Headache. Who hasn’t experienced this excruciating symptom and doesn’t know how annoying it is. I mention it as a symptom because that’s what it is, not a disease. But what is behind it and what can we do about it?
Headache is highly prevalent in the population, even chronic headache. Attention! Do not label every headache as a migraine. The World Headache Society has come up with specific criteria for diagnosing migraine, as well as a bunch of other similar syndromes. Each has its own particularities and needs specific treatment.
It is the most common reason for visiting a neurological clinic and one of the three most common reasons patients seek out their personal physician. In a sense it could be described as a pandemic of our time, which is not transmissible.
About 95% of headaches, especially chronic ones, are harmless without threatening the sufferer with death or paralysis, but they can significantly reduce quality of life.
The chronic headache wants to tell us something. It wants to tell us that we need to respect ourselves, our needs and our limits.
Unfortunately or fortunately, human instinct tells us that if we are in pain somewhere we should take a painkiller. For the chronic headache, unfortunately!
Patients with chronic headaches get over time to overuse, abuse drugs, we would say. At this point we enter a dangerous path. In addition to the damage these drugs can cause us, such as damage to the stomach, kidneys or liver, they also lose their analgesic effect. And not only do they lose their analgesic effect, but we also have the paradoxical phenomenon of headaches being intensified by taking the drug. So following this objection mentioned above and common sense, the sufferer takes a painkiller again, which causes a new headache so that he is forced to take a painkiller again and so on.
So if you suffer from frequent or severe headaches, come and let us break the chain and regain your quality of life.
