Constant headache - what could it be?

Modern human life consists of constant tension. Among the common reasons, we highlight why the head hurts during the day but not at night:

• Full time job;
• lack of sleep;
• improper diet;
• rare trips to nature;
• smog;
• car exhaust gases, etc.

It is not surprising that in such conditions people constantly get headaches. Any disruption in the functioning of the human body is dangerous.

If you do not pay attention to the fact that your head hurts from time to time, this will lead, at best, to problems with blood vessels, and at worst, to death.

You cannot endure pain every day; consult a doctor immediately.

What causes chronic pain?

There are many reasons why headaches occur all the time, and it is impossible to diagnose them on your own. A doctor will be able to make a correct diagnosis, and he can name the following reasons why this disease appeared:

• diseases of the vascular system of the brain;
• poisoning;
• infectious diseases;
• formations in the brain;
• psychological problems;
• an excess in the body of microelements obtained by a person through food.

Throbbing pain in the head is caused by inflammation of the nerve endings in the blood vessels. These inflammations are caused by various reasons. This fact will help you in the first minutes to relieve the disease with special medications, which we will talk about later.

Why during pregnancy

Sometimes pregnant women have headaches for a long time. If you did not have injuries or diseases of the circulatory system before conception, do not rush to panic.
In most cases, mild headaches anywhere during pregnancy are caused by hormonal changes in the body. The most common cause is high blood pressure. Measure your blood pressure regularly during such attacks - write down the results and show them to your doctor during a routine examination.
Contact your primary care gynecologist immediately if you have had a skull, neck, or spinal injury before or during pregnancy. In this case, frequent pain could arise due to increased stress on the body and the site of injury. Such a case threatens not only the health of the expectant mother, but also the health of the baby.

Types of intense pain

There are several types of intensity. Doctors distinguish 4 common types:

1. Migraine. This is a constantly throbbing pain at the base of the forehead and temples. It is localized in one of the temples. Sensations on both sides of the head at once are very rare and occur in less than 1% of the world's population.
2. Voltage. An attack that compresses the entire head like a hoop. It’s easy to imagine: it’s as if a hoop was placed on top of your head and they were constantly squeezing it.
3. Bunch pain. Severe and unpleasant appearance, affects half of the face on the left or right, including the eye socket, eyebrows, jaw and throat.
4. Mixed character. A difficult species to diagnose because it mixes several species together at the same time.

If it is possible to describe the pain that is bothering you to the doctor, this will facilitate diagnosis and help find out the correct cause of its occurrence.

Symptoms of circulatory disorders in the brain

Often, headaches are accompanied by other symptoms that indicate the presence of certain diseases and will help the doctor diagnose the cause of their occurrence.

It can be:

• dizziness;
• nausea;
• pallor;
• pain in the back or limbs;
• noise in ears;
• epilepsy;
• heartache;
• general weakness and constant fatigue;
• constantly makes you sleepy, drowsiness;
• blurred or darkened vision;
• toothache.

Location of periodic discomfort

Localization of the striking pain will also help the doctor make the correct diagnosis. Let's look at all the common places where it occurs.

In the back of my head

One of the most common types of headaches. It is constant, pulsating, dull in nature. Aching headaches in the back of the head occur in hypertensive patients and people with problems with the circulatory system.

This type indicates pathologies in the neck and spine. Very often people with eating and sleeping disorders have headaches in the back of their heads.

In the forehead

Frontal pain is a sign of migraine or vegetative-vascular dystonia. Most often, unpleasant sensations in and near the forehead are a signal of problems with blood vessels. It occurs in people who smoke.

At the temples

The first sign of migraine and serious cerebral vascular disorders. It signals that the body is seriously ill and requires medical attention. Also indicates problems with sleep.

What does it indicate: possible diseases

Always a periodic headache is a symptom of a disease, sometimes not directly related to the brain. The main causes of permanent enhancement are the following diseases:

Injuries

The head hurts with injuries to the skull, brain, neck and spine. In the first two cases, the disease is directly related to disorders of the brain and signals the appearance of a concussion. In the last two cases, pain occurs due to damage to the nerve endings in the vertebrae.
Such pain may not go away, as it is a signal of serious damage to the body. If the illness appears after a blow, accident, fight, or any damage, consult a doctor immediately.

Osteochondrosis

One of the common causes of constant headaches. Attacks of osteochondrosis occur in the afternoon after work - the busiest time for the spine.

Osteochondrosis affects parts of the spine that are vulnerable to stress: the cervical and lumbar. These sections contain nerve endings that signal diseased areas directly to the brain, causing headaches.

Osteochondrosis begins to be treated immediately, since the advanced stage promises difficulties for the entire body and causes other dangerous diseases.

High or low blood pressure

Blood pressure problems are the most common cause of daily headaches. Hypertensive and hypotensive patients are dependent on changes in atmospheric pressure, which means that attacks can overtake such people at any time, especially during periods of constant weather changes: autumn and spring.

Such people not only suffer from headaches, but also constantly want to sleep.

