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It is a headache, having a headache. Almost all of us has suffered from a headache at sometime or the other for some a headache is a companion and life can be a painful hall of wasted time. The most important step to cope with headache is to identify the type of headache one is suffering from. Intension headaches to handed headache a feeling of tied band around the head. The head exist with pain in the neck and shoulders. It usually follows activities such as long stretches of driving, typing or sitting on the desk. They are usually sought timed but can lasts for weeks and months. A headache is usually caused due to spinal miss alignment to the head. Due to poor posture, sleeping on the stomach with the head turned to over bending over position for long time makes it worse. In migrain headaches (one handed headaches) . The pain is usually in one side of the head and may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting,irretability and bright sports of freshes of life. The headache is make worse by activity specially by bending the throwing pain in the head gets worse by noise and light. Certain triggers for migraines may be chocolate, caffeine smoking and in certain food items. The pain may lasts from 8 to 24 hours and there may be a hangover for 2-3 days.

Migraines are often preceded by changes in sight and sensation. There us usually a family history of migraines. In a headache the pain originates nit for the brain but from irritated nerve of muscles, blood vessels and bones. This send pain signal to the brain which then judges the degree of distress and relays it to appropriate sites. This is knownas referred pain and occurs due to sensation over load. Thus though most headache starts as the base of skull. The reffered pain is felt typically behind the eyes. Factor causing headache are not fully understood. But it us known that a shift in the level of body hormones and chemicals, certain food amd drinks and environmental stress can trigger them.

If headaches trouble you often visit the doctor who will take a full health history, related to diet, lifestyle, stresses the type of headache, triggering factor and relief measure.