Constant Headache or Near-Constant Headaches

If you are dealing with a "constant headache" complaint, I mean that the headache is on a daily basis, and lasts throughout the day, or for most of the day. According to the International Headache Society, a chronic daily headache occurs on more than 15 days per month, although in my experience it is pretty much every day in most cases.

These headaches here give the person little respite from pain at all:

1. Chronic Migraine (usually associated with medication overuse)
2. Chronic Tension Type Headache
3. Hemicrania Continua
4. Secondary Headaches
• Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
• Intracranial Hypotension
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Sphenoid Sinusitis
• Temporal Arteritis
This is not an exhaustive list, but these are important and treatable diagnoses.

Please note some people are confused between frequent headache episodes which are short lived and can occur most or every day, such as an ice-pick headache.

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