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Dealing With Continuous Headaches

July 11th, 2011 by Owen Jones

A substantial number of individuals suffer from various types of headaches. However, for some people, these headaches are present all the time. For those people who have constant headaches, understanding what creates them may be a way of preventing these constant headaches from reoccurring.

Around 78% of people who suffer from a chronic daily headache and a small number who are the victims of chronic migraines can find relief from daily persistent headaches by studying their lifestyles.

For each of these people the treatment for their types of headaches will vary as the responses to their lifestyle alterations and their medication is different with each individual.

In many cases, the kinds of foods and drinks that are taken can be the reasons for unrelenting or continuous headaches. One of the main triggers has proven to be a chemical sweetener known as aspartame.

Various individuals who have a sensitivity to this chemical can get frequent daily relentless headaches because aspartame causes the blood vessels in the brain to dilate, which will produce similar symptoms as some forms of migraine headache

While caffeine based drinks are sometimes good for treating headaches too much caffeine can result in an effect called rebound. ‘Rebound headaches’ is the informal medical term for those headaches which are caused by an overdose of something.

However, in this perspective, you must realize that what is an overdose of coffee for one person, may be OK for a different person.

This overdose intake of caffeine is one source of constant headaches. Individuals who suffer from constant headaches ought to attempt to avoid caffeine drinks like coffee and certain sodas absolutely in an effort to ascertain whether caffeine is the cause of their constant headaches.

People can also have constant headaches because they smoke too much. Likewise, skipping meals, which causes low blood/sugar levels, can give rise to constant headaches.

To test these theories, reduce your intake of all tobacco products drastically or eradicate them altogether and eat small, healthy meals on a regular basis for, say, 21 days. Note the results in a diary.

As most of us comprehend, getting enough sleep is essential for the body. Some people who suffer from episodic tension headaches and constant headaches need to attempt to sleep for at least eight hours a night.

However, they ought to also make sure that they do not have constant headaches because they sleep too much. Occasionally oversleeping can trigger constant headaches too, so you have to work out how many hours sleep is correct for you.

There is proof that constant headaches can become aggravated by exposure to a lot of sunlight. Also when exercise is performed outdoors the sun causes the body to get dehydrated very quickly. Having plenty of water to drink and keeping the eyes shaded will minimize the possibility of getting constant headaches.

Constant headaches can also be caused by taking too much over-the-counter (OTC) headache medication. Sometimes, people who live under a immense amount of stress are subject to constant headaches. The solution here is, naturally, to examine your life and reduce the amount of stress that you come under.

Finding methods to decrease your stress or taking anti-stress medication can help to diminish the headaches. Talking with your GP is one method of finding out what you can do for your constant headaches.

People who suffer from constant headaches can reduce the chances of succumbing to an attack by changing the way that they live. Sometimes a couple of easy alterations are all that is needed, but it will take patience and perseverance to find the right headache treatment, like finding an allergy.

For instance, if coffee is known to bring on headache attacks, then decreasing one?s caffeine intake will help with stopping persistent headaches. Alterations like this are all that may be required.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on numerous subjects, but is now concerned with constant headachess. If you want to find out more go to Stopping Headaches.

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Narcolepsy

July 4th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Narcolepsy is a fairly rare sleep disorder, which causes sufferers to fall asleep at any second of the day whether they are weary or not. Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder, meaning that the brain sends orders to the body that it is exhausted and ought to go to sleep immediately and the body obeys whatever it is doing.

Attacks of narcolepsy most often occur while the sufferer is doing something quiet, like watching TV or reading, but it can also occur when eating or driving, which is of course extremely dangerous. Some people fall asleep in the middle of a chat or at work in the middle of a job.

As with a number of other disorders like restless leg syndrome and sleep apnoea and even snoring, it is not usually the sufferer that is first aware that he or she has a problem. Very frequently a spouse or colleague is the first to alert them to their condition and frequently it take quite a time before they will believe it and even longer before they do anything about it.

There are five indications of narcolepsy, but not all sufferers will experience all five of them: daytime drowsiness, broken sleep patterns (a kind of insomnia), sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations and cataplexy. If you have any of these symptoms, you should have yourself checked out, in case you also fall asleep at the wheel or when carrying out a dangerous manouevre at work.

