Did you Have a Thunderclap Headache ?

You would agree that migraines and headaches give symptoms before they start wouldn't you? Not thunderclap headaches. These headaches are defined as reaching maximum severe pain level in less than a minute. Not good is it? And most are instance, meaning, wham, you have it. If you get one, take no chances, go to the ER.

We've all stood somewhere looking out, or probably gotten caught in a thunderstorm at one point in our lives. And you've watched a thunderclap haven't you? In a second it travels across the sky. That's the reason these headaches are named thunderclap.

On our last pages we had a sexual headache, and also a orgasm headache. The orgasm headache comes on in an instance to.

If you've already experienced a thunderclap headache, and didn't go to the ER, you should make an appointment as early as possible to have this checked out. This isn't a normal symptom of a headache. A benign thunderclap headache is one that has no subarachnoid hemorrhage , or (SAH).

But still should be evaluated with angiography for an aneurysm to be on the safe side. About fifty percent of these headaches hurt in the occipital area, and close to forty percent are felt in the front of the head. Thunderclap headache causes!!!!

SAH, which is a form of stroke(bleeding), Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis, (CVST) that's channels formed between layers of dura matter in your brain, and you can have a blood clot in there.

Also, cervical artery dissection

Severely raised blood pressure is another possibility. There's a few more, but I don't want to bore you. (I know, to late).

What we can suggest might be happening to you on a web site is nothing compared to what the actual test may revel. Before receiving the name in 1986, thunderclaps were called benign vascular headaches, migrainous vasospasm, and even crash migraines, although they are distinctive from migraine headaches.

If nothing is found wrong, that's good news, but the bad news is, you can suffer with primary thunderclap headaches for months or years, and this happens to about a a third of the people that have them. And thunderclap head aches can be brought on spontaneously by just about doing anything, even when your resting.

The risk of SAH is greater if you have any of these thunderclap headache symptoms.

Vomiting, loss of consciousness, if you're female, have epileptic seizures, or have focal neurological symptoms.

The diagnostic criteria for these headaches are!!!

(A) Severe head pain

(B) Both of the following

(1) Sudden onset reaching maximum intensity in one minute.

(2) Lasting one hour to ten days.

(C) Does not recur regularly over subsequent weeks or months.

(D) Not attributed to another disorder.

We hope we didn't scare you when we emphasized the importance of having these headaches checked at a hospital. Below is one account of what can happen, although for most of these headaches, there is nothing to be of great concerned about. By this, we mean you haven't had a aneurysm. BUT!!!!

Thunderclap headaches, should one be worried?

Our last page is on headaches from eye strain, and our next page is on another sexual headache called coital headache.

All the best

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