the blood goes all around the surface of the brain so you can imagine this is something that the brain doesn't like to happen to be covered in blood because blood is very irritating to the surface of the brain so having blood in the brain like in this example or having blood on the surface will cause bad headaches alright so typically somebody who's having a bleeding type of stroke will have a severe headache often the worst headache of their life now that's going to be very different from the more common types of stroke