The first and most noticeable symptom is daytime drowsiness. Sufferers of narcolepsy might have the irresistible urge to go to sleep during the day five or six times or more. Narcoleptics call these ’sleep attacks’ and say that they last for from five to ten minutes every.

Broken sleep patterns are not a ideal means by which to judge as many people suffer from insomnia for other reasons too.

About half the sufferers of narcolepsy experience sleep paralysis, which is when the sufferer can neither talk nor move for a number of minutes just before falling asleep and slightly after waking up. It can be very frightening for the narcoleptic and the family.

About the same percentage suffer from cataplexy, which is the loss of muscle control whilst awake. The bouts of cataplexy occur usually for short periods of time during episodes of great emotion. For instance, when the sufferer is very angry, very glad or very emotional. Occasionally, the sufferer falls down and goes limp – it looks as if they have dropped asleep, but| they are totally awake and fully conscious.

A hypnagogic hallucination happens just before sleeping or and slightly after waking up and involves seeing incredibly vivid images or and hearing incredibly lifelike sounds.

These experiences are often accompanied by sleep paralysis and most people find them very alarming. Normally, the sufferer cannot distinguish between this hallucination and reality during a bout.

There are other symptoms which occur sometimes such as migraine or headaches and ‘automatic actions’ which are not quite right, like putting books away in the fridge or writing off the edge of a page. Narcolepsy can be treated with pills.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many subjects, but is now concerned with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Sleep Apnea Surgery Techniques

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Finding A Remedy For Snoring For A Good Night’s Sleep

June 12th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Snoring is thought of as a ‘benign problem’ by most people who snore. A bit of a joke really. But it is no joke to people who have to listen to it. No joke at all. Snoring can also be a symptom that there is a deeper difficulty. It is similar to obstructive sleep apnoea, but is not automatically the same.

It is similar to obstructive sleep apnoea too in that the sufferer is hardly ever aware of the difficulty – that is left to a sleeping partner or everyone else in the house.

Lack of sleep may sound like bad luck or something that can be caught up on the next day, but in actual fact it goes far deeper than that. Those who have not had a good night’s sleep find it difficult to concentrate and might even nod off. This is naturally not a good idea if you are a driver.

Sleep apnoea causes a lack of quality sleep on a regular basis and so it is no shock that sufferers of obstructive sleep apnoea run three times more risk of a driving accident or a serious accident at work than others. That is bad enough, but the sleeping partner of a sufferer of obstructive sleep apnoea runs the same increased risk.

Apnoea also puts more strain on the heart and is a major issue in high blood pressure. It also starves the brain of oxygen with whatever effects that might have.

There are a number of methods of treating snoring (apnoea is normally treated with an oxygen mask called CPAP).

There are nose strips which stop the walls of the nose collapsing and reverberating, if that is your difficulty. There are extraordinary pillows that raise the head reducing the weight of a weighty neck on the windpipe. There are dental appliances to prevent the tongue and other parts slipping back into the airway causing an obstruction. There is acupuncture and there is hypnotism.

However, it is worth saying, that most of the loudest snorers are overweight. For these people, the first approach has to be to lose weight, because that will also benefit them in many other ways too.

Individuals find that changing their sleeping position assists with their snoring. The worst position for snoring is lying on your back. Lying on your side is a good way of decreasing snoring as can lying on your front.

The thing to keep in mind is the weight of your skin and flesh weighing down on your windpipe, especially on your throat. There is also the problem of your tongue and palate falling into the back of your throat and either vibrating or blocking the passage – lying on your side or front stops this happening.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is now involved with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. If you want to know more, please go to our web site at Sleep Apnea Surgery Techniques

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What Are Tension Headaches?

June 4th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Everybody knows what a headache is from personal experience, but some people suffer from headaches a great deal more frequently that others or what might be considered normal. There are quite a number of different types of headache, but by far the largest group is that of tension headaches.

Most individuals who have had a tension headache describe it as like having a very tight headband on. A trait of tension headaches is that the pain encircles the whole head: front, back and sides. However, the pain can also be in the back of the neck and even in the shoulder blades or collar bone region.

Normally, the pain is quite mild when compared with other kinds of headaches. Tension headaches most often last for around thirty minutes, but they can go on for days non-stop or they can come and go for a long period of time.

