms of surgical neurolysis or microdecompression are also used to treat the condition when conservative measures fail.

Hopefully my wife will receive the decompression pretty soon to lesson her pain. (Update, my wife has received her migraine surgery. Don't forget, we'll be giving updates when it's all done. It has helped. The pictures are on our surgery page, and when the other two surgery's are completed we'll be giving updates. Finally, relief.)

And then there is the type of headache the other doctors told my wife she suffered with, migraines. Now keep in mind these were headache specialist.

None told her that it could be more than one cause to make her head hurt behind her eye.

And it may be a migraine headache that is causing your headache behind eyes that you have. That is the reason I preach about how you should find the best headache specialist to treat your migraines/headaches.

There are "diagnostic" tests for the first two migraine types to see if this is the case of the pain behind the eyes. It's hard to give a blunt description of your headache behind eyes when there can be so many causes of this headache pain.

We will just have to give you several different types of headaches that will make behind your eyes hurt to see if you can make a connection. Sinus headaches are nasty, and can give you pain behind the eyes. Has your sinuses been giving you trouble? The pressure can build up from a sinus infection, and feel like it's going to blow your eye out. I've had this before. A trip to the doctor with the proper diagnose, you fix this headache.

One of the most common reasons for headaches behind eyes is because of the tension headaches.

If you take a pain reliever, and the pain is helped, then the reason could be stress, not enough rest, sleep, or maybe to much of a good thing such as being out in the sun, and heat all day doing something that you enjoy.

Another cause of headache behind your eyes can be due to your eyes

Strain to your eyes from not seeing well can cause your eyes, and head to hurt.

Inflammation within your eye can give you a headache.

Also glaucoma can cause eye, and head pain. Before I knew it, glaucoma took some of my vision away in my right eye. But I didn't have any headaches. Don't take chances, go to your eye doctor if you have headache behind eyes to rule a eye disease out.

Our next page is about neck headaches, and another page is on coughing headaches.

All the best

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