Headaches of Unknown Origin
Headaches are a common symptom in the practice of physicians and neurologists.
They are of short duration, such as colds, quickly subsiding after recovery. There are also frequent, recurring headaches.
In most cases, headaches of vascular origin are due to dilatation or spasm of the intracranial and extracranial arteries.
Intense pain is the stimulation of the meninges (meningitis, subarachnoid hemorrhage). Some headaches are accompanied by vomiting without nausea.
Pain in the head – Both locally and diffuse headache often occurs in diseases of the eye.
Headache with cervical osteochondrosis and is not limited to the neck and head, and can radiate to the frontal-orbital region.
Adjacent groups are tension headaches caused by emotional overload, with the pathogenetic mechanisms being muscle spasms.
Rare and therefore difficult to detect headaches can occur with a sharp narrowing of the nasal passages, caused by allergic rhinitis.
Types of headaches
Frequent pain
The main reasons are their vascular disease (hypertension, temporal arteritis, and cerebral atherosclerosis), osteochondrosis, and eye disease (glaucoma), and teeth, migraine.
Pain attacks
Characteristic of high blood pressure (hypertensive crises), pheochromocytoma, migraines.
Pain accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
Characteristic of pheochromocytoma, hypertension, and diseases of the nervous system.
Increased intracranial pressure may be hypertension, cerebral hemorrhage, and brain tumors.
Pain at night or early morning. Characteristic of increased intracranial pressure.
Pain on one side of the head.
Characteristic of migraine.
Pain is accompanied by visual disturbances (flicker flies before the eyes, blurred vision) and/or photophobia.
Characteristic of high blood pressure, migraine.
Recurring headaches from one side of the face, very strong attacks.
Characteristic of the trigeminal neuritis – inflammation of one of the branches of the cranial nerves, through which there is sensitivity in the face, by the motion of facial muscles.
Symptoms of the disease
A classic migraine attack begins with flickering. Following the aura, which lasts from several minutes to an hour, there is a one-sided headache in the frontal-temporal region, and often the pain extends to the entire half of the head.
Pain is usually accompanied by nausea and vomiting. The attack lasted several hours.
In contrast to classical migraine (only 10% of migraine pain). Common migraine has no visual aura.