At the most basic level, what mechanism is makes your head hurt?
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I was once told your brain is in liquid.
When you haven’t drunk for a long time, yor brain starts resting on your skull and creates a headache.
While this clearly isn’t true, it’s all I think about when I have a headache!
The mechanism behind orthostatic headaches is also known — lowered inter-cranial pressure.
It can happen from a leak of cerebral spinal fluid, but also from POTS or a chiari malformation, and there’s a bunch of stuff that can mimic it (sinus headaches, dehydration etc.)
I get headaches if I stay up too late. Last the whole next day and nothing touches it medicine wise. Only sleep helps.
I had brutal migraines in my early teens. After a battery of tests, I was prescribed Dilantin, an anti seizure medication. I took it for 3 years. I haven’t had one since. Apparently, they were related to seizures. I read a report online about the relationship of migraines and seizures, but it was too much medical jargon for me to understand.
Poor posture could potentially cause a headache, as poor posture would limit the pressure of the fluid in your spine. Try tilting your head and neck all the way back every now and then.
Any number of things from the benign (eyestrain) to the life-threatening (brain tumours) to whothehellknows in the case of migraines and their cousins. In my case, it turned out that I needed yet another sinus surgery.
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