When these headaches are severe or frequent, such as with migraine, chronic tension-type, or cluster headaches, they can affect one's work or social life.
Headaches become totally disabling for a small number of sufferers.
Behavior therapy is a beneficial treatment for headache. There is some evidence that thermal biofeedback plus autogenic relaxation training is useful for migraine headaches. While other approaches may be helpful for treatment of headaches, they have not been evaluated scientifically in the same way as the treatments listed here. Irritable bowel syndrome involves fairly constant abdominal pain or cramping. The person also has a change in bowel habits such as diarrhea or constipation, or bouts of both diarrhea and constipation.