Headaches are the Most Common Type of Headache

Just about everyone gets a head-ache every once in awhile. My wife's head-ache specialist says that even migraines are normal. But when they are persistent, such as a person that has a head-ache everyday, something is causing it, and needs to be addressed.

While most headaches are simply annoying, and distracting, they can also be painful and disabling. The key to managing them is to find out what kind you suffer from.

When you mention head-aches you open up a wide range of what type you suffer with. Some sufferers may be diagnose with head-aches, when in fact they suffer with migraines.

Although tension type are the most common, you can suffer from chronic tension type that occurs daily, and can plague you for months.

Although the symptoms of migraines can be much worse, tension type head pain can be a nuisance.

First of all for mild to moderate tension type, nothing more than a advil migraine or excerdin migraine may work well. Heck, you may even take Ibuprofen to get you out of head pain.

First, the symptoms of headaches are!!!!

A dull pain or pressure that occurs on both sides of your head in the scalp, temples, or the back of your neck. Your pain may feel like a vise like ache, or someone squeezing a band around your head.

The muscles in the back of your neck may be tender and knotted to your touch. With a tension type, the pain generally lasts for an hour or two, but sometimes can last longer. The causes, or shall we say triggers of a headache can be!!!

Our trigger page will go into more depth, but stress, anxiety, fatigue, bad posture, oversleeping, and depression can factor into making your head hurt.

And to manage these, you can take each one, avoid it as best as you can, and try to get some exercise, this helps for long term relief.

Treatments for a head-ache can be as simple as rest, relaxation, taking a warm or cold shower, and even an over the counter pain reliever may knock your pain out. We'll also give you the symptoms of migraines just to make sure you aren't suffering with them instead of a tension head-ache. The pain of a migraine is much more intense than a tension type.

Some of the symptoms are!!!

(1)Light, sound, or smell bother you.

(2) If you experience nausea, or vomiting, numbness or tingling in your hands or feet, and the pain last several hours to several days, this is a migraine.

(3) Also, if the pain is steady, sharp, burning, and piercing, and starts on one side of your head and spreads to both sides. Triggers or causes of migraines!!!

Some of the same ones that give head-aches can also trigger migraines. See our migraine food triggers page. The treatments to prevent are basically the same as for head-aches but you may need something stronger to fight the pain, and if they occur frequently you may need a migraine preventive to take.

Sinus inflammation is sometning else that can also make your head hurt, and are often diagnosed as migraines.

They have to be treated properly to have relief. If you have pain behind the bridge of your nose, or cheekbones, you may be suffering with a sinus headache. This page talks about cluster migraines, another type of head-ache.

Headaches are at the center of the circle, and can branch out to migraines, the subtypes of migraines, and a list of others that can plague many sufferers.

Let a doctor sort out what type you suffer with, and find the right treatment. Or shall I say let a headache specialist diagnose you.And last, don't keep self treating your head pain if it starts to hurt more often, and more intense. To much pain medicine can turn your head-ache in to a chronic everyday headache. All the best

Visit our last page on dysphrenic migraine, a rare migraine, and our next page on headaches and migraines.

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