What kind of headache do you have? What diseases cause headaches?

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#Headache

Headache is just a symptom, there are many causes of headache. Understanding the basic headache classification helps us to improve our understanding of headache, so that patients can better understand headache and can even treat headache by themselves without seeing a doctor.

Secondary headache

Headache caused by head trauma, intracranial infection, intracranial tumor, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, and hypertension.

Headache symptoms caused by systemic diseases: fever, after a major seizure, sinusitis, glaucoma, etc.


Complete list of headache differentiation

Primary headache

Primary headache: It is usually caused by lesions of the meninges, blood vessels, muscles, and periosteum that affect the nociceptive structures of the head and neck, such as tension headache, migraine, and cervicogenic headache.

  • Tension headache: Tension headache is relatively common and can occur in 40% to 95% of individuals. It is characterized by moderate pain, mostly located in the bilateral forehead, intraorbital or retroorbital area, and can be a full headache or a posterior occipital constriction or pressure headache, also known as a muscle contraction headache. This type of headache is relatively smooth and is not associated with nausea or photophobia or phonophobia. It is mild and does not interfere with the function of the individual. The frequency of attacks varies from once a month to three times a week.
  • Migraine: It is characterized by episodes of severe unilateral or bilateral throbbing headache, which may be accompanied by autonomic nervous system symptoms (nausea, vomiting) or photophobia and phonophobia. The headache is usually located on one side of the head and is severe throbbing pain with nausea, photophobia and phonophobia. The patient needs to lie flat in a dark and quiet environment and has one to three attacks per month. Migraines usually have a genetic predisposition.

  • Cervicogenic headache: A group of syndromes caused by organic or functional lesions of the cervical spine or soft tissues of the neck, with chronic unilateral head pain as the main manifestation; the pain is in the head and the disease is in the cervical spine. (The presence of radiating scattered pain on local pressure may be the basis for diagnosis.)
  • Cluster headache: pain located around or in the eye, with conjunctival congestion, tearing, runny nose and nasal congestion on the same side of the pain. The pain usually lasts 45 to 90 minutes, with multiple episodes per day and at regular times, and the patient often wakes up in pain during the night. The pain is so intense that it is like a fire poker stabbing and stirring in the eye. Patients often toss and turn, unable to lie flat, or bang their heads against the wall. Cluster headache attacks last 4 to 8 weeks at a time, and then the symptoms disappear at intervals of about a year.


  • Occipital neuralgia: The typical clinical manifestation is persistent headache on one or both sides of the posterior occipital region or both collaterals, and some patients have pain in the parieto-occipital region or frontal-occipital region.

What kind of headache do you have? What diseases cause headaches?



Headache patients think their headache is hopeless, they have seen countless doctors, but only analgesic drugs and sedative drugs, they have been taking such drugs for a long time, they are full of despair for the future, they have been muddled for many years, they think no one can understand their pain, they have wanted to die countless times, although they are not in debt, they feel there is no hope for their life.

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