Minimizing The Pain During A Severe Headache Experiencing headaches is one of the common complaints of people living in the modern world. Aside from the busy and stressful live they lead, more and more factors continue to emerge that contribute to this problem. Experts agree that headaches are experienced when various structures of the head and neck become irritated. People who experience headaches will say things like the head feels like it wants to explode. Others feel like the world is caving in or someone with large hands is squeezing the life out of the person. A headache can be controlled if this is a minor case. Those who are experiencing mild or extreme case will feel much worse Aside from pain in the head and in other parts of the body, the individual will also be experiencing dizziness. Tension, for one, is one major trigger of migraines in a lot of people. Fatigue, hunger, bright lights and a variety of different foods and beverages can also be possible migraine triggers. The onset of a migraine attack comes with some telltale signs. Nausea and vomiting may be felt before any actual pain or headache is experienced. Causes of migraine Migraines are actually caused by the changes in the size of the blood vessels that are found in the brain and in the head area. These changes may be due to some inflammation or constriction that prevents the blood from flowing properly. Unlike the common type of headache, which only lasts for about a few hours, migraine headaches can last from four hours to as much as three days. KNOWING HEADACHES As defined, headache refers to the pain in any part of a person s head. Headaches are experienced when fatigue and stress, muscular tensions, dilated blood vessels, and others stimulate the delicate nerve fibers found in the head. Experts agree that headaches can be classified to migraine headaches which refer to the type of severe and recurrent headache that comes with painful throbbing on the temples, nausea and impaired vision; cluster headaches which are said to bear similarities to migraines only they are experienced in short durations and occur daily over weeks or months; and tension headaches that refers to the type of headache that can strike consistent location and result to contractions of the face, scalp, or neck muscles. The person could be working on the computer the whole day and develops eyestrain or there is a lot of pressure from the office. What are the symptoms of tension headaches? Mostly, people will feel pain in the forehead even all the way down to the back of the neck. It is like someone s hands are on both sides squeezing the life out of the person or the world is slowly caving in.