Does anyone know any recommendation for tension headaches?
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Anxiety Headache’s
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Ice Packs, physical exercise, verbalizing stress, deep breathing.
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Hi artwanna, actually I have one myself tonight. First thing it's a sign of being
dehydrated. Water is important in avoiding headaches both tension as well as migraine.
As for lowering the fullness and tight feeling in the back of head and face, we need to find
a quiet place to tune out the world for a while. The tension headache is coming from the
tight trigger points in the neck and shoulders.
After hydrating, find a quiet place. Place a small pillow at your lower back, bring your
shoulders down away from your ears. Lower the lights, make sure the temperature of
the room is cool. Place a microwavable shoulder wrap or take a bath towel out of the
dryer and wrap it around your shoulders and neck. Sometimes sipping on hot tea or
decaf coffee can help in warming the insides which will help calm the over sensitized
nervous system.
Place a light blanket across your lap. Do not read or watch tv but slowly start to do
breathing exercises. Close your eyes as you breathe deeply in and then exhale long
and slow. Start Imagery Meditation. Take yourself on a quiet escape for a few minutes.
If negative thoughts come into mind, push them aside and keep meditating.
I usually am walking down a long hall that has a large door at the end. Once I reach the
door, I slowly open it to find my own place of respite. A beautiful garden of flowers and
babbling brooks. The scent of these flowers calms my inner self. I am barefoot taking each step in the warm soft sand beneath me. I breathe as I take each step forward.
I reach another door and as I walk through it, I'm walking on billowy clouds. Actually
feel no tenseness, light and airy. I no longer am thinking about my day or my problems.
It feels so good to feel the pressure in my head come down. To feel the tightness in my
face and jaw get lower.
I think you get the picture artwanna. It's anything you want it to be. You make up the
story. You take the journey into a stress free place . Usually 10 min is all you need to feel
the difference. If you wanted to take an OTC pain med that would have been okay. I usually don't need it. Once you train your imagination to take over and to respond to
quiet time, it will happen more quickly each time. This is also good to do on a stressful
day before you go into headache mode. Feel better, Breathe xx
Thank you for the reply ! I also have a horrible one tonight . I have had tension headaches one and off for a few days ... my head feels heavy , I feel like there is something squeezing my head and my neck is so tense 
foxglove_pnw, practicing relaxation, hydrating and deep breathing daily can
better help you in avoiding tension headaches. I know this will be hard
to believe but by the time I finished writing my response, my head symptoms
were gone because I was writing I was doing what I preach. Went to bed pain free,
relaxed and slept well through the night. Wish you well xx
I am so glad you had a good night sleep ❤️
I still don’t know how to relax ! I woke up with the same headache, pressure on my forehead , eyes hurting , a feeling that my eyes can’t focus on anything and overall anxiety . My urge is to run to the ER .
Trying to calm down !
Hi foxglove, Try not to be so hard on yourself. After all this didn't happen overnight
for me. I spent many years with tension/contraction headaches only interrupted by migraines. It was a nightmare, but nightmares do end eventually.
Everything you are sensing, I did as well.
Of course it brings your anxiety into high gear.
The thing is to find methods that will reduce your stress and pain naturally
thru meditation or whatever should work for you. Taking the time each time
in looking forward to those few moments of calmness will pay for itself in
hours of pain free days and reduced anxiety.
Breathe my friend. xx
Thank you ❤️
in reply to Agora1
This is interesting, you know I always feel like I'm going to faint from these tension headaches, do you think this is normal ?..
Just curious
Agora1 in reply to
QUICH...whenever we are in any kind of pain, we can tend to
either hold our breath or hyperventilate causing that dizzy feeling.
Also know that with any kind of headache, hydration is all important.
It can help with not only the headache but the faint feeling as well.
Always let your doctor know how you are feeling and what you are
experiencing. He is the medical professional. xx
in reply to Agora1
Thank you agora, ..you are our online paramedic😉 ....your awesome
artwanna in reply to
Same happens to me sometimes
Likeabadstorm in reply to
It even wakes me in the middle of the night feeling faint
Hello artwanna! I’m late to this but I have really bad tension headaches that sometimes develop into migraines from anxiety and also the after effect of a really bad fever I had. My headaches are usually accompanied by vision and hearing problems, facial weakness, or dizziness even if I don’t have much head pain. It’s very annoying but the one medication that works wonders is Excedrine migraine. It’s essentially Tylenol, caffeine and aspirin all combined in one to knock out the pain. After taking 600 mg ibuprofen throughout the day every day and it working for very short periods of time, I decided to give Excedrine migraine a try. It knocks out my headaches and accompanying symptoms for 3 days at the very least. I haven’t had to take one in 8 days which has been great. I highly recommend that because it works wonders.
Sadly no OTC meds has helped mine not even the migraine one. It’s constant 24/7 for several months now.
I have tried everything, but not giving up.
Put your hands on the back of your head, thumbs level with the bottom of the ears and massarge with your thumbs for 3 minutes! Drink plenty of water, And do relaxation exercises daily x
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