There is also a chronic kind of this sort of headache known as chronic tension headache, which roughly means that the sufferer has the headache for over fifteen days a month over a period of seven months.

Because the term ‘tension headache’ is a sort of blanket term, the way that people experience it can vary quite a lot. Some individuals take it in their stride and others find it a real impediment to their lives. A lot of individuals experience these headaches from the early morning or even as soon as they wake up.

Some of the indications sufferers of tension headaches have reported are: insomnia, which brings tiredness and frequently irritability with it; inability to concentrate; loss of appetite and painful neck and shoulder muscles.

These headaches have nothing in common with migraine (except that the pain is in the head). The two types of tension headache are known as: episodic and chronic.

You can try to cure episodic headaches if you feel the urge to on an ad hoc basis with either tablets or tension relief techniques. Typical headache tablets are aspirin and paracetamol. Typical tension relief techniques are yoga and meditation.

Sufferers from the chronic form of tension headache, however, ought to seek medical advice in order to find out if their is a significant underlying cause for the condition. Sometimes, the cures people take can become the cause of their condition procuring worse.

Regrettably, some people who suffer from episodic headaches often take so much medicine that it worsens the condition. In this case, stopping taking headache remedies can reduce the number of headaches you have.

Women suffer from tension headaches more frequently than men do and middle-aged women more frequently than other age groups which has led to speculation that a general cause could be hormonal. However, there are so many possible causes that it is difficult to say.

Some individuals find that some foodstuffs trigger a headache sometimes. Coffee or anything containing caffeine is cited as one. Dairy food has also been blamed by individuals; alcohol by others. If you suffer headaches more frequently than your friends, try writing a diary of what you have been eating for a week or two and note when you have the headaches. Is there a pattern? If you cannot sort it out by not eating certain foodstuffs, go to the doctor, but take your notes with you too.

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Tell Me About Sleep Apnea

May 29th, 2011 by Owen Jones

I wouldn?t bother so much having my bed partner lie on the sofa in the living room snoring, as I would if he suffered from sleep apnea, a more severe and harmful disorder. This breathing disorder during sleep that is followed by interrupted and shallow breathing can be treated easily provided it is found out in time and not mistaken for normal snoring.

Therefore it is best to understand what sleep apnea and its symptoms are, so we can help a loved one that is suffering from the disorder of sleep apnea.

You need to know that untreated sleep apnea could hamper you having sound sleep at night and make you feel tired, fatigued, mentally exhausted and least productive on the next day. The breathing pauses could last anywhere between 10 to 20 seconds, occur up to 100 times on the same night. This would reduce the amount of the deep natural sleep that is necessary for the body to function properly physically and mentally during the daytime.

Most of us know the implications of not having a good night?s sleep and this is no exception for a person with sleep apnea. He/she would suffer from chronic daytime tiredness, lack of concentration and slow reflexes that could make one have increased risks for accidents.

In addition the long-term results of sleep apnea are grave health disorders like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and weight gain.

Look out for symptoms of sleep apnea like loud and constant snoring, choking, gasping, snorting in sleep and long interruptions in breathing. In addition observe if he/she feels weary and sleepy during the day even after long hours of sleep at night.

In addition, look out for dry mouth or sore throat on waking up, morning headaches, restiveness, insomnia, moodiness, irritability or even depression. Waking up feeling restive, forgetful, with a lack of concentration power and recurrent trips to the bathroom at night could be other indications.

On observing these indications consult a specialist. He/she will prescribe an overnight stay in a hospital to observe and diagnose sleep apnea. It is best to understand that just snoring or some of these symptoms does not lead to a diagnosis of sleep apnea.

Snoring could be just ordinary and it does not interfere with the quality and amount of sleep and make one feel chronically tired, sleepy or lack of concentration, all of which could lead to accidents. However the onus of diagnosing rests with the doctor.

It is best to take into account that sleep apnea could be of various types. In an episode of obstructive sleep apnea, the soft tissues on the back of the throat relax and obstruct oxygen from entering the lungs during sleep and it causes a brief interruption of sleep.

However, central sleep apnea is less well-known but more serious and occurs when the brain fails to signal the breath regulating muscles to breathe and this could make one aware than one has woken up. The most serious of sleep apneas is the combination of both these apnea known as complex sleep apnea.

