Migraine - Tracking all head pain, did I always have a constant headache or is it new…? : Women-care

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Migraine overview

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A migraine is a headache that can purpose intense throbbing suffering or a pulsing sensation, typically on one facet of the head. It's often accompanied with the aid of nausea, vomiting, and excessive sensitivity to mild and sound. Migraine assaults can closing for hours to days, and the discomfort can be so excessive that it interferes with your each day activities. For some people, a warning symptom viewed as an air of secrecy takes location until now than or with the headache. An air of secrecy can consist of visible disturbances, such as flashes of mild or blind spots, or different disturbances, such as tingling on one thing of the face or in an arm or leg and concern speaking.

My experience-Tracking all head pain, did I always have a constant headache or is it new…?

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Recently started PT for migraine/cervicogenic headaches, and part of my “homework” from the neurologist was to track all head pain, where I was previously only tracking what I believed to be migraines. This is where I don’t know if I just got really good at ignoring a “normal” headache to where I underestimated the amount of headache days in a month, or if the PT exercises are just aggravating things enough to keep me in a near constant “background” headache.

I’ve gotten headaches a ton going all the way back to childhood. I didn’t even realize that it was abnormal to have frequent headaches until I was in college. This is also about the time that not all headaches are created equal, and some where indeed migraines. (Of which I believe I also had as a kid). I don’t take a lot of meds for head pain, because a) I learned to just live through a lot as I was fearful of taking meds too often, b) having learned about rebound headaches from frequent med use. So I’m fairly certain it’s not rebounding.

Is it possible to have a headache that is just always there and I didn’t realize it until I started paying attention? Would the pain ceasing for an hour or so be considered a new headache (for tracking purposes)? Or is it more likely just just a side effect of PT?

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Migraine Symptoms

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Migraines, which have an effect on children and teens as nicely as adults, can development via 4 stages: prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome. Not everyone who has migraines goes through all stages.

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