CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHES

Is Acupuncture effective for relieving headaches, back and neck pain?

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:05:59 +0000

Over the years I have seen my a doctor, chiropractor and a massage therapist regarding my headaches and back and neck pain. I have had some success with all of them but still not enough to be satisfied. I am now looking at acupuncture and am curious if it would yield positive results.
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine can often be effective in treating chronic pain conditions and headaches. Further, idiopathic pain often responds to acupuncture better than conventional treatments. If the back and neck pain are a result of structural deformations, such as a herniated disc, acupuncture will not make the pain go away for good. It would however help in long term management of the pain. Acupuncture is a therapy process, and you must be ready to commit to a course of treatments over a period of time. Once will usually garner only very minor and very temporary changes in your condition. I personally recommend 4 to 6 treatments in the beginning to establish how your body and condition will respond to treatment. If you have no results, or minimal results after 4 to 6 treatments you may want to explore other health-care treatments.

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i get a severe headache on right side when i exercise?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:31:24 +0000

i’m doing arm exercise from a railthat comes up to my chest

If you’re getting a headache during upper body exercise, there are two main possibilities.

1. Are you drinking enough water during exercise? Mild dehydration gives some people headaches.

2. It’s possible, since you’re noticing this mainly during arm exercises, that you have a pinched nerve somewhere in your neck or shoulder that’s causing you pain when you work the muscles around it.

Your best bet would be to see a doctor in person about this, since it’s pretty much impossible to tell you via internet.

Headache Relief?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:31:19 +0000

I have had this headache for three weeks on/off but its throughout the day, everyday-I take tylenol, advil, everything. Nothing even touches it. So I started taking double doses and even that isn’t relieving my pain. I have tried all I can think of…I don’t really want to go to the doc, I am just wondering what are some home remedy ideas for relief?!

Are your neck and shoulders really tense and knotted up? When I’m really stressed, my muscles there bunch up and I get headaches until I can loosen them. If that’s whats happening to you try a few things:

Take a really hot shower, letting the water concentrate on your neck and shoulders. Try to stretch the muscles and massage them. Put a heating pad on that area while watching tv or relaxing. Usually this helps me, even when meds dont.

sudden on set of migrane headache?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:31:15 +0000

I have been getting sudden headaches . all of a sudden WHAM migraine pain in my temple .
I do get very bad migraines once a month or so. But i normally feel then coming on. anyone else had this ?

See your health care provider as soon as possible. Most so-called migraine headaches are really tension headaches. True migraine headaches are often associated with nausea or vomiting and are preceded by seeing flashes of light or "stars." They are caused by the tightening and then relaxing of blood vessels in the head. True migraine headaches occur on only one side of the head during any particular attack. Although headaches aren’t a reliable indicator of high blood pressure, if they are worse in the morning, check the blood pressure.
All of the usual over-the-counter drugs (acetaminophen, aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen) are quite effective in relieving headache.
Headache may frequently be relieved by massage or heat applied to the back of the upper neck or by simply resting with eyes closed and the head supported. Relaxation techniques such as meditation may work also.
Persistent headaches that don’t respond to such measures should be brought to the attention of a doctor. I hope this helps you. And good luck.

Pain and stiffness in my left arm neck shoulders back, alot of headaches and I’ve been to my doctor already,?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:31:10 +0000

she gave me meds for inflamation which isn’t working. My husband thinks it’s a pinched nerve, but my right arm does not even swing when I walk. I have not hurt myself or been injuried. I will have some tests done soon but I am wondering if anyone else knows what this might be. Thanks

Are you presently taking, or recently have taken, any antibiotics?

Really bad headache on right side of head.?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:28:11 +0000

When I woke up this morning I had and incredibly hard pounding headache on the right side on my forehead. It was making the top my eye and eyelid area hurt too. It’s mostly gone away now but it really hurt like I didn’t want to move my hand away from my right side of the forehead and it was actually hurting to open that eye. I was really dizzy aswell.

I also slept really bad last night. I didn’t fall asleep for 2 hours after I got in bed then after that I was up every too hours. So I woke up evertually with the headache and I didn’t want to eat breakfast so I just had a kiwi and I think my headache is just about gone but why was it so bad? What was wrong?

Oh God I was like for almost a week ending a couple of days ago. It was so HORRIBLE, check and see if you’re not about to start your period. Also check and see if you haven’t any mold growing in your house. It can travel your air ducts and cause serious headaches. This is a problem when it comes to apt living.

Take a couple of migraine pills and lie in the dark.

Take Care!