Believe me, sleep apnea could be readily discovered in the early stages with your bed partner?s help. A sleep diary would help him/her record your snoring, gasping, choking, or other unusual sounds. In addition a video recording of the patient would help you note signs of sleep apnea.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on several topics, but is now concerned with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Sleep Apnea Surgery Techniques

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Buying Baby Sleep Apnea Monitors

May 15th, 2011 by Owen Jones

People connect sleep apnea with overweight adults, mostly men, and this profile does match most sufferers, but in fact everybody stops breathing at some time when they are sleeping. Not each night as with sufferers of sleep apnea, but every now and then.

Even babies can stop breathing sometimes. This can be a frightening experience for parents and carers. If you are anxious about your baby suffering from apnea, you could buy one of the baby sleep apnea monitors.

There are three types of apnea, which means ‘without wind’ and derives from Greek: central, obstructive and mixed or complex apnea. Obstructive apnea is by far the most common form and it is also the reason why babies get apnea the majority of the time as well.

Even though a small amount of apnea occasionally is fairly standard, constant apnea could be a sign that something is wrong medically. Two of the causes in babies could be enlarged adenoids or tonsils, which could have significant consequences.

It is a problem to tell what is going on with babies at the best of times, but when a baby is suffering from apnea, you might become aware of snoring, gasping, colouration and restlessness.

Obstructive apnea normally only happens during sleep when muscles are relaxed, however, central apnea can take place at any time of the day or night. Central apnea is caused by a part of the brain that controls breathing not working in the correct manner. This type of apnea is more common in premature babies.

Mixed or complex apnea is a blend of the other two kinds and is also fairly common in children.

Your doctor, the nurse or the midwife will check for apnea and may suggest that you get one of the various baby sleep apnea monitors. One of the concerns with these baby monitors is that none of them is completely dependable to detect the cessation of breathing. Therefore, the better baby monitors will have a heart beat detector as a back-up.

The monitor must also be able to activate an alarm outside the room where the baby is, so that the parent or carer can walk around the house without having to worry about checking up on the baby regularly

These remote alarms are usually wireless these days and they might also have a vibration alert. This is a very useful role. The last thought is the power source. Batteries alone are not really good enough.

The best forms are rechargeable. That is, they function like a mobile phone. This means that the sensor can be attached to the cot and the baby wherever it is, even when there is no local power source.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on several subjects, but is now involved with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Sleep Apnea Surgery Techniques

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Children Who Sleepwalk

May 14th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Sleepwalking or somnambulance is a strange sleep disorder that affects up to fourteen percent of children at some time before they are teenagers. About a quarter of them will experience more than one bout of sleepwalking. For some reason, more boys than girls sleepwalk but most somnambulists grow out of the problem before they become teenagers.

Sleepwalking is in fact a brain disorder as well as a sleep disorder, but it is a brain disorder of the nervous system which usually corrects itself as the sufferer gets older. By way of explanation, usually, as people wake up, the whole body and whole brain wake up together, whereas with sleepwalkers, the mobility part of the brain and the body wakes up, but the cognitive/awareness part of the brain stays asleep, at least for a short time.

At least that is one explanation, because as with so many items to do with the brain, no one actually knows, all that can be agreed by everyone, is that the child is still in a deep sleep whilst it is wandering about.

Whilst the child is wandering around, the eyes are open, but the face seems extraordinarily impassive. The child can see but still trips or stumbles and still bumps into items. Normally, the child will not pay attention to a conversation or react to hearing its name.

The most common time for an bout of sleepwalking to take place is within the first two hours of sleep. The periods of somnambulance normally last from fifteen minutes to two hours and the sleepwalker may get dressed and go outside.

Although it is wise to bring this condition to your doctor’s attention, no remedy is normally necessary other than putting better security on all exterior doors and locking windows at low level to prevent the child from leaving the house.

They normally grow out of sleepwalking sooner or later. If you child sleepwalks, all you should do is guide it back to bed without waking it up unnecessarily. It is not dangerous to wake up a sleepwalker, but not necessary either.

Approximately one percent of adults sleepwalk too, and this one percent are not necessarily the ones who sleepwalked as children. Adult sleepwalking normally has other more prosaic causes such as stress, anxiety and insomnia or even some medical conditions such as epilepsy. When the reason goes away so does the sleepwalking.

