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Types of Headaches

By Rose Williams

There are a large number of well-known type 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 can be a rather severe, debilitating headache. This type of headache has a profound effect on the every day lives of its sufferers. The pain is either a pulsating sensation or sometimes a throbbing kind of head pain. This throbbing pain can vary from moderate to severe. The symptoms of migraine headaches include nausea and extreme audio-visual sensitivity. The migraine sort of headache usually comes with a precursive warning feeling sometimes called an 'aura'.

This aura can come in the form of changes in visual perception. You may see bright flashes, zig-zags and sometimes you may even lose part of your vision. You may even experience numbness or tingling in your arms. These warning symptoms will fade a while before the migraine attack begins. A migraine headache can last for about 3 days without any medication, before it recedes.

The sorts of tension headache cause a dull, constant pain in the forehead, the sides or back of the head. Some people liken a tension headache to a tight band wrapped around the head. This is considered to be one of the most common kinds of headache. A tension headache does not produce symptoms such as light sensitivity, nausea and vomiting.

Tension headaches are known as episodic or chronic sorts. Generally speaking, most sufferers of this sort of tension headache, get chronic headaches. It is thought that about 40% of the population suffers from tension headaches at some period or another in their lives. Another of these kinds of headache is the Chronic daily 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 distinguished 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 kind of headache. The name of this headache comes 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 experienced on one side of the head. Usually the sharp, penetrating pain begins behind an eye. Cluster headaches cause red, teary eyes, a stuffy nose and sometimes symptoms like nausea and sensitivity to light may occur.

These are some of the various sorts of headaches that can be experienced. The pain from the headache can be mild or it can be excruciating in its severity. To obtain relief from these headaches you should talk with your doctor about medication or you can buy some over the counter headache pain tablets. - 26706

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