What Are The Most Common Headache Causes?
It is difficult when you are suffering every day with a constant, dull ache in your head, or behind your eyes. Headaches can be an extremely irritating and debilitating condition which can leave the suffering feeling severe pain, nausea, fatigue, and can , in the most extreme cases, stop the sufferer from being able to continue with their every day lives. I know how difficult it is to live with such a headache as I suffer almost daily from them also.
It is often hard to understand, and to treat, if you do not know the causes of the headaches in the first place. Sometimes the headaches happen suddenly, and blindly leaving you in horrible pain, sometimes they happen slow and gradually. To help begin to solve this, we need to know the causes of the headaches in the first place.
Tension and cluster headaches are two types of headaches which most people suffer from. They differ in various ways, having both different causes and different symptoms.
With Tension headaches most of the pain will occur throughout the day, usually a dull throbbing which occurs in the head or behind the eyes. With a cluster type headache however, you will find that this can be a chronic condition which can occur daily.
The causes of headaches are still unknown. But this does not mean that doctors do not have an idea of what can cause these headaches to come on the sufferer. Starting with tension type headaches, often some causes are squinting when reading, or painkiller overuse.
By over using pain killers, it can actually give you a headache rather than take it away. The body begins to get dependent upon the painkillers and so when it does not have them it can go into withdrawal mode, actually causing the headache. This is the same with stress. When we are under stress, quite often one of the bodies way of telling us is to give you a headache.
Cluster headaches do not have the same effect as tension type headaches. These are caused quite fast, and so can be quite painful, more so than any other type of headache. These are often caused by things which are instantaneous and cause a reaction that is so too. Eventually this headache will go away, usually a little after the cause is removed.
The first of these causes is alcohol. Having extra alcohol in your system will instantly begin to make your headache continue to grow, and you will be more likely to suffer. This is quite often what we refer to as a hangover. This is also the same with strong smells. Smelling things which can have a detrimental effect upon your, such as petrol, for an extended period of time, can make you cause headaches.
If you find that your headaches are due to sensitivity issues to light, check with your your doctor because they may be able to find easy relief for you.
Speaking of glasses, if you are often squinting to read or to watch the television, then you will be straining your eyesight, and therefore will be causing yourself to get tension headaches. Go to your optician and see if there is anything which can be done.
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