Treatments differ considerably relying on the severity of the ’sleepwalk’. Does the sufferer merely go down and sit in the living room or does the sufferer open the door and go outside where there is heavy traffic? Hypnotism is one treatment.

There are other safety measures that people living with sleepwalkers can or perhaps should take. Because sleepwalkers are prone to bumping into items, make certain there is nothing projecting anywhere that could poke them in the eye. Hang bells or wind chimes in places where they tend to go and on doors that they use in order to alert you that they are on the move.

Lock some doors with deadbolts and take the key out and finally make sure that all low-level glass is toughed and covered by curtains at night so that they do not attempt to walk through them without first opening them.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on several subjects, but is now involved with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. If you want to know more, please go to our website at Sleep Apnea Surgery Techniques

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Non-Medicinal Remedies For Stress And Anxiety

May 6th, 2011 by Owen Jones

A surfeit of stress can result in all types of problems both mental and physical. The mental issues that can arise from stress include anxiety attacks, although there can be other reasons for anxiety attacks as well. Furthermore, it appears that the trend of anxiety attacks is on the up. This is possibly because of the increased levels of stress that everyone experiences.

You just cannot escape tales of misery and conflict in the newspapers and on the TV. It seems that news casters take pleasure in in telling us how much trouble we are in from all sorts of things from terrorists to diabetes.

They also never tire of warning us of the risks from paedophiles, rapists and murderers. It is no surprise that everybody is stressed or that some people have converted this stress into anxiety and anxiety attacks or panic attacks.

These attacks are characterized by a sudden feeling of panic for no reason at all or unjustifiable anxiety. These anxiety attacks are very upsetting for those who suffer from them frequently.

There are many prescription drugs available, but these days many people try to manage without drugs, preferring more natural cures. One detail that many sufferers remark on, is that they feel much worse if they have a hangover.

Not that they have anxiety attacks while they are drinking, but that they get an increased number the following day, if they have a hangover. It follows then, that you may be able to lessen the frequency and the harshness of your panic attacks, if you do not drink too much.

In this vein, sufferers have also noticed that they get more recurrent and more severe attacks of anxiety if they are exhausted or worn out. Getting a good night’s rest will clearly help, if this is one of the causes of your panic or anxiety attacks.

On the dietary front, vitamin B12 has been pointed to as having a advantageous effect on sufferers. The vitamin B group help the brain to produce serotonin, which is the body’s happy drug. A lack of seratonin can create depression. Therefore, ensure that you get your daily recommended amount (RDA) of vitamins in the B group, especially vitamin B12. B12 is readily available in natural foods, it is even in cornflakes, just make sure that you are getting sufficient.

Many people have had large amounts of success by restricting their use of sweeteners too. This includes normal sugar, as well as artificial sweeteners like saccharin. In order to achieve the biggest benefit you should try to monitor your mental reaction to sweeteners. Some may be perfectly OK for you while others may not.

Caffeine has also been linked with anxiety, so it might be worth attempting to do without ordinary tea, coffee and coke, to see if that makes a difference. You could try decaf, if you miss the taste of coffee or herbal teas.

Another suggested home remedy that has provided great benefits is physical activity. If you feel an attack coming on, try to ‘take your mind off it’ by distracting yourself. A simple walk might be enough or a chat with someone.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on several of topics, but is currently involved with work on high blood pressure charts. If you want to know more or check out some great offers, please go to our website at High Blood Pressure Recipes.

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What Are Chronic Headaches?

April 28th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Most individuals who only get headaches very infrequently maybe do not comprehend that there are different types of headache. Different kinds of headaches have an effect on different parts of the head and even headaches that have an effect on the same region last different lengths of time. The ones that last the longest, giving almost continuous pain, are known as chronic headaches.

Chronic headaches can seem like episodic migraine – a throbbing in the temples – but unlike episodic migraine, chronic headaches can go on for days, weeks, months and even years. One of the causes of chronic headaches is stress.

One of the features of these headaches is that the stress can increase in a vicious circle. That is, stress brings on the headache, then you worry about the headache which causes more stress, which creates more pain and so on. This is a very difficult cycle of events for some people to break out of.

You can even bring on a stress-related chronic headache by worrying that you may get a headache. It is very depressing, because it seems that you only cannot win.

Sufferers of chronic headaches have a miserable time of it and normally make life miserable for everybody near them as well. Therefore, if you are in constant pain, do something about it.

