Can anything other than brain tumors cause daily headaches?

Answer 1

Hello Laea!
Fortunately most daily headaches come from something else than brain tumors. What other symptoms you have? How long have you had the headache? Headache as the ONLY symptom of brain tumor is very, very rare -and brain tumors are rare also, about 10 to 15 per 100 000 people new cases per year-and much less in young, below 50 year olds. Epileptic seizures are common symptoms of brain tumors. Brain tumors causing headache would most often cause also either nausea, vomiting, and dizziness AND visual problems and be worse in the morning when you wake up and get better when you get up from bed and start walking and doing morning chores or the headaches would go together with thinking/memory/language/visual/motor problems which would be progressing.
If you have migraine -mild and have taking medication, you could have medication headache or tension type headache getting worse in the afternoons -how much do you exercise? how much do you sleep? some blood pressure medications can cause headache. anyone else in your family has headache?
migraine is much , much more common than people think because it can be mild -but it does not come daily -usually.

Having met hundreds of patients with brain tumors, headache is not a common problem, particularly not as the only problem.Having met hundreds of headache patients, they are more often than not a therapeutic, not a diagnostic problem. If you get a good idea what your headache could come from -and if you feel healthy when you don't have headache, you could try to treat it and if that is not working go to the doctor -but if you are concerned and unsure or if you have other symptoms also, go to the doctor. There are all kinds of net pages of headache, one that looked reasonable on quick notice was patients.uptodate.com for causes and treatment of headache.

Do something and get your problem out of way, you have other things to think of than daily headache -which most often can be helped!

all the best

mary a

Answer 2

A headache (medically known as cephalalgia, sometimes spelled as cephalgia) is a condition of pain in the head; sometimes neck or upper back pain may also be interpreted as a headache. It ranks amongst the most common local pain complaints.

Headaches have a wide variety of causes, ranging from eye strain, sinusitis and tension to life-threatening conditions such as encephalitis, meningitis, cerebral aneurysms and brain tumors (although up to 99% of headaches have a benign cause and do not warrant further treatment other than a painkiller). When the headache occurs in conjunction with a head injury the cause is usually quite evident; however, many causes are more unclear. The most common type of headache is a tension headache. Some experience headaches when dehydrated, or suffering from caffeine withdrawal symptoms.

Treatment of uncomplicated headache is usually symptomatic with over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin, paracetamol (acetaminophen) or ibuprofen, although some specific forms of headaches (e.g. migraine) may demand other, more suitable treatment.

If you have head ache daily you should not come to the conclusion that it is cancer. Cancer due to with the symptom of daily head aches accounts less than 0.01% only. so unnecessarily have any false fear. Consult doctor for cure of Head ache and you will be alright.-

Answer 3

If you're having daily headaches you need to see a doctor....it could be as simple as needing eyeglasses or as complex as a brain tumor. There are a million things inbetween it could be. You'll never be sure until you are examined.

Answer 4

Lots of things. Cancer is one of the less-likely causes. I used to get stress headaches when in an especially unpleasant job. Then there are migraines, various allergies, close work, fatigue... get a doctor to check you out. Most headaches are preventable.

Answer 5

Many , many things , other than brain tumors . It could be dry eyes , or even allergies or stress .

Answer 6

Yes....I had that and found out that I had high blood pressure. And your blood pressure is nothing to fool around with. Please see your doctor soon. You should not let it go untreated for too long. It can lead to heart attack and stokes. Just to be on the safe side, see your doctor and have your blood pressure checked.

It also could be simple allergies. You can get meds for that too.

Just go to the doctor soon incase it is your blood pressure. Better to be safe than sorry.

Answer 7

Lots of things:
Eye strain, stress, allergies, sinus problems, lack of sleep, back or neck problems, dehydration..... Call your doctor

Answer 8

see a NEUROLOGIST.
Daily headache means there is something to look for.

Answer 9

Look mate Just go to docters simple " /

Answer 10

migraines, sinus problems, eye strain, pulling your hair back to tight