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Vascular headache
Vascular headache is an old term for certain types of headaches that have now been reclassified. For example, cluster headaches and migraine headaches were once called vascular headaches.
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A 43-year old asked:
Please describe a vascular headache?
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What's best for a vascular headache?
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A 35-year old asked:
How do you describe a vascular headache?
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A 31-year old asked:
What are the symptoms of a vascular headache?
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A 39-year old asked:
How do vasoconstrictors relieve vascular headache?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Vascular headache?
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A 36-year old asked:
How you diagnose a vascular headache over another kind of headache?
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A 47-year old asked:
What makes a headaches a vascular headache?
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A 35-year old asked:
What's better for a vascular headache? Codeine or coffee
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A 37-year old asked:
What is the difference between a tension headache and a vascular headache?
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A 58-year old female asked:
What are some natural vasodilators or things i can do to prevent vascular headaches?
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A 36-year old asked:
Help doctors! what're vascular and tension" headaches"?
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A 42-year old asked:
Could vascular problems in your leg have an impact on migraene headaches?
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A 49-year old asked:
Do vascular problems in your leg have an impact on migraine headaches?
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A 51-year old male asked:
Many people i have read cope with Migraine Aura without headache and have over 6 or more a mth for over 30yrs which havent caused them Vascular events without taking medication does the body get used to them?Is it more inconvenience than danger?
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A 57-year old female asked:
I have been having problems with double vision, headaches and vertigo. MRI showed Vascular Tortuosity. Tortuosity of the vertevrovasilar junction of the atheromatous. Along with Mild asymmetry of the ventricular system with right predominance?
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A 56-year old female asked:
L Subclav. Steal- worse headaches worsened blurry vision, altered sleep pattern. Which surgeon to fix, Vascular, Neurosurgeon, or both? Help?
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A 38-year old female asked:
I'm 38, healthy & had a CT scan w/ contrast for a headache. They said my test was perfect but later I saw the result on MyChart that said, "There is mild tortuosity and irregularity consistent with mild cerebral vascular disease" Should I be worried?
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A 62-year old female asked:
I have a small vascular malformation in my right frontal lobe which bled mildly in 2007. Since then it has grown only slightly from 3mm to 4mm (last MRI was in Oct 2014.) However, I have had a nearly 6 weeklong headache localized in my right forehead that
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A 38-year old male asked:
Would a bleed in brain from vascular malformation or trauma be sever? Such as major symptoms. Have never had major symptoms, but minor dizzy, tinnitus, back of headaches. MRI result shows possible past trauma. But never had any MAJOR symptoms.
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A 35-year old asked:
Do vascular headahces mean I have vascular disease?
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A 30-year old asked:
What is the treatment for vascular headache?
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A 46-year old asked:
Vascular headache ---worry about aneurysm?
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A 43-year old female asked about a 41-year old male:
If my husband don't drink coca cola he get a headache is it possible?
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A 43-year old male asked:
My child had a minor headache that cleared. Does he have a concussion?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Is it safe for a man to take midol if he has a headache n nothing else to take?
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A 34-year old asked:
Is it safe for a man to take midol if he has a headache and nothing else to take?
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A 20-year old female asked about a 23-year old male:
My husband gets headaches after he goes during sex. What could be the cause of the headache?
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A 20-year old female asked about a 23-year old male:
My husband gets headaches after sex, when he finishes, what could be the cause of the headache?
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A 16-year old female asked about a male:
My brother has been having severe headache every time he moves. Is this the result of dehydration?
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