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.
   • Read about What Causes Headaches
2. Working out the cause depends on how headache symptoms are described:
   • What is the Location of Headache?
   • Was it a Pounding Headache?
   • Or maybe it is a Stabbing or Sharp Head Pain?
   • Or is it more like a Pressure in the Head?
   • Is it a Constant Headache or Headache Episodes?

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.
     • Sometimes migraine is confused with a Sinus Headache.
     • Migraine is the most common cause of Headaches During Pregnancy.
   • Serious, life-threatening causes of headaches are rare
   • However, it is important to investigate sudden severe headache properly
   • Sometimes a Lumbar Puncture Procedure is necessary
   • 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