Chronic headaches may be caused by a variety of conditions including physical, emotional, psychosomatic factors. Acute transient headaches could be due to problems with sinuses, teeth, eye ear or throat. Acute infections or trauma to the head can also cause this type of headache. However, if you believe your headache may be a symptom of a serious disease, you should consult your physician. Although migraine headaches are terribly painful, it may be comforting to know that they are not considered dangerous.
Migraines can cause nausea, dizziness and visual disturbances.
If the headache is particularly bad, it is advisable not to drive or operate machinery. While doctors cannot cure migraine headaches, they can prescribe pain killers to treat the symptoms. Victims of migraines can be their own best doctors, keeping a diary of what you eat, along with your sleeping, work and recreational habits can show when you are most likely to get a migraine. Learning to deal with stress and time management techniques can lessen the chance of suffering with a migraine. While tumors that develop in the brain are fairly uncommon, cancer that begins in other organs, and spread to the brain are relatively common.