All You Need To Know About Headache

Headaches are one of the most common sicknesses affecting forty five million Americans. You may find headaches miserable and torturing. Some ten million Americans visit physicians each year for headache treatment. Every year, Americans spend more than four billion dollars on over-the-counter drugs for headache relief. Lost productivity and medical expenses for headaches cost American industry about fifty billion dollar every year.

Headaches can be categorized into two groups: primary and secondary. Primary headache cannot be identified to any medical conditions. In other words, it is not just a symptom of some other disease. It affects 95% of the headache sufferers. Tension headache, cluster headache, and migraine headache fall into this group. The other 5% accounts for secondary headache such as sinus headache. It can be traced to medical conditions such as allergies or hypertension.

Beside general migraines, there are also migraine headaches variants such as basilar artery, opthalmoplegic, hemiplegic, and abdominal migraines. They are also known as atypical migraine or complicated migraine. Most of times, children and toddlers are affected. these migraines do not require doctor's examination as they are not life-threatening and debilitating.

Not a single factor can trigger migraine as it combines with other physical, environmental, dietary, behavioral, and pharmacological factors. To learn more about triggers, most doctors advise you to keep a headache diary or journal to keep track of the detailed events leading to headache.

Going over your lifestyle and planning ahead may reduce the impact of your headaches. You can prepare yourself by

• watching out for early signs of a headache

• having some head pain medication available

• keeping a contingency plan when you've headache at work and at home

Headaches can be a serious problem especially when it affects you, your job, your family, your friends, and your personal relationship. If no treatment works for you, it is better for you to visit doctors who specialize in headache treatments or headache clinics. These clinics reported high success rate among migraine headache sufferers.