Health Med

As the name suggest, this type of headache is caused by tension and can be very painful headache even more than the most excruciating headache migraine.

It can be cured with various over the counter medicines like aspirin, naproxen, ibuprofen or acetaminophen.  But it is not always advisable to try it regularly as one might even got addicted to it.  Although these drugs will have some minor to severe side effects if taken regularly.

Apart from over the counter medicines, one can even take the prescription medicines offered by the physician like Naprosyn, Indocin or even Torodol.  As always these drugs too have side effects like nausea, vomiting, and sometimes even ulcer.

Even opioids can be used to cure tension headaches.  Like flurbiprofen, fenoprofen, etc.

There are even drugs like barbiturates and ergots which can cure the tension headaches with much less side effects than others.  Physicians might even suggest muscle relaxants like Soma.  But in reality these are not actually muscle relaxors but are analgesics which act as pain relievers rather than muscle relaxors.

As most of these drugs are habit-forming and hence should not be used regularly as it might lead to other serious ailments in the future.

There are different types of headaches which come in different forms and almost might occur on a daily basis.  It might caused due to tiredness, lack of food and might also be due to other hidden illness.

Among them stress headache is the most common headache type.  Although it can be cured by taking medicines, although taking it regularly is not much recommended as many would suffer stress headache almost on a daily basis due to this fast paced lifestyle.

Some say that stress headache is hereditary.  It comes along with severe neck pain too.  It might caused due to stress at family, work or with friends or for other reasons.

It might continue for hours or sometimes will be relieved pretty quickly, all depends on various factors.  Although it is not as severe as migraine headache, sometimes it could be rather annoying when we do our daily house or work activities.  It might lead to difficulty in concentration as well as irritability.

Most of the time it is relieved by pain relievers.  As always it should not be taken frequently as it might lead to other tough situations in the future.  It is better to follow techniques on management of stress to relieve it permanently.