Mike Carruthers:
When you get a headache, and everybody gets a headache, what exactly
is going on, that hurts? Jerry
Swanson:
You ask a very important, but difficult question to answer.
Mayo
Clinic Neurologist Dr. Jerry Swanson, author of the book, The
Mayo Clinic on Headache...
Despite
the fact that this is one of the commonest headaches (with over
fifty percent of the population in a given year experiencing
one of more tension type headaches), we don’t yet really quite
understand what underlies this.
Dr. Swanson
says you should see a doctor about your headaches if you think
you should see a doctor about your headaches or if they’re interfering
with your life.
There
are some warning signs that tend to raise concern about a serious
underlying headache. Since we know migraine tends to begin in
individuals who are young or middle age, when we see older individuals
coming in with new headaches, even if they sound like migraine
we begin to worry a little bit about that. Headaches that are
progressing, that is getting worse; headaches that come on suddenly
sometimes called a "thunderclap headache" because
it’s as though, kaboom, they’ve been struck by a lightening
bolt; headaches that interrupt sleep.
A
headache by itself is almost never a symptom of a brain tumor;
brain tumors always have other symptoms. And what do you take
when you get a headache; aspirin, Advil, Tylenol?
Any
of those drugs might work fairly well although I will say that
Tylenol isn’t as effective as some of the others.
At
somethingyoushouldknow.net,I’m Mike Carruthers, and that’s
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