The first thing to attempt is to discover the reason for your stress or anxiety. Something is starting your headaches and you almost certainly know what it is.

You have to examine your life and find out what is so distressing in it. Is it your spouse, your job, your neighbours or your children? Is it an illness of yours or a close friend or member of the family? Money and debts? It could be a blend of several factors, in which case, you will have to de-stress them one by one.

This is the only sure method of countering chronic headaches that are brought on by stress. You can take tablets to kill the pain and tablets to put you to sleep and tablets to calm you down, but in the long run, you know that they are not actually helping and that knowledge will stress you out even more.

Other types of chronic headaches are chronic cluster headaches and chronic tension headaches. Episodic cluster headaches will happen each now and again, but chronic cluster headaches happen a number of times a day for years. Somewhere between 10% an 15% of sufferers from cluster headaches get chronic indications.

There are various names for chronic cluster headaches depending on the gravity of the pain.

An episodic tension headache is the most frequent kind of headache. Everybody gets them from time to time, but a chronic tension headache is when you get periods of pain lasting for at least 15 days in a three month period.

If you suffer from chronic headaches, do not merely take medication or do not just sit it out. You require professional advice once you suspect that you have a difficulty. You could attempt to fight it alone by taking up a sport or yoga to reduce your stress and tension, but it actually is better for you to tackle the difficulty of chronic headaches with the support of a professional.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a lot of topics, but is at present concerned with chronic headaches. If you would like to find out more go to Stopping Headaches.

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Are There Sexual Headaches?

April 27th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Although orgasm is usually a pleasurable and happy activity for most people, it can be painful for others who find that it triggers coital headaches. For these people, sexual activity can actually cause these coital headache attacks.

Technically, a headache, or cephalalgia, is a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and sometimes the neck too. They can be classified into two main categories: primary or idiopathic, and symptomatic, although there are other ways of classifying them too; for example by severity.

Put simply, primary headaches have a known or unknown cause, whereas symptomatic headaches are often caused by trauma. Primary headaches include: migraine, tension headaches, cluster headaches and coital headaches, amongst others.

Coital headaches, also called coital cephalalgia or sexual headaches, is a rare, but severe type of headache that starts in the nape of the neck during sexual intercourse, but before climax. It can occur in all conditions where climax is the expected result. The pain can move to behind the eyes and can then be even more severe. Typically the pain will last from a few minutes to an hour or so, but it has been known to last for days in the worst cases.

It is surprising to many to discover that men are three times more likely to experience coital headaches than women and the people most at risk are those between 20 and 25 and 30 and 44. Doctors do not really understands why this should be. Coital headaches afflict about one percent of the population, although this figure could be a lot higher due to people being embarrassed to discuss it.

Coital headaches are benign, meaning that they cause no long-term ill effects, as far as we know. It seems that people taking sexual stimulants, like Viagara, are about 10% more at risk to a bout of coital headache. In fact, besides the obvious, temporary pain, the worst effects of coital headaches are differing levels of dizziness, confusion and stiffness of neck.

However, it is still worth seeing a doctor though, especially in the early cases, just to exclude the more severe causes of headaches, such as brain tumours and blood clots. However, the doctor can do rather little to help by way of cure. He may suggest a complete abstention from any form of sexual activity for a period ranging from days to weeks or he may suggest trying taking medication some time before sexual foreplay begins.

Some of the headache medications that may be used are indomethacin, imitrex, zomig and propranolol, although if the headaches persist, your doctor may suggest daily preventive medication. People suffering from frequent coital headaches may experience a positive response to migraine preventive medications, such as beta blockers or verapamil. Non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) such as ibuprofen may also be helpful. Coital headaches and migraines are also more likely to occur if a person is in poor physical shape.

However, the cure for coital headaches for many people can be as simple as bringing your weight up or down to the normal weight for your size. Coital headaches can also be cured in some sufferers by an increased level of exercise, although this could bring on exertion headaches in a few cases.

Now the good news is that most headaches related to sexual activities are not at all serious in nature. In fact, research actually states that orgasm can stop headaches and even migraine in some instances. This means that for some adults, refusing sex may actually be the cause of their headache in the first place.

If you have a problem with migraine or headaches, you should definitely visit our website on Stopping Headaches.

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