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Causes of Headaches

The brain tells you when other parts of your body hurt, but it can’t feel pain itself. Most headaches happen in the nerves, blood vessels, and muscles that cover a person’s head and neck.These nerves send a rush of pain messages to the brain, and this brings on a headache.
Causes of Headaches are: Stress, emotional stress, depression, alcohol usage, skipping meals, changes in sleep patterns, medications, poor posture can cause neck and back pains. A blow to the head, or it can be an indication of a serious medical problem (rare).  

When to take a headache seriously and call a doctor:

  • It interferes with your daily activities.
  • You develop a headache right after activities
  • Your headache comes on suddenly and is explosive
  • Your headache comes on suddenly and is Violent
  • Your headache is “the worst ever.”
  • You also have slurred speech
  • You also have a change in vision
  • You have problems moving your arms or legs
  • You have loss of balance or memory
  • Your headache gets worse over 24 hours.
  • You also have fever, stiff neck, nausea, and vomiting
  • Your headache occurs with a head injury.
  • Your headache is severe and just in one eye, with redness in that eye.
  • You just started getting headaches
  • You have vision problems and pain while chewing, or weight loss.
  • Your immune system is weakened by disease
  • Your immune system is weakened by medicine
  • You have a history of cancer and develop a new headache.

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