Pressure Headache » head http://pressureheadache.net Get Fast Relief! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:29:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 i have just been diagnosed with high blood pressure can this be causing my pressure in my head and headaches? http://pressureheadache.net/i-have-just-been-diagnosed-with-high-blood-pressure-can-this-be-causing-my-pressure-in-my-head-and-headaches/ http://pressureheadache.net/i-have-just-been-diagnosed-with-high-blood-pressure-can-this-be-causing-my-pressure-in-my-head-and-headaches/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:28:21 +0000 admin http://pressureheadache.net/i-have-just-been-diagnosed-with-high-blood-pressure-can-this-be-causing-my-pressure-in-my-head-and-headaches/ Continue reading →]]> Question by revsettle: i have just been diagnosed with high blood pressure can this be causing my pressure in my head and headaches?

i am now on blood pressure meds started them about three days ago.

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Answer by jonnyraven
Most often high blood pressure is symptom-less but it is possible

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]]> http://pressureheadache.net/i-have-just-been-diagnosed-with-high-blood-pressure-can-this-be-causing-my-pressure-in-my-head-and-headaches/feed/ 2 I have had a headache in the back of my head for about a week. Aall the symptoms point to a tension headache? http://pressureheadache.net/i-have-had-a-headache-in-the-back-of-my-head-for-about-a-week-aall-the-symptoms-point-to-a-tension-headache/ http://pressureheadache.net/i-have-had-a-headache-in-the-back-of-my-head-for-about-a-week-aall-the-symptoms-point-to-a-tension-headache/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:29:59 +0000 admin http://pressureheadache.net/i-have-had-a-headache-in-the-back-of-my-head-for-about-a-week-aall-the-symptoms-point-to-a-tension-headache/ Continue reading →]]> Question by : I have had a headache in the back of my head for about a week. Aall the symptoms point to a tension headache?
I have had a headache in the back of my head for about a week. It goes from the back of the head around the whole head and feels like a tight band around my head. It is continuous. It feels like a tension headache but can they last this long? I don’t feel tense.

Any response will be greatly appreciated.

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Answer by Douglas B
You have tight neck muscles causing that pain. The neck muscles go to the top of your head so any pain in the back of your head is from them. When tight the muscles pull on other muscles that go around the head. When they go into pain you have your headache. To get rid of the pains you have to free up your neck muscles and here’s how to do that:
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Put your hands alongside your head so your thumbs are on the front of the muscle under your ear and your fingers are on the back of the muscle behind your neck. Squeeze your thumb and fingers together and hold. Relax your body. When your fingers and thumb touch, about two minutes, slowly lower your head as far as you can, release the pressure but hold your neck lowered for another 30 seconds.
For best results relax your body first by taking a deep breath and exhaling then remain this relaxed.

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Twenty-Eight million Americans’ experience pain from migraine headaches and a great many have no clue as to what to do about it. That means about one person in every four household’s experiences throbbing head pain. Usually one side of the head, sometimes accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and/or sound. Some people may experience an “aura” before the migraine hits, characterized by flashes of light, zigzag lines, blind spots and numbness or tingling in the arm and face.

Migraine pain can last from 4 to 72 hours, knocking a person out of commission. But much can be done to minimize attacks and ease the symptoms.

This article contains advice from Seymour Diamond, M.D. director and founder of the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, who states that pain may be triggered by certain foods, stress, and a drop in barometric pressure or fluctuating hormones. But migraine triggers vary from person to person and what causes a migraine one month may not the next. That’s why Dr. Diamond has patients keep a diary that notes when headaches occurred and what brought them on.

In about one third of pain sufferers, certain kinds of foods set off a migraine. Potential triggers include ripened cheeses such as cheddar, Stilton, Brie, Emmentaler and Camembert; pickled or dried meats; and some vegetables, including broad, Lima, Fava beans and Snow Peas.

Pain Sufferers should also consider avoiding citrus fruits, figs, raisins, avocados, red plums, papayas, and bananas, plus skip all cheeses, chocolate, bread made with sourdough, excess caffeine or red wine an foods containing mono-sodium glutamate.

If you can’t change a situation that’s causing stress, at least “put it in perspective,” states Dr. Diamond. To control stress, do deep breathing, learn yoga, or rat chi, or consider biofeedback.

Playing video games can trigger a migraine pain attack, as can spending long hours at the computer. Remember to always wear sunglasses when you are outdoors, and place an antiglare screen on your video monitor.

At the Diamond Headache Clinic, doctors counsel against oversleeping and meal skipping. “If you want to sleep in on a Saturday at least get up and eat something,” says Dr. Diamond, “Then go back to bed.”

The American Migraine Study II found that only 48% of people whose symptoms met the definition of a migraine had been diagnosed by a doctor.

So, work with your doctor on a therapy plan that’s right for you. Some medications help keep migraine from occurring; others short-circuit the pain. Make sure you go through a process of elimination of all elements affecting your life-style and investigate your biological needs to filter out those things that work and those that don’t when it comes to dealing with Migraine pain.

Ray Attebery is the Managing Dir. for Daily Health Updates, a video news service for broadcast, & President for The Centre for Pain Relief in New York City.http://www.painreliefforpain.com, The Centre for Pain Relief and alsohttp://www.painreliefforpain.com/migrain_headaches.htm, for Headaches










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So i’m just recovering from a bad cold. But i still have unequal pressure in my right ear (the kind of feeling like when you’re on a plane). so yesterday i tried plugging my nose and blowing up my cheeks to pop it. It kind of worked but it made my forehead like right above the spot in between my eye brows hurt. It still hurts today. What did i do? How can i fix it? Is it just a sinus pressure headache?

