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Headache
Headache is a very common problem accounting for very many consultations with a doctor. The most common causes are tension headaches and migraine accounting for 93% of one series of patients. Other series showed that only one patient in 65 had a serious cause for their headache. However we would advocate attending your doctor for a firm diagnosis if your headache was a new symptom to you, if it was associated with other symptoms such as paralysis, muscle weakness, dislike of light or vomiting or a stiff neck; if you have a temperature or if the headache is of long standing or, finally, if the headache causes changes in the sufferer's personality.
Chronic Tension Headache is characterised by a chronic persistent headache recurring daily over months or years. It is felt like a ridged band of heaviness or weight all over the head. It does not usually wake the sufferer from sleep although it is commonly present on waking after a night's sleep. It is often is associated with tension in the neck muscles and there may be pain in the temple especially when chewing.
Headache Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
The usual drugs are tricyclic-antidepressants (such as amitriptyline) or one of the many over the counter aspirin/paracetamol/codeine and other mild analgesic mixtures or non-steroidal anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen. It is important to note that the prolonged use of paracetamol and ibuprofen can cause headaches and so trigger a vicious cycle of headache, pill taking and further headache.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Headache
These are commonly available:-
Please also see Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Headache
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Miss. | Janine | Fahri | London | Great Britain | |
| Mrs. | Karen | Sikorski | New York | United States of America | |
Headache Blog
Add your contributions to the blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Headache Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Headache Australia | Australia | National |
| Help For Headaches | Canada | National |
| Pain Relief Foundation | Great Britain | National |
| World Headache Alliance | Great Britain | International |
| American Headache Society | United States of America | National |
| Cluster Headaches | United States of America | National |
| National Headache Foundation | United States of America | National |
| New Daily Persistent Headache Support Group | United States of America | National |
| OUCH Organization for Understanding Cluster Headaches | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
