I have suffered from several caffeine headaches because I drink a lot of caffeine through out the day. In fact, I had quite a caffeine withdrawal headache this morning because I slept until eleven. I usually wake up at seven in the morning, but the Red Sox are playing in Arizona this weekend and the games don’t start until ten at night. I got to bed late and therefore woke up late. My head was pounding from a caffeine headache and I knew immediately that I had to get some coffee inside of me. (more…)

Originally posted 2007-06-09 17:17:05. Republished by Old Post Promoter

A Zoloft headache is sometimes unavoidable but you can learn how to manage and get rid of them. Zoloft is extremely helpful to those dealing with depression or anxiety. But like with any medication, there are side effects. You have to examine the cost/benefits of the symptoms you are looking to relieve and those that come as side effects.

Are You Taking Zoloft Now?

If you have just started taking Zoloft and are getting headaches from it, there is no real need to worry. These headaches are likely to soon go away. Once your body grows more accustomed to having the drug in your system, you’ll stop experiencing the headaches. So your best bet if you’re experiencing headaches while taking Zoloft is to keep whatever headache medicine your doctor recommends around, and to call your doctor if the symptoms persist longer than a few weeks.

Once you have been on the medication for a while you may get headaches if you miss a dosage. Try to develop some routine that helps you to remember to take the medicine each day. Do not take a double dose if you missed the last one. Talk to your doctor to learn what to do when you miss a dose.

Are You Looking To Quit Zoloft?

Likewise, once your body has gotten used to the chemicals in the medication, you are likely to experience headaches as withdrawal symptoms. This problem happens for the same reason that you experience headaches from starting Zoloft treatments, because your body is not yet used to the change of chemicals in your bloodstream. Headaches are merely one of a series of other symptoms you might experience while lowering your dosage or quitting Zoloft. To limit the Zoloft headaches, be sure to come off the medication gradually. The more gradual the better.

Finally, if you are taking any chemical medication it’s a good idea to try and be healthier in other areas of your life. Eat right and exercise. Drink lots of water and try not to put other unhealthy things into your body. Drinking a lot of water helps your body process out the medication. The Zoloft headaches should happen less often if your body is able to properly process out the medication

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Originally posted 2007-12-02 02:35:21. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Burning headaches plague more people than you may have previously imagined. The term is not a medically recognized condition, but rather is just a layman term that is used quite often and universally to describe this annoying condition.

Have you been able to determine what might be the cause of your headaches on your own? People often are the best diagnosticians of their own conditions. I remember I was suffering from headaches for a couple days when I realized it was the bottled water I was drinking. Needless to say, I stopped drinking that water. Here are some possible causes of the burning headache.

What Area Of Your Head Hurts?

The burning headache might actually be a sinus headache. In that case, the pain is usually on the frontal part of the head, on the forehead, upper cheeks, and sometimes can even travel around the whole face. In other cases, this burning headache can be caused by fever. In this, the pain is usually on both sides of the forehead, which are the weakest points of sensitivity in our head.

Some Possible Culprits

We know that a fever can cause a burning headache and we also know that it can be caused by sinuses. In these cases, the pain is constant, and can be stinging and tingling, and not to mention burning. It can originate from any side of the head, but usually after a while it will travel to other areas as well. Some people tend to get thrusts of extreme pains. Although medically there is no proof as to what causes this sudden uprising in the burning headache symptoms, it is believed to be caused by pulsating nerves due to tension.

There are also some other causes of a burning headache. These are more serious cases such as tumors or growth in the head. In such cases, the pain is not constant like the ones listed above, but comes on and off. The pain is usually violent, far stronger than the ones you get for fever, and not to forget; it pulsates often.

It is likely that the bottled water that was giving me the burning headache was the result of chemicals. This could be the case with you as well.  Acute mercury poisoning can also cause terrible headaches along with other heavy metals. Furthermore, you could be having allergic reactions to chemicals in foods you are eating that could be giving you a headache.

A big part of finding out what is causing your burning headache is to pay close attention to what you are eating and drinking. Go on a simple diet and then, one-by-one, add the foods you like until you start getting headaches again. This way you will know what is food or beverage is the culprit.

It is also believed that toxins and chemicals can also cause acute or burning headache. This is pretty common to many people, especially those who are not so favorable of newly painted houses, chemical labs, and so on. On top of these, even certain edible toxins and foods can cause burning headache, such as alcohol, caffeine, and so on. Alcohol and caffeine especially, are believed to be causes of many serious headaches that can cause the whole head to ache severely, with the nerves being extremely tensed.

