what are common symptoms of a tension headache?

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What are the symptoms of tension headache?

Answer 1

See below: Signs and symptoms of a tension headache include: dull, aching head pain the sensation of tightness or pressure across your forehead or on the sides and back of your head tenderness on your scalp, neck and shoulder muscles occasionally, loss of appetite.

Answer 2

Tension headache: Some of symptoms of a tension headache are a dull, aching head pain, sensation of tightness or pressure across your forehead or on the sides and back of your head, tenderness on your scalp, neck and shoulder muscles.

Answer 3

Headache: Usually babies do not have headaches but if you notice that your baby is him/herself please contact the doctor.

Answer 4

Very hard to tell: It is very hard to tell if a baby has a headache. We assume babies and toddlers have headaches because we know older children and adults have headaches. We presume that the symptoms children and adults have during headaches are similar to the symptoms babies would have during headaches, such as: cold symptoms, fevers, vomiting, poor appetite, fussiness, tiredness, restless sleep, etc. .

Answer 5

Probably: Although rebound headaches are more common from medicines like nsaids (motrin, aleve, (naproxen) etc), it is possible to get rebound headaches from many things, even caffeine. Slowly backing off of medications is user a safer bet.

Answer 6

Headache : Yes it can. Chronic use of any as needed headache or pain medication can cause rebound headaches when stopped.

Answer 7

Could be: You can also experience dizziness, vertigo.

Answer 8

Not always: You could be suffering from migraines as all these symptoms can be present during a migraine disorder. If these symptoms occur when you are traveling, then they are most likely motion sickness :).

Answer 9

Cause of headache: The best way to tackle a headache is to figure out what's causing it in the first place - is it a migraine, from not eating breakfast this am, from skipping a dose of a medicine, from not getting enough sleep? There can be many reasons. For the run of the mill dull headache, i usually like to try some Ibuprofen and/or tylenol (acetaminophen) first and see how it feels after an hour or so.

Answer 10

Headaches: Your headaches could be coming from tension, dehydration, lack of sleep/poor sleep, skipping meals, stress, teeth grinding, sleep apnea/snoring, or chronic sinus problems among other things. See a doctor to get checked out so you can get som ehelp for your headaches.

Answer 11

Get checked out: A good start at finding potential headache triggers would be to maintain a diary. Every time you have a headache write down what you were doing, the foods you ate that day, alcohol, smoking, caffeine, stress, how much sleep you had the night before, eye strain, etc. Try to find patterns in your headache so that you can learn what things to avoid. Get checked by your doctor.

Answer 12

Hormones: When you have your lh surge, your estrogen level is high and your ovary has a small cyst that is about to burst (ovulate.) moderate exercise such as a brisk walk or swim is probably helpful. Tylenol (acetaminophen) would also be a reasonable and safe.

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