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Answer by Meagan
You should try taking a warm shower/ bath.

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I apoligize for this being so long, but I am VERY frustrated..
For the past month or so, every time I drink alcohol, OR sometimes when I lay down flat to sleep. I develop inflammation and EXTREME pain to the extent of tearing out of my eye, and SOMETIMES a runny nose on the left side of my face. Areas of inflammation include the top middle of my left jaw, the jaw hinge, lymph nodes, temple, beside my left nostril, and in my sinus. And my eye has pain and sometimes feels like there is pressure behind it. It must be getting worse, as the past two times I played golf, it also happened as well.The only thing that relieves it is to rub an ice pack around all the inflamed areas for about half an hour.
I thought it was a root canal failure problem resulting in an infection, (but my dentist could see no sign of that in x-rays, (he put me through a course of antibiotics, but it didn’t do anything.) He thinks that it may involve my sinus area, and is to do with my blood pressure, (I have high blood pressure, and incomplete right branch bundle block.) But he says that it is puzzling that a problem that seems caused by blood vessels opening up, is relieved when I put ice on the area, as that ALSO causes blood vessels to open. He suggests that it may be an occlusion.??? The following information MAY help with this problem:
-About 20 years ago, I fell back onto a fiberglass seat on a boat when it jumped over a wave.
-I started to have EXTREME pains in the base of the left side of my neck. It felt like it was in the BASE of my brain stem.
-The only relief was chiropractic adjustments a few times a week.
-After two years of this, I just wished I was dead.
-A chinese kung fu expert and doctor visited my home town. He did some muxibustion, acupuncture and massages on me, and after 6 treatments, everything started to subside.
-Since then every once in awhile I have some pain there, but it gradually got better.
-About 4-5 years ago, I had a few bouts of pain in the neck and once got relief by seeing an osteopath did some adjustments on my neck and shoulders.
-When I developed blood pressure the ONLY medication I could take was a beta blocker. The others (which open blood vessels) caused headaches and EXTREME pain in the same lower neck area.
-Now I am on two “types” of beta blockers, as I was at the limit with the ternomin (100-200 mg) and couldn’t take anything else. the other is trandate, as it allows me to take up to 300 mgs (three times a day)
-I am allergic to aspirin, NSAID’S, some vitamins, and even a few herbs and spices..
-I have all the side effects of these meds. weight gain, acute eczema and phryisis, swollen ankles with edema.
-I have also developed arthritis in my ankles and other joints.This has left me unable to exercise as my knees and ankles really swell up if I try to jog, or even walk for a time on a tread mill.
-Recently I have had a few bouts of EXTREMELY painful gout, one that sent me to the ER. (I did the blood test and it showed that I had the high count of uric acid, but no rheumatoid arthritis, although I was previously diagnosed with arthritis especially on my left ankle (old injury) that has had me on crutches quite a few times after playing a few rounds of golf on consecutive days. (Although sometimes I was told it could be gout.) I am starting to feel like a REAL old man, although I played a LOT of sports in my day, including American Football and 20 years of rugby.
I stated all of the above facts because I feel that if the problem is not related to my teeth, it must be something to do with the problems from the old injury to the base of my neck, as it is a very similar pain. The questions are:
What my problem could possibly be, (or course.)
What type of doctor should I see about this?
What type of test, scans etc.. can be done to check the old injury site in the base of my neck, (I always thought that it was a pinch nerve (done by a partially dislodged bone?) that was eventually worked free enough to ease the chronic pain, but whenever my blood vessels in that area are opened for any reason, it pinches the nerve that is still partially trapped.
-What type of test/scans can be done to check to see if I do have an occlusion in my sinus area, or somewhere in the left side of the blood vessels in my brain?

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Answer by John p.
Hi there, Im not sure what age you are BUT if the pain and inflammation are one sided , i.e one side of the facial area or head then it is suggestive that the pain is following the path of 1 or more branches of the trigeminal nerve on that affected side of your face. Possibilities are TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA, or if you are older(50+) TEMPORAL ARTERITIS. The latter of these two conditions mentioned is by far the more serious and is sometimes called GIANT CELL ARTERITIS. G.C.A usually carries symptoms similar to yours but also you should look out for symptoms such as pain upon chewing, scalp tenderness( pain when brushing hair) and in some cases you can actually physically examine the arteries on the temples(side of the head) and they may physically look swollen. You have detailed a quite complex medical history here but i would say that all the symptoms your having may not all have the same source. I would suggest your HBP and relevant meds to be irrelevant. I would go straight to a GP and get referred to a neurologist. All my best, John

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I have been getting headaches on the top of my head and they are dull and annoying.. every day for a week ive had it and i was wondering if it was a tension headache. It hurts when i move my head alot and when i get up from laying down awhile. if not a tension headache, what kind is it? please help. i really appreciate it.

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Answer by pelican
A headache on top of the head is not as common as many other types of headaches, but is a type of chronic tension headache. However, sinus pressure is also a possibility for this kind of headache. If it does not resolve soon you should get it checked, but it is could be related to stress, fatigue, or anxiety.

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