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Pain in back right side of my head?

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Dr. Keshab Paudel answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

How bad?: Headaches are very non specific. One sided pain could be due to migraine or sinusitis. Stress or cluster type of headaches. If you have a very bad headache, then that could be originating from brain and needs urgent evaluation.

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Answered 4/14/2019

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