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Headaches by stan lord
Blake Jone's head began to ache last Tuesday during his morning workout, and the low, throbbing pain has been drumming a tango on his temples for the past nine days. "It started during my first set of bench presses," he recalls from under a five-pound ice pack. "By the time I hit the showers, my head was about to explode. It's been with me ever since."
Blake figures that anything that sticks around that long ought to have a name, so he's calling his headache Elaine, after his ex-girlfriend. Specialists who don't know his ex would label it a benign exertional headache. But don't let the "benign" fool you; this is an especially nasty ailment that can become chronic.
In any given year, nine out of 10 men have at least one headache, and between 40 million and 50 million Americans experience chronic or repeated episodes. Statistics collected by the American Council for Headache Education indicate that headaches are the most common reason American men miss work, while many more sufferers drag themselves to the office to endure a day of decreased productivity. That keeps the folks at Bayer pretty happy, but the rest of us aren't so amused.
There are two main classifications for headaches. More than 90 percent of them are known as primary headaches, such as exertion, tension-type, migraine and cluster. The outnumbered secondary headaches result from underlying medical conditions, such as infection or increased pressure in the skull due to a tumor. If any headache is severe, sudden in its onset and accompanied by vomiting, weakness or sensory impairments, a physician should be consulted promptly.
Exercise, Sex and MSG Research suggests that primary headaches are often caused by an electrical and chemical instability in brain centers that regulate blood vessels around the head and neck, along with the flow of pain messages. The difficulty, which appears to be at least partly genetic, involves chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters, such as serotonin. Like seizure disorders, headaches caused by faulty neurotransmission can be treated with prescription drugs that stabilize brain chemistry.
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