Types of Headaches

By Rose Williams

There are a large number of well-known sort of headache, which include, but are not limited to: sinus headaches, migraine headaches, tension headaches, chronic headaches, blood pressure headaches, chronic cluster headaches and tension headaches.

A migraine headache is a very severe, debilitating headache. This sort of headache has a deep impact upon the daily lives of its sufferers. The pain can be a pulsating sensation or sometimes a throbbing type of head pain. This throbbing pain can vary from moderate to severe. The symptoms of migraine headaches include nausea with high audio-visual sensitivity. The migraine type of headache often comes with a precursory warning feeling 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 dissipate a while before the migraine attack begins. A migraine headache can last for about three days without any medication, before it subsides.

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 thought to be one of the most common sorts of headache. A tension headache does not produce symptoms such as light sensitivity, nausea and vomiting.

Tension headaches occur in episodic or chronic sorts. Usually, most sufferers of this type of tension headache, experience chronic headaches. It is estimated that about 40% of the population suffers from tension headaches. Chronic daily headaches are another of these kinds of headache.

Most of the time chronic daily headaches are tension headaches or headaches that are caused by too much pain medication. In these kinds of headache, the pain is a constant, dull pain. There is also a feeling or tightness like a rubber band around the head. A chronic daily headache can be diagnosed by duration: that is the pain must last for 15 or more consecutive days per month during a three month period of time.

Another type of headache is the Cluster headache group, which is a rare but very painful sort of headache. The name of this headache arises from the fact that the headache produces clusters of pain. Periods of continuous Cluster headaches may last weeks or months, but this is then followed up by long periods of no headaches at all.

Cluster headaches are usually to be found 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 a few of the various kinds of headaches that can be experienced. The pain from the headache can be mild or it can be very severe. To find relief from these headaches you should talk to your doctor about medication or you can buy some over the counter headache pain tablets.

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