Dealing With Headaches

If you tell your doctor you have a problem with headaches and don’t give any more information, you’re going to get a really distressed look. That’s because headaches are a symptom of many hundreds of illnesses, diseases or bodily reactions to sudden changes in the environment. And you can’t get a quick and effective treatment if you can’t get a good diagnosis. There must be more than a thousand reasons why people get headaches, but why make myself more paranoid than I already am about my chronic headaches and migraines?

So here, in no particular order of importance, are just fifty reasons as to why many people get headaches. Hope this helps.

1) Migraine disease
2) Getting hit in the head, for professional reasons or not
3) Clenching your jaw
4) Squinting into strong light
5) Flickering lightbulbs
6) Brain tumor
7) Listening to Christmas Muzak
Listening to other loud monotonous noises
9) Stress
10) Lack of decent sleep
11) Hangover
12) Listening to stories about what you did last night that you can’t remember
13) Glaucoma
14) Pencil shoved up into the nose after childhood accident
15) Strong perfume
16) Bad perfume
17) Stong cologne
18) Bad cologne
19) Arguing with someone about their bad perfume or cologne
20) Getting smacked in the head over the argument about bad perfume or cologne
21) Clogged sinuses
22) Flu
23) Barometric pressure suddenly lowers
24) Stroke
24) Mini-stroke (TIA)
25) Stroke of bad luck
26) Holding your breath for too long
27) Air pressure changes in plane ride
28) Forgetting to take your medication
29) Bad reaction to new medication
30) Bad reaction to an increase in medication
31) Bad reaction to a decrease in medication
32) Withdraw symptom from having to go off medication
33) Looking at the bill for your medication
34) Fever
35) Typhus
36) Malaria
37) Meningitis (any kind)
38) Worry about getting typhus, malaria and/or meningitis
39) Worry that your medical insurance won’t cover typhus, malaria or meningitis
40) Lyme disease
41) Tapeworm
42) That creature from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
43) Aneurysm
44) Chemical poisioning or overexposure
45) Caffeine withdrawal, especially if you decide to go cold turkey
46) That time of the month (no matter if you’re male or female)
47) The dog sitting on your head (hey — it happens)
48) Getting your teeth drillled by (hopefully) a dentist
49) Anoxia (lack of oxygen to your body’s tissues)
50) Writing a blog about dealing with headaches