rudy

4 years

Headache that has become more severe

Hello, I had a headache for almost more than a year now. at the beginning it was just a normal headache but recently, it became much more severe. I frequently had headache during working hours and early morning. Like something pushing my skull from the inside. Besides, that my hair started to fall like a lot. To add on my concern as my eyesight become pretty bad than previously.

Hi, thank you for your question. It can be frustrating to experience headaches for such a long time and it can impact your daily functions. From your question, i understand that you have been having long period of headache with recent deterioration, occurs mostly in the morning and working hours with associated falling of hair and deteriorating eyesight. Let me explain on your situation in details but an appointment with your healthcare providers is the best approach.

The pattern of your headache is suggestive of early morning headache that can be due to various causes, such as uncontrolled hypertension, tension headache, sleep problems, psychological problems, alcoholism and trauma. The most common causes are tension headache and sleep problems. Lack of sleep or snoring problem are found to be associated with headache. Tension headache is commonly described as band squeezing around your head, also known as the stress headache. In some cases, mood disorder can experience headache that is disabling them from daily activities.

Given that you are feeling some pressure pushing your skull from inside, it could be due to increase pressure inside your head. This feeling can be due to brain tumour, sinus infections or eye infections, migraines or brain infections. However, in the event of brain tumour, you may experience deteriorating eyesight because of the optic nerve compression, particularly with increase size of the pituitary gland. For sinus, eye or brain infections, you may have fever with pain recognised as headache.

Given your headache deteriorate recently with eyesight problem, i would suggest you to seek help from healthcare providers to find out the cause. A deteriorating headache in your case can also be due to increase duration, increase number of attacks and presence of new symptoms. At the same time, keep a headache diary can help in your diagnosis greatly. Have a good day.

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