Tension-type headaches may be triggered by anxiety and stress, poor posture, muscle strain, or something out of kilter in your joints. Migraines produce throbbing pain on one or both sides of the head. Other symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, light and noise sensitivity, fever, chills, flulike achiness, and sweating. Migraines may last from a few hours to days. You might get migraines several times a week or as infrequently as once every few years.
Cluster headaches are a relatively rare but very distinct type of headache that mainly affects men.
The headaches come in series. They are sudden, excruciating one-sided headaches that can run from 45 minutes to two hours. Along with the headache comes nasal congestion. Typically, one eyelid droops, and the eye on the painful side gets irritated and watery. Dr. Rapoport says that cluster headaches occur chiefly in middle-age men.