Headaches often?!
Question: I feel like I get headaches much more often than I should. Ever since I was a little kid I've been getting alot of headaches. I used to take advil for them but I stopped because I felt like I was taking the advil too often.
So my question is, how often does the average person get headaches? and how can I prevent/treat them?
They usually last all day, or a couple days, at least once or twice a week.
Answers: I feel like I get headaches much more often than I should. Ever since I was a little kid I've been getting alot of headaches. I used to take advil for them but I stopped because I felt like I was taking the advil too often.
So my question is, how often does the average person get headaches? and how can I prevent/treat them?
They usually last all day, or a couple days, at least once or twice a week.
I've been plagued by headaches as well and so I've looked into a lot of things that could cause it.
1) try getting your eyes checked. sometimes even if your vision is only slightly bad, it can cause strain on your eyes and headaches.
2) make sure you are drinking enough water, eating enough, and getting enough sleep. it sounds simple, but headaches can often be attributed to one of these things.
3) the main cause of almost all of my headaches is sinus pressure and I didn't realize it until I did a lot of internet searching. I thought that it was migraines, because it really is just as painful. This could be the cause of chronic headaches; it usually begins as pressure and then focuses around your eye area and forehead. If you think this might be the cause, you don't even need sinus medicine. I used them for a while (and they work, like advil/tylenol sinus). But you said you try not to take so much medicine, so try a saline nasal spray ( like simply saline). Someone suggested that I use that because it cured their congestion, and as weird as it sounds it has cured my headaches completely.
4) If you live in a rainy place, the change in pressure in the air before it rains causes plenty of people headaches.
It's hard to say what the average amount of headaches is because it depends on the person and how much sleep they get, how much they strain themselves, or read things on the computer, or stress themselves out.
Go to the doctor..
I got put on medicine because of mine.
I get headaches almost everyday that last for hours, the doctor put it down to stress.
You need to figure out what triggers them. It could be an allergy (e.g., to something you eat a lot), poor light, bad eyesight, stress/depression/anxiety, etc. Keep a headache journal and write down what you eat, what you do, anything unusual, what time of day you get a headache, how long they last, how severe the pain is, what you do to treat it. Then, bring that to your doctor who can help you figure it out.
Please go to the doctor. These headaches sound like they are getting longer and more severe. I don't mean to panic you but my father complained of headaches for years. He refused to go the doctor and when they did an autopsy on his body after he died in a work related accident they found a tumour in his brain that was causing all his headaches. Please I beg you see your doctor.
the same thing happened to me
and then i started to have dizzy spells
i passed out alot
and threw up
then i was in the hospital and my doctor told me my head aches were actually migranes
you should go to the doctor or nueralagist and get it checked