Stress Headaches can transform to Daily Headaches

Stress headaches can also lead in to migraines for migraine sufferers.

Tension headache relief can be found by managing your migraines/headaches. Most stress headaches in the last five years or so have been found to be migraines.

But let's clear something up. You have to be a headache/migraine sufferer in order to experience head pain from stress.

People suffer from headache/migraine pain because the relationship between stress, and headache is much easier to see than what stress does to other parts of the body.

This is because the nervous system in migraine/headache sufferers are much more reactive. For other medical disorders stress is not so obvious. It may take months or years to manifest. For instance your heart.

You may hear someone say they had a tension headache, and another say they suffer from stress headaches. Both are the same.

Worry, getting mad, irritated, aggravated, plus a few others you know, causes stress.

I know a man that doesn't suffer from migraines, or headaches. When he was having trouble trying to please a homeowner(one that had not been satisfied with any one's work), I talked to him one night, and he said his head was busting, and he knew it was because of the home owner.

That was a stress headache because he wasn't sick. Now if something else had went wrong that evening, all of that could have triggered a migraine.

The same things that give you a migraine headache can be responsible for that stress/tension headache. Also, migraine/headache sufferers do best when they maintain a predictable environment. In other words, when everything is going the same, no ups , and downs.

Do you ever have your headache/migraine not bother you much during the week, and then bam, on the weekend, the two days of the week to enjoy, you have a headache/migraine?

The reasons the headache triggers are at work

Friday night beers, late party, and a popular one, is caffeine withdrawal.

But then it may be the sudden decrease in stress which is associated with a crash in epinephrine, and cortisol, and this triggers headaches in some people.

Stress in itself may not be causing your stress headaches, but added to the changes in stress such as your sleep pattern, or the changes in estrogen,(for women) or a weather front may be the cause.

The bottom line is, you can't eliminate all stress from your life, so in that case, you will have to learn to manage it.

You can take away a food trigger that may be making your head hurt, and you can adjust your sleep pattern on a Saturday morning, but a front coming through (gives some headaches) can't be changed.

Learn how to identify what causes your headaches. Your stress, plus a food, maybe red wine, or aspartame, and many more daily contacts may push your head past the threshold, and giving you stress/tension headaches.

Can your stress/tension, and migraine headaches get out of control?

You can start feeding your stress headaches to many pain pills, even if they are doctor prescribed, and pretty soon that day here, and day there headache, will gradually increase.

You don't pay attention to the time, but you can take more pain medicine than one may think, in a year or two.

And some wake up, and realized that they have stress headaches everyday. They are called chronic-daily-headaches.

#(1)A stress/tension headache has a steady, moderately severe pain above the eyes, or in the back of the head.

#(2)It usually starts in the morning , and worsens throughout the day. Also, you will have a feeling of tightness around the neck, and the scalp. Also weakness ,and feeling worn out may come with your headache.

How to manage stress headaches!!

Naturally cutting back on stress will give you the most help. Eat right, and pay attention to your food triggers. After all stress added to something else can raise your threshold to a headache or migraine.

Add supplements such as vitamins,, herbs, and also give some though to this important mineral. A deficiency in it can cause headaches. Look at our pillows page. Anything wrong in your neck can give you a headache.

Stress headaches in children are common to.

Children today have much more stress than ever. In my day, life was much more simple than for young ones today.

Here are a few examples.

Kids today race from school to sports practice, and quite a few of schools extracular activities. Then there is peer pressure, substance abuse, and the high rate or separation, and divorce among parents( I'm sure you know someone who is separated, and what that does to the little ones.

School is probably the biggest factor for stress/tension headaches in young ones. Sols, and homework (fifth grade equal to ninth grade thirty years ago) all add up to be very stressful in a young ones life.

Keep a good relationship with your child. Talk, and be talked to. Help them with their problems. And don't be to harsh on them if they aren't on the honor roll. And most of all let them know every day how much you love them. Trust me on this one, that helps.

About fifteen percent of children, and teenagers have tension/stress headaches.

A young boy in my Grandsons class (6th grade) has been having migraines for several years now.

Also check your child for eyestrain. That will give him/her headaches.

Stress headaches, like migraines can be managed by many sufferers.(Not all, but many)The keyword is manage, not mismanage.

If you go by the book,your tension headaches will improve. If you don't manage them, they could get worse.

Our last page has more info on a stress headache/tension headache. Also Web MD has more info on tension headaches.

Back to our first page on waking to a morning headache.

Wishing all a pain free day, and hope you avoid your stress headaches.

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