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A headache felt throughout the scalp is usually a tension headache. However, you should never try to diagnose yourself. For a diagnosis, a doctor needs to be consulted. Preferably a headache specialist who is best able to diagnose, treat and manage headache disorders.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoA headache in your forehead can be a migraine headache, a headache caused by stress tension or a sinus headache. There are many causes, more commonly the ones mentioned.
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∙ 11y agoCould be shingles; call your health care provider as soon as possible to get examined and, if needed, start treatment immediately.
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What are these bumps on your scalp during a migraine headache?
I don't know, but I get them too. With my 24-hour migraine I always find a bump or bumps. If I massage them, the migraine pain lessens. The next day, the bump/s are weeping and crusty, then later a hard scale forms. Gross. What the heck is it?
What causes headache pain?
A person feels headache pain when specialized nerve endings known as nociceptors are stimulated by pressure on or injury to any of the pain-sensitive structures of the head.
If brain has no nerve endings why are you having a headache?
Its not actually your brain that's hurting when you have a headache, there's no pain receptors in the brain but there are 9 areas around your brain in your head and neck .. Which is where you feel the pain..
Why does strep throat give you a headache?
Tonsillitis can create irritation of a nerve that branches into your brain. This irritation can cause some types of head and facial pain.
What causes throbbing pain to the left of the head soreness to the left side scalp?
These symptoms may be related to Migraine, or may be another headache disorder altogether. However, for a diagnosis, a doctor needs to be consulted. Preferably a headache specialist who is best able to diagnose, treat and manage headache disorders.
Daily and sometimes severe headaches accompanied by neck pain?
If the neck pain is causing the headache, this is called cervicogenic headache. If the headache is causing the neck pain, treating the headache will also treat the neck pain. Pain Management Specialists and Headache Specialists are the doctors best suited to treat these types of headaches.
What is the most radical form of occipital nerve treatment?
In extreme cases where pain is frequent, the nerves can be severed at the point where they join the scalp. The person is pain-free, but sensation is permanently lost in the affected region of the head.
What is the scientific explanation of headache?
Continuous pain in the head is of two types. One is called headache and the other is known as migraine in medical terminology. Both the types of pain are caused by pressing of the nerve endings. The difference between these two types of pain is due to different factors which bring pressure on the nerve endings. Tightening of muscles in the head and neck due to some reasons bring out pressure on the sensory nerves which identify this sensation as headache. Just as some water which has remained in elastic tube after the tap is turned off trickles out when the tube is pressed, the nerve endings also keep on sending a trickle of signals of unpleasant sensation to the brain. Therefore, as long as the nerves remain pressed headache does not stop.
What does it mean when you have a headache?
Massive is describing the amount of pain they are in, so a massive headache means that they are in alot of pain from a headache and is stronger than their ussual headaches they get.
What is pain in iliac nerve like?
iliac nerve pain sciatica
What happens if your tonsills hurt?
Tonsillitis can cause a bunch of referred pain to the surrounding areas. Many people experience ear pain and jaw pain with tonsillitis. I have also had pain in my molars. Hot liquids can relieve some of the pain.
Why do you have a headache?
you might be tiredKimmi:Another reason you get a headache is due to a pain somewhere in the brain, since your brain can't feel pain, the nerves pick it up. So, when you have a headache, it's a lot of times due to a pain in the brain.