For the past 3 days I have had a dull headache only on the left side of my head and left ear and neck pain?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:28:07 +0000

The pain is constant with no relief even after I take medication.

It is due to excess of Coldness energy of kidneys and Urinary Bladder, (according to science of acupuncture). Kidneys are related to ears and coldness energy generates pain, hence this problem.

The Urinary Bladder Meridian starts at inner corner of eye and passes over head, hence H/A.
Your urinary bladder meridian is blocked at neck, hence the neck pain.

There is no medicine for H/A OR MIGRAINE. Not only these but for almost all painful diseases. Hence they become chronic.

Acidity, WORRY, sadness, excessive wind, cold , heat, sour food and sinusitis, constipation, intestinal inflammation; drug side effects, stress, bad smell, TV & COMPUTER SOMETIMES,
Blockage in the flow of Vital Energy are their causes. None of them can be treated with medicine. Our 100% success in treating migraine &H/A confirms it.

Acupuncture is the best treatment.
I can treat it with naturopathy and YOG, but how can you manage pl see.

Pain killers don’t treat the pain but we loose the sense of pain for some time; in that duration our body itself treats sometime and credit goes to meds.

These useless drugs have enormous power to create hazardous side effects like liver/kidney failure, ulcer, acidity adn lot others.

Avoid late sleeping if possible; worry, spicy foods, sour fruits, stale bakery foods and alcohole.
Sweet foods, COCOANUT WATER,sweet fruits, milk, rice, SPROUTS, SALADS and good sleep will help you if cough is not there.

But you try one herbal remedy- two drops of drumstick leaves’ juice in opposite nostril if one side pains and both nostrils if full H/A will give you rescue. Betel leaf helps but it is very strong.

Pl search a painful point 3-6 mm behind your thumb nail and press it, H/A will disappear within 30 seconds!

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worried about these sudden headaches.?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:28:02 +0000

im not sure if this is to much to ask on yahoo, but this has been happening to me a lot lately, and I really cant find an answer for it anywhere. It seems that, more often than not, when i reach a climax i get an instant throbbing headache. It feels like pressure and it starts in the back of my head and goes down my neck. I can feel my pulse pounding in my head down my neck and to my spine. it almost feels like a migraine mixed with a headache you have when you have a sinus infection. it only lasts for a few moments but during those moments its pretty intense and worries me.
i do not have regular headaches, i hardly ever get them unless im sick which is on rare occasions. I am not sick, and this has been going on for about 2 months. I do not take medication for it because it only lasts a few moments. I am not on any medications. It only happens when i reach a climax.

The headache you describe is a very typical description of a coital headache, it is relatively common and occurs with exactly the symptoms you describe in your posting. the main diagnosis to exclude in this type of headache is that it is not due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is very similar in its presentation. The fact that you suffered no significant neurological sequel makes this unlikely. I would advise that since this is the first time thic has happened that you should be seen and assessed by a neurologist, however the story you describe is so typical that a benign coital headache is the most likely explanation.

my pupils are unequal, noticed after i coughed, i have a mild headache, (back of neck and eyes sore)?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:27:58 +0000

Have your pupils always been unequal, or is this a new problem? If it is new, have you recently had any trauma to the head or neck? It is not uncommon to have a headache when you have a persistant cough… all in all, schedule a doctor appointment asap.

Quick Headache on Right Side of head?

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:21:45 +0000

When I yawn or chew with the right side of my mouth, or when I get up quick, the right upper part of my head hurts. It feels more like a headache when I get up, and the others feel just a little different, kind of like a muscle, but there is little difference. The pain is in my right upper part of my head. The pains only last about a second or two after yawn/chew, and the same when I get up fast. It feels like pressure in my head, like a headache, but stops fast. The pain doesn’t come randomly, like when I sitting down, and it’s pretty much just with those things happening. I don’t think that it’s a tumor though because I don’t have nausia or random headachs, longlasting headachs, or seizures. Is this something to worry about?
I’m 16 and also, if I jump op and down fast I can feel a throbbing, but when I stop so does the pain.

with this appearing when you change positions, get up from lying down and from you exercising, it tends to make me think it could be attached to your bloodpressure….and that, for it being in one so young, that it does indeed need to be discussed with a doctor…. it’s not that unusual for young’uns to be stressed enuff to affect blood pressure and if there’s elevated pressure, then one must be careful of things like aneurysms…… the yawn/chew could be a signal of a mis-aligned jaw problem…. whatever the cause, it’s not just something to be ignored…. ask the doc to check it out!!!