Every person felt pain in his head at least once in his life. In most cases this condition is not at all dangerous, it rarely occurs, it is well amenable to symptomatic treatment. The situation is worse if the constant headaches are painful - the causes of this symptom are often found in serious disorders of the vascular, nervous system, brain, musculoskeletal system.
What is the evidence of a constant headache?
In the medical community, there are several classifications of the problem described. Let's consider the most simple variant, corresponding to 4 main ways of occurrence of a painful syndrome:
- Likvorodinamichesky disturbances or organic pathologies of a brain. It can be inflammatory diseases, trauma, head tumor.
- Psychogenic pain. This condition is also called a tension headache.
- Vascular pain. In particular - with migraine, hypotension. Less unpleasant feelings accompany hypertensive disease.
- Extracerebral diseases. Causes of pain may consist of metabolic disorders, lesions of the musculoskeletal system, the action of medications, infections.
Each type of pathology has specific signs, due to which the diagnosis is simplified.
Causes of a constant headache in the temples and forehead
These symptoms are specific clinical manifestations of hypotension - low blood pressure. As a rule, such a headache is felt in the morning, together with weakness, a sense of "frustration".
Other reasons:
- frontitis;
- spondylitis;
- sinusitis;
- osteochondrosis ;
- sinusitis;
- Horton's disease;
- radiculitis;
- rhinitis;
- rachiocampsis;
- neuralgia of the trigeminal facial nerve;
- pathology of the lower jaw.
Also, the psychogenic factors - stress, depressive episodes, emotional overloads, acute experiences and others - can also provoke pain in the frontal and temporal lobe of the head. The nature of the symptoms is not specific, the pain syndrome is both oppressive, aching, and abrupt, sometimes not localized in specific zones, but extends to all areas.
What are the causes of persistent headaches and dizziness?
The considered signs are considered a signal about the onset of a migraine attack. It is often accompanied by an aura - blurred vision, unclear subjects, dizziness, light and sound. There is also nausea, vomiting, irradiation of pain in the orbit. Such clinical manifestations still indicate such diseases:
- head trauma with concussion;
- hypoxia;
- dialysis;
- hypercapnia;
- glaucoma;
- hematoma of the brain;
- intervertebral hernia.
Why is there constant headache and drowsiness?
Feeling of fatigue, lethargy, reduced work capacity are peculiar to intoxication. They can have different reasons:
- inflammatory diseases of the brain tissue (meningitis or meningoencephalitis);
- viral, bacterial infections;
- abscess;
- condition before hemorrhagic, ischemic stroke;
- neoplasms in the brain;
- poisoning by medicines, other chemicals.
In addition, drowsiness in combination with a headache is typical for solar or thermal shock.
What causes permanent headaches and tinnitus?
This symptomatology is a specific symptom of hypertensive disease. Elevated blood pressure is rarely the cause of headaches, but is always accompanied by noise, ringing in the ears and additional symptoms:
- flashing "flies" in front of the eyes;
- knock at the temples;
- dizziness;
- feeling of pressure on the back of the head;
- accelerated heartbeat.