Discover How You Can Diagnose and Treat Severe Headaches Quickly and Effectively

The Misery of Constant Headaches

If you suffer constant or severe headaches your life can be completely disrupted. You never seem to get clear of pain before another one hits.

Doctors Run Out of Headache Treatment Options

If you are a Family Doctor or Nurse Specialist treating people with recurring or constant headaches, you can feel that you have run out of options and have nothing left to offer.

Sudden Severe Headaches Land You in Hospital

A sudden headache, like thunderclap headache, may be life-threatening and land you in hospital. This can be a very frightening time for you or your relatives. You need more information fast!

Emergency Doctors Must Get It Right

If you are the Emergency Doctor managing people admitted with headache you will want to get the neurological examination, diagnosis and treatment right first time.

Specific Treatments Exist

In most cases a specific headache treatment exists for each headache diagnosis. A headache care plan, if followed correctly, can give you or your patient considerable relief from a difficult headache problem.

What You Will Read Is What I Tell My Patients and Co-workers

Every day I talk to people with severe headaches. I also spend a lot of time teaching Family Doctors, Hospital Doctors, Nurses, Physiotherapists and Pharmacists - what you will read here is what I tell my own patients and teach my co-workers.

Work Smarter - Learn About Headaches Here

As a practising consultant neurologist, I've done all the hard work in the last 16 years learning about headache disorders. So you don't have to keep on searching or browsing for more - it's all on this one site - and I will provide an easy way to be kept up-to-date.

We all want the best possible headache care.

So I want to share what I think works in real life and be honest about what does not work. Hopefully you too can learn what an expert thinks, says and does.

I sincerely hope you benefit from your time here.

Regards,

Raeburn Forbes



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

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

Ice Pick Headache
About Ice pick headache. Symptoms and diagnosis of a sudden severe brief sharp pain in your head.

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.

Thunderclap Headache
Thunderclap headache describes a sudden, severe, maximal-at-onset headache. There are many serious causes, but some occur without any cause being found.

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.

Severe Migraine Headache
Severe migraine headache is also called chronic migrane. This is a pattern of increasing frequency of migraine with little time between episodes associated with overuse of medication. Can be treated.

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Temporal Arteritis
Temporal arteritis (also called giant cell arteritis) is a cause of severe headache of new onset in people aged 50 years or over. Blindness may result if left untreated.

Lumbar Puncture
Lumbar puncture - a medical procedure to get cerebrospinal fluid from the lower back. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis is helpful in the diagnosis of severe headache, meningitis,subarachnoid haemorrhage

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

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.

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.

Exercise Headache or Exertional Headache
Exertion headache or exercise headache is a type of severe headache that is provoked by physical activity. It can be associated with serious brain or even cardiac disease.

Intracranial Hypotension
Spontaneous Intracranial hypotension is a severe headache disorder caused by a leak of spinal fluid. The condition is difficult to diagnose, but treatment with epidural blood patch can help a lot.

Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
Subarachnoid haemorrhage is a cause of severe headache. It is due to rupture a berry aneurysm in over 85% of cases. If suspected urgent investigation is needed.

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.

Brain Tumor Symptoms
Brain tumor symptoms include severe headache. However, if a tumor is diagnosed it is more usual for headache to be one of several different brain tumour symptoms.

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.

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

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.

Sphenoid Sinusitis
Sphenoid sinusitis is a cause of chronic severe headache that is difficult to diagnose. Classic sinus symptoms of running nose or nasal blockage are often absent.

Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome
Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome is a cause of thunderclap headache. It can cause rerepated episodes of severe headache associated with exertion, high blood pressure or drugs.

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.

Headache Back of Head
Headache back of head is a common search term. This page describes the caues of a headche in back of head, and the different headache types in the occiput.

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

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

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


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