For the regular, garden-variety headaches, they see their family doctor or go to the drugstore. Meek said headaches that cause people to miss work, make them unable to care for their children or interfere with family or social obligations should be checked out. Pettigrew notes that any severe headache that occurs more than once or twice a week warrants medical attention. If headache pain awakens you. They only last about 45 minutes, but tend to recur nightly for a period of time.
Experts say there's often an underlying fear factor with headaches.
The vast majority of headaches aren't an indicator of a more serious underlying illness. But that's the nature of the headache condition. I think a lot of people are relieved when they see a doctor about headaches. For Jones, life is an everyday headache. It's hard, because they affect your life so much.