tension headache

“There was a pain in my head.”My workplace was very stressful this week, so my head is constantly aching“
“I can’t stand the light or sound, as if my head is boiling like a boiler“

tension headache

 If you are setting up similar sentences in certain periods without reason or reason, this may indicate a tension headache. Memorial Şişli Hospital, one of the most common diseases of daily life and busy work tempo, is tension type headache. Dr. Abdullah Özkardeş gave information about headache and gave important advice.tension headache

More than 10 million people go to a doctor or emergency room per year for headaches. More than 300 medical diseases are known to cause headaches. Headaches can be divided into 2 groups:

Primary headache: migraine, tension headache and cluster headache. Over 90% of headaches fall into this group.
Secondary headaches: Headaches due to another disease (Infections, tumors in the head, diseases related to the vein)

Tension type headache is the most common type of headache

Tension-type headache (GBA) affects 69% of men and 88% of women in any period of their lives. Although it can be seen at any age, it is mostly seen in young adults. It can be divided into two groups called ılabilir Episodic “and” chronic “:

Episodic pain is a pain that lasts for 30 minutes to 7 days, with both compressive and compressive character and holding both sides of the head. There should be at least 10 attacks. Pain can spread to the forehead and neck. They occur less than 180 times a year and are not severe pain. They are pain that does not increase with physical activity and nausea. There may be sensitivity to one of the light and sound.

In chronic tension-type headaches, the patient suffers at least 15 times a month and at least 6 months per year.

Pain Coming After Stress

There may be stress or tension at the beginning of the disease. Although these factors do not cause muscle contraction or decrease in blood flow, it may cause sensitivity in the surrounding muscles. Depression in chronic tension headache can be searched as a underlying cause.

 When should I go to the doctor?

Patients with increased frequency and severity of pain
Patients with pain after age 50
Patients with pain, fever, stiffness, skin rash
If the patient has been diagnosed with HIV infection or cancer, he should be consulted.

Conditions to contact the emergency department

Patients who had no headaches or suffered from the worst pain that they have ever experienced. If the headache is explosive and very abrupt, it is necessary to distinguish the bleeding that may be in or around the brain.
Patients with headache, loss of vision, loss of strength in the arm or leg, speech and impaired speech.
Patients who have suffered trauma before headache should go to the emergency services of the hospitals.

The diagnosis of tension headache is based on the patient’s history and normal examination. If there is doubt about other causes that will make headaches, CT or MR can be withdrawn. Laboratory investigations may also be considered necessary for other suspected causes.

Take care when using painkillers

Many GBA patients experience pain with aspirin and paracetamol. Irregular use of these painkillers may shift GBA from an episodic type to a chronic type. More painful pain medications can be given for pain that does not exceed simple painkillers. Preventive therapies such as antidepressants, beta-blockers and anticonvulsants can be used for pain that cannot be controlled by painkillers. These drugs may be beneficial, even if the disease is migraine. Antidepressant drugs, which are usually new and fast, are used and the side effects of these drugs are quite low. Antidepressant drugs should be used for at least 1lar2 months to decide whether they are effective or not. If the patient has depression or anxiety disorder, or if there is excessive use of drugs, all medications can be discontinued before the effective treatment begins.

Measures against tension-type headache

Get rid of busy work tempo
Take your time
Plenty of walking
Take short-term warm showers
Don’t read books and watch movies like this

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