In this case, people suffering from such diseases should only wait until the atmospheric pressure calms down and use painkillers and folk remedies.

Problems in the endocrine system

The human body reacts sensitively to negative changes in the endocrine system. After all, hormones practically control a person, and their excess or deficiency immediately affects health.

If you have a headache all day, and problems with the spine and blood pressure are excluded, you should immediately contact an endocrinologist. After all, problems with hormones can cause serious illnesses in the future.

Benign or malignant tumors

When a tumor appears in the brain tissue, regardless of its properties, headaches will certainly occur. One of the signs of a tumor is daily attacks of severe pain. They may appear in the morning, during the day or at night, accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

A person begins to see poorly, confuse tastes and smell non-existent smells.

Remember that modern medicine can cure brain cancer when diagnosed at the onset of the tumor. Write down your symptoms. If present, consult a doctor immediately. In the best case, a benign tumor is diagnosed, and in the worst case, a malignant one is eliminated at the stage of its inception.

What to do if you experience very frequent pain

When attacks occur every week day and night, and are not going to go away, then the best solution would be to contact your local doctor. It will help to identify the nature of the pain, its location and, based on this, make an approximate diagnosis. He will also refer you to highly specialized doctors who will confirm or rule out a particular diagnosis.

Diagnostic methods

When headaches occur, doctors examine not only the brain center. It cannot be ruled out that attacks are often a consequence of more serious diseases not related to the vessels of the head. Therefore, doctors often examine the entire body if the cause is unclear.
You need to go to your local therapist. Using the symptoms you describe and some simple diagnostic tools, he will confirm or refute this or that diagnosis, and refer you to a highly specialized doctor.

The therapist may not make a diagnosis. He should refer you to other specialists who will conduct a deeper examination of the body and identify the problem.

There are the following ways to diagnose the cause of a headache:

• radiography. The very first diagnostic method you will be directed to. It is necessary to determine the absence of serious damage to the bones of the skull and spine. If the x-ray does not reveal any visible abnormalities, proceed to other diagnostic tools;
• MRI. Detects vascular pathologies or the presence of tumors. An MRI of the whole body will show the presence of disorders in your body related to blood vessels and the nervous system.

This means that in most cases, MRI helps to make the correct diagnosis;

• Doppler ultrasound. This diagnostic method is used when MRI did not help, and there is a suspicion of serious vascular diseases of the head. Doppler sonography sees obstruction in blood vessels, vascular activity, and also where exactly in the vessels high or low pressure occurs, blood clots are a dangerous formation in the vessels that can lead to hemorrhage in the brain;
• Audiographic and ophthalmological examinations also reveal any disorders through the organs of vision and hearing. In this case, such diagnostic methods will help to identify very rare diseases of the ears and eyes that are not diagnosed by MRI and Doppler sonography.

Doctors highly recommend undergoing all these types of diagnostics, especially for daily migraines. It is a complete examination of the whole body that will be able to show the most clear picture of what is happening and make the most accurate diagnosis.

Why don't pills help anymore?

The first thing a person who has a headache every other day will do is drink a painkiller. Few people resort to folk remedies. But if the cephalalgia is continuous and occurs every day, sooner or later the painkillers will stop working.

The reason for this is the addiction of nerve cells and the entire body to the substances that are the active basis of such tablets.
Remember that painkillers are taken no more than indicated in the instructions for the drug, and no longer than 15 days. Otherwise, painkillers will have the opposite effect, and in the worst case, they will become dangerous.
Below you can watch a video about the correct use of pain medications.

First aid is needed for frequent attacks. The following drugs will help:

A drug	Description
Nurofen	An effective drug that reduces pain and fever. Contains the active substance – ibuprofen. It is safe even for children, so it is recommended for almost all types of cephalalgia. It is not recommended to take on an empty stomach and no more than 3 times a day.
Pentalgin	A drug based on analgin. It relieves dull pain well, but does little to help with acute pain. Its popularity declined after the discovery of a new generation of painkillers. Not recommended for use by children.
Citramon	The active ingredient is aspirin. It helps more with lowering the temperature, but also tends to reduce throbbing pain.
Ketanov	Contains paracetamol as a base. It relieves dull, aching and throbbing pain well. Weakly cope with acute, unbearable pain.
Ibuklin	Contains paracetamol and ibuprofen. An effective remedy for any situation, it also relieves fever.

Prognosis and prevention

Adults over the age of 30, especially men with an inconsistent daily routine, are at risk of developing cephalalgia. These are people experiencing lack of sleep, eating exclusively fatty foods without vegetables. People with bad habits: smoking and alcohol addiction are also susceptible to attacks.
People with old injuries to the skull, spine and brain center experience severe headaches. Teenagers who spend a lot of time in front of textbooks and the computer are especially at risk.
Elderly people and pregnant women also fall into the category of people suffering from cephalalgia.

The best prevention of such diseases is a healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition. By following a routine and proper diet, giving up bad habits, you reduce the likelihood of developing the disease to a minimum.