Symptoms of Chronic Headaches
Chronic daily headaches are classified by how long they felt the last time - more than four hours or a little more than four hours. The duration of the last headache you feel can indicate what type of headache you are experiencing.
1. Chronic migraine
This headache evolving from migraine that comes on suddenly. To be diagnosed, you should have a headache - migraine, headaches due to blood pressure or both - 15 days or more in a month, for the last three months. In addition, in eight days or more for the last three months, you must have experienced the following symptoms.
Headache must have at least the following two characteristics:
- Attack only on one side of the head
- Causing throbbing pain
- Cause of the pain is to severe
- Being annoyed with regular physical activity
And the symptoms that led to at least one of the following:
- Nausea, vomiting or both
- Sensitive to light and sound
2. Chronic headaches caused by tension (tension headaches)
These headaches evolve from tension headaches come on suddenly. These headaches may occur in the last hours or continuously.
Chronic tension headaches caused by having at least two of the following characteristics:
- Pain on both sides of the head
- Cause mild to moderate pain
- Cause pain that feels pressured or tightened but not pulsed
- Do not make feel annoyed at routine physical activity
In addition, it all led to at least one of the following:
- Sensitive to sound or light
- Mild nausea
3. New daily persistent headache
This became a constant headache in a few days from the first time you have a headache.
New daily persistent headache has at least two of the following characteristics:
- Pain on both sides of the head
- Cause pain that feels like pressure or tightening, but not pulsating
- Do not make feel annoyed at routine physical activity
In addition, it all led to at least one of the following:
- Sensitive to sound or light
- Mild nausea
4. Hemicrania continua
Hemicrania continua headache this causes pain on one side of the head that do not switch sides. They also:
- Daily and continues with the period without a sense of freedom from pain
- Causing moderate pain but feels stabbing when severe
- Respond prescription pain reliever indomethacin (Indocin)
- May sometimes be severe with symptoms such as migraine developed
In addition, hemicrania continua headache causes most arrived one of the following:
- Tears or red eyes as a side effect
- Runny nose or nasal airway
- Wilt eyelid or pupillary constriction
Causes of Chronic Headaches
The cause of most of the chronic daily headache is not so understandable. The main of chronic daily headache can not be identified by the case. Chronic daily headache occurs if:
- You have a heightened response to signs of pain
- Part of your brain that suppress pain does not work properly
The frequency of headache may be caused by another disease or condition is different, including:
- Swelling or other problems in the blood vessels and the range of the brain, including stroke.
- Infections, eg meningitis
- Intracranial pressure in the well is too high or too low
- brain tumors
- Traumatic injury to the brain
Many people who have actually experienced headache frequency effects from taking too frequent medical treatment of pain. If you take the medical treatment of pain - even without a prescription analgesics - more than three days a week, your risk of experiencing an increase in headaches.
