When we encounter troubles and difficult problems in life or work, we often describe our distress as "a real headache", but if a headache really occurs, it can really make people restless and sleepless.

Definition of headache

We define "headache" as the pain above the neck, including the pain in the face and brain. Because the brain itself does not have a pain receiver, the brain itself does not produce pain, but because the tissues of the head, including the skin, muscles, cerebral blood vessels, eyes and ears, and other organs or tissues are sensitive to pain, so once they are stimulated or in an abnormal state, pain will occur.

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Which are the 5 most common types of headaches?

According to clinical research, there are more than 300 causes of headache in human beings, showing that the causes of its onset are quite complex, and it is also divided into many types, such as primary, secondary headache, and other facial structural pain, etc. HEHO Jun has compiled the 5 most common types of headache in general, and see if the one you happen to have is one of them.

I. Constriction headache.

Tightness headache is caused by tightness of head muscles. According to a large-scale foreign statistics, people from 12 to 41 years old have an 86% chance of having a constrictive headache in a year.

The common manifestation of this primary headache is a tightening pain in the forehead and temples on both sides, like wearing a golden hat of the Monkey King, and the pain may also occur in the area around the shoulders and neck.

Tight headaches are mainly caused by muscle fatigue, so they usually start in the late afternoon and reach their peak in the evening or night. The attacks may be caused by stress, anxiety, or poor posture causing excessive tightness in the myofascia, and the pain may be exacerbated by staying up too late, smoking, and drinking too much alcohol.

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II. Migraine.

Migraine is a disease-specific term for a vascular primary headache with an incidence of 5% to 10%, usually occurring in childhood or adolescence, although many people develop them at an older age. Women suffer three times more often than men.

Migraine headaches have specific symptoms and causes, and localized headaches are not the only feature of migraine headaches. The common symptoms of migraine include nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and fear of noise. The location of the headache is usually unilateral, and the duration of the headache may range from 2 to 72 hours.

C. Cluster headache.

Cluster headache is also a type of vascular headache, also known as "suicide headache". It is extremely painful during attacks and is one of the most screaming "headache" types, and it takes an average of more than 8 years for patients to be correctly diagnosed with the cause.

The majority of cluster headaches are predominantly unilateral, occurring most often behind the unilateral eye sockets, sometimes above the eye sockets or in the temple on the same side, and some patients describe the pain in their eyes as being like a knife cut during an attack. Because the lesion may be in the inferior optic thalamus of the brain, patients are also often accompanied by autonomic symptoms, including red eyes, single-eye tearing, nasal discharge, sweating of the face, constricted pupils, drooping eyelids, and swelling of the face.

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IV. Neuralgic headache.

Neuropathic headache is common with instantaneous electric shock headache, repeated multiple attacks, the range of pain is related to the range of distribution of the lesioned nerve, the trigger point of pain is common clinically, touching hair or skin sometimes triggers the pain.

Occipital neuralgia is the most common, which refers to the occipital nerve and the auricular nerve that branch out from the back of the neck. The pain tends to increase when moving the head and neck, coughing, sneezing and other movements.

Trigeminal neuralgia, also known as the "number one pain in the world", is the next most common pain. The trigeminal nerve root is located in front of the left and right ears, and it divides into three nerve branches that connect the forehead and eye area, the cheekbones and nose, and the lower jaw in order from top to bottom. Once this nerve is compressed and the myelin sheath is damaged, it can amplify the sensory signals, turning even ordinary touch into pain, with pain that resembles a cut, a pinprick, a tear, a burn or an electric shock, which can seriously affect work and rest.

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V. Headache of brain diseases.

This is a secondary headache caused by brain diseases (such as brain tumor, stroke, ruptured brain aneurysm, or meningitis, etc.). Headaches caused by brain disease can be a sign or symptom of severe neurological disease, such as a sudden, severe headache that has only occurred in the last few weeks or days and has a tendency to become more severe and persistent.

In addition, headaches caused by brain disease can be combined with other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, fever, neck stiffness, numbness and weakness in the arms and legs, unsteady walking, blurred or double vision, memory loss, personality changes, or drowsiness and coma.

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