You have a head for the forehead, and you feel the pressure and pain between your temples. You think that you are prone to sinus infections, so you immediately think that the pressure and pain you feel are sinus symptoms that cause antibiotics and decongestants at the doctor.
However, your sinus symptoms may be caused by a migraine headache, and you may not even know about it. Worse, sinus medications can make your migraines worse. Read on to learn more about the symptoms of sinus and their connection with migraine headaches.
Migraine and sinus headache are two completely different things with similar symptoms, many of which seem to be symptoms of the sinus, but are not. Pain behind the forehead and cheeks, facial and temple tendencies, as well as eye pain and pressure are all symptoms of migraine headaches and sinus headaches. It is easy to understand how you could misinterpret them and ultimately treat your migraine with sinus medication.
Robert G. Kanetsky, MD, director of the Center for Headache at the University of Pittsburgh, says that sinus medications can actually aggravate the symptoms of migraine headache. Worse, you can skip simple and effective migraine treatments, trying to treat only the symptoms of sinus.
Dr. Kaniecki explains that the United States is the only country in the world that reports sinus headache as a serious health problem. He explains that most other countries only see patients who report sinus symptoms and sinus headaches when they have acute sinus infections. He believes that these recurring sinus headaches are probably migraines, and they are often diagnosed and mistreated with over-the-counter medications. He suggests that this is big because of the manufacturers of sinus drugs, which advertise much more than manufacturers of drugs for migraine, and people who are not familiar with the symptoms of migraine.
David K. Haas, MD, is a neurologist at the University of New York, New York, with agreements with Dr. Kanetsky’s statements and explanations, which are not only sinus headaches, but are underdeveloped by the public, they are also mistaken and repurposed by doctors .
Symptoms of sinus transmitted to patients with migraine, as well as patients with acute sinus - headache and pressure (above, under the eyes and forehead). However, if you have a sinus infection, you probably have other sinus symptoms, including congestion, postnasal droplet, fever, and sore throat that are not present during migraine.
Many people do not recognize the symptoms of migraine or do not associate them with what they consider to be a sinus headache, so they do not report this to their doctor. These symptoms may include sensitivity to light and sound, vision of spots or light flashes, tunnel vision or blurred direct vision and nausea. Since these symptoms can pass faster than the actual migraine headache, which can last days, by the time a person visits the doctor, a headache is the only thing he thinks to report.
Migraine is not as rare as you think. Approximately 18 percent of women and 6 percent of men in the United States suffer from migraines, but almost half of migraine headaches are diagnosed accurately.
If you have frequent severe sinus symptoms and headaches that are not eliminated by sinus or over-the-counter headaches, you should talk to your doctor about your migraine headaches.
The key symptoms of migraine headaches are:
- Intervention in your life
- A headache so severe that you miss work or study must sleep to endure pain or change plans because you cannot participate in events because of the severity of the pain
- Nausea with severe headache
- Pain in the area of the pulse is often located in only one area of the head - on one side, the back of the neck or behind the forehead / between the temples
- By bending down or climbing stairs, you make the headache painful and worsen.
- Sensitive to light, sound, odors, or sudden movement
- Seeing flashing lights, "shooting stars" or having visual impairment, such as tunnel vision or peripheral vision, just before the headache sets
