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Just a Headache or a Severe Headache?

Almost everybody will get a headache at some time.

Many people suffer severe headaches because they do not have a headache diagnosis.

Without a diagnosis treatment may not work.

Knowing what causes headaches is an important first step to reducing head pain.

Here are the most important things to know about headaches:

  1. Almost 99% of all headaches are due to one of 6 top causes.

  2. Working out the cause depends on how headache symptoms are described:

  3. What you were doing to bring on the headache matters.

    • Was it an Exercise Headache?
    • Or one of the Sex Headaches?
    • Non-Headache Symptoms such as nausea, numbness or blurred vision are usually symptoms of migraine.

    • Serious, life-threatening causes of headaches are rare
    • Chronic Headache Disorders will be helped by living a "Headache Friendly Lifestyle"
    • Sometimes severe headaches are very difficult to diagnose because they seem to be Strange Headaches

As a practising NHS Consultant Neurologist, I've done all the hard work in the last 17 years learning about Headaches.

What you will read is what I tell my own patients and what I teach to medical students, doctors in training and qualified family doctors.

Hopefully you too can learn what an expert thinks, says and does for these headache conditions...and be better off for it.

Regards,

Raeburn Forbes



What Causes Headaches?
If you realise that 99% of headaches are one of 6 common conditions it is relatively easy to work out what causes headaches.

Does The Location of Headache Help with Diagnosis?
The Location of Headache is an important clue to diagnosis. Read about how to use headache location to help with diagnosis.

Acute Headache Diagnosis and Management
There are five main acute headache types that present as emergencies, and this will tell you how to sort them out.

Lumbar Puncture Procedure Guideline
Lumbar Puncture procedure, lumbar puncture clinical practice guideline - a step by step guide can be freely distributed for use.

Strange Headache
This is a compilation of conditions that may cause a strange headache. They can be difficult to diagnose or treat as they are rare.

Hangover Headache
Alcohol can cause a severe headache called a hangover headache. This describes the symptoms of delayed alcohol induced headache

Forbes Quick Neuro Exam
A neuro exam is an important part of assessing a person with a severe headache. Based on Forbes Quick Neurological Examination.

Orgasm Headache
Orgasm headache also called coital headache. You must make sure there is not a serious cause by seeking medical advice. Can be prevented by medication.

Headache Back of Head
Headache back of head is most usually due to a problem in the upper spine. The other causes are described here.

Severe Headache Types
There are many headache types, and knowledge of the characteristics of these types of headache essential for proper headache diagnosis and headache treatment.

Headaches During Pregnancy
Headaches during pregnancy are common. Most are migraine, but some rare, serious causes of severe headache during pregnancycan occur, like venous sinus thrombosis.

What is Trigeminal Neuralgia?
What is trigeminal neuralgia? Trigeminal neuralgia symptoms include severe, intense pain in the side of the face. Contains link to trigeminal neuralgia resources.

Thunderclap Headache Brain Scans
Thunderclap headache usually rewquires some form of brain scan to exclude a serious cause. The different types of brain scan to investigate thunderclap headaches are reviewed here.

What is Neuralgia?
What is neuralgia? Head Neuralgia or cranial neuralgia are types of severe headache caused by damage to nerves in or on the surface of the head. The common neuralgias are explained.

Sinus Headache
Sinusitis, also called rhinosinusitis is an infection of the nose lining and paranasal sinuses. Migraine headache is often mistaken for sinus headache. Sphenoid sinusitis is a cause of chronic pain.

Headache Medications
This is a compendium of headache medications that I have collected. It should cover almost all known headache treatments that have been tested clinically.

Melatonin
Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone that can be used to treat headache disorders

Headaches: Know More!
You can stay up to date on severe headache disorders and headache treatments.

Treatment of Sexual Activity Headache
Treatment of sexual activity headache is possible without having to abstain!

Contact
Contact details, Dr Raeburn Forbes, Severe Headache Expert, Northern Ireland, UK and Ireland

About Severe Headache Expert
About: Severe Headache Expert is a website devoted to diagnosis and management of headaches. Written by Dr Raeburn Forbes a practising NHS Consultant Neurologist

Headache Episodes
Headache episodes can be separated into short-lived and longer periods of headache. This can help decide on diagnosis and treatment of severe headache disorders

What Causes a Pounding Headache?
Pounding Headache is usually due to migraine, and there are several clues that will lead you to a correct headache diagnosis.


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