Originally posted 2007-06-17 00:06:14. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Most of us have suffered from headaches, including some babies, and young children. But most of us don’t know exactly what kind of headache is bothering us, even though the pain really strikes us down sometimes. This is really a problem because we without knowing what the headache types are, we won’t know the best therapy for us or we might use the wrong medicine. So what kind of headache you have is kind of important—– tension headaches, migraine headaches, cluster headaches or organic headaches, etc.

There Are Many Headache Treatment Options

Nevertheless, the medical fraternity has not spared any effort in coming up with methods and cures to relieve headaches whatever is their type. The latest medications that are used in conjunction with therapies that do not require taking drugs can help to prevent, stop or even manage headaches ranging from the mild to the toughest types.

Perhaps the most common headache type that everyone has suffered at some point of time or the other in their lives is the tension-type headache for which over-the-counter medications are used to treat such a condition. No doubt this is a very common headache type, but it can be severe enough to debilitate a person and it may be either episodic, or chronic.

Another severe instance of a headache type is the migraine headache that can cause a person to go into a state where they are unable to continue with their daily routines for a few hours, or even for a few days. Migraine headaches are a leading cause why people absent themselves from work and cause disruptions in family life. It is believed that almost thirty million Americans have suffered from migraines and almost four fifths have had a history of migraine headaches in their families, though it is yet to determine whether genes actually play any role in such a headache type.

The third headache type we know is the cluster headache that affects a person in groups of attacks often without a warning, and this is the severest as well as most intense of all headache types. Cluster headaches can last for a half hour to forty-five minutes, though some may last for many hours before finally disappearing only to return later on, and it is quite normal for a person to get up to four such headaches in a day which most often appear in the mornings, or come late in the nighttime and lasts weeks or even months

There are other headache types which seem to only afflict a special group of people, like hormone headaches which only affects women when there hormone levels are changing; or like headaches from your disobeying the instructions on the medication labels or recommendations from the physician or overdosing on caffeine. Or like organic headaches which usually are triggered by the disease of the brain, nose or other organs.

Originally posted 2007-06-01 02:33:40. Republished by Old Post Promoter

You are off to a good start If you get a headache after eating and are able to make that connection. The first advice I give to anyone suffering from chronic headaches is to keep a diary so you can become familiar with the triggers of your headaches.

These headaches after eating could have a variety of causes, some that may even reveal other medical conditions that you or your doctor may never have considered. For example, you could be allergic to what you ate and the headache is a symptom of the allergic reaction.

How Does Food Cause Headaches?

People in the western world eat a lot of processed foods that are both missing enzymes and nutrients that used to be in them, and contain chemical additives that were not in them before. Pasteurized milk for example doesn’t contain any of the enzymes that the raw milk does. These enzymes would help us digest the milk. Also, I remember having a severe allergic reaction to a cup of instant flavored coffee, and I’m not allergic to anything. I wonder what they put in that coffee?

The chemicals they put in foods are meant to give them a long shelf life, however they are toxic to our body and some people react more obviously to that toxicity.  Some people, though, find that they suffer headaches after eating these foods.  There are even some natural foods that the general public eats which may cause headaches after eating for some individuals.

The cause of your headache after eating could also be the result of an intolerance to lactose in milk or gluten in wheat.  If a person suffers headaches caused by foods it is important to go through a process of elimination.  Food allergists can assist a person in eliminating probable food causes one by one from the diet until the guilty foods are found.

Headaches After Eating And Diabetes

Believe it or not, headaches after eating could be caused by improper blood sugar regulation by the body, or diabetes. It is important for a person who gets headaches after eating to rule out the diagnosis of diabetes. The headaches after eating in the case of diabetes are a symptom of high blood sugar. High blood sugar can cause many problems for an individual, the most severe being death.

High blood sugars left untreated can cause blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, high cholesterol, and many other problems.  Early intervention in treating diabetes can prevent these problems.  Getting headaches after eating can be an early sign that diabetes may be a problem.

Your doctor should definitely be informed if you are getting headaches after eating. Of course, when you share this with your doctor they are going to want to know what you were eating when you got the headache. Make sure you keep a journal of everything you eat and when and when you get headaches. Make entries even when you don’t get headaches.

Originally posted 2007-07-06 22:39:14. Republished by Old Post Promoter