What To Do About A Chronic Headache
Sometimes you get a headache and eventually it goes away. If it is a tension headache caused by stress then it will usually subside if you take a break and just relax for a while. Even people that suffer from migraine headaches can be diagnosed as having infrequent occurrences that do not require any more than some pain killers and maybe anti-inflammatory drugs to treat.
But every once in a while you get a patient with a chronic headache that just does not seem to want to go away and those are the patients that you need to really keep an eye on. A chronic headache can potentially be the sign of other things going on that could be as dangerous as a brain tumor. A chronic headache can not only affect your life but it can also affect the lives of those around you as you become more and more difficult to deal with the more often you get these chronic headaches.
It is unusual for tension headaches to develop into chronic headache because tension headaches are usually tied directly to the stress in your life and any other outside stimulus that you may be experiencing. It could also be that you are taking in too much sugar and this is what is causing what seems to be chronic headaches but in reality is just your body reacting to something going on.
The best way to find out why you keep getting chronic headaches that seem to feel like tension headaches is to talk with your doctor. It could be that you have too much stress in your life and chronic headaches can lead to other physical ailments. There could also be other physical problems going so talk with your doctor.
Then There Is The Ones You Expect To Be Chronic
Medical science is not sure what actually causes headaches but there is enough data to be able to tell between a migraine headache and any other type of headache. Migraines can come in two types. There are the migraines that get treated on a per occurrence basis and are not recurring or there is the migraine headaches that could be classified as chronic headaches and are under a doctor's care.
For many sufferers of chronic migraines the answer is treatment through medication from your doctor. Different patients react differently to different medications so for more severe migraine cases doctors will usually mix medications to reduce side effects.
Headaches are things that doctors still do not completely understand. Tension headaches are the easiest to understand, and the easiest to treat, because it is pretty clear what brought them on. But for certain types of migraine headaches, and stronger types of headaches, there is still much research to be done on what causes them and how to treat them.