why do i get a headache every time i walk in math class?

Question

every day in third period, about 10:45-ish math class, i get a headache. its starts pretty soft and easy but next period its tough. by the end of the day my head is throbbing. it still hasnt gone away but im at home. can u get headaches from concentrating? im a 13 year old girl.

Answer 1

You may want to get your vision checked as you may need a stronger prescription lens. You can get headaches from eye strain. And since it happens in math class when your vision is being used extensively...See your eye doc.

Answer 2

Your "scheduled" headache may either be conditionally induced or you have a migraines. The conditionally induced situation is one wherein the headache you experience has actually been conditioned in your physiology, i.e. you think math is hard, you constantly about it, think that "it's a headache", and the like until your brain interprets these information and translates these into you having the headache in reality--thus conditioning your thinking that you are going to have a headache because "it's math once again", which continues throughout the day.

The second situation is the possibility that you have a migraine (perhaps a partial one at that); now, having migraines is but normal, since people either have this genetically or it is environmentally induced. So, you being in your first few classes in the morning starts to stress your brain, and then the onset is observed at the third period (when your math starts), the time when "more thinking" must be exerted towards your class, continuing onwards throughout the day.

You may probably have an astigmatism, if not migraines, which not far from impossible since kids nowadays do wear glasses; your eyes may perhaps be strained due to vision problems, which could give you headaches.

In any case, I recommend you see a general practitioner or your family physician for a PT, and a general check up as well. And yes, it is possible to get headaches just by thinking of something too much.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Hi. Thanks for the detailed description. There are 13 types of headaches according to the International Headache Society. Your´s sounds like a ¨tension type headache¨, with bilateral pain on both sides that feels like a constricting band around your head, almost always relieved by rest and relaxation. The cause is not very well known but probably from constriction of the muscles of the scalp. If you feel you have to treat it, well, you can try a simple aspirin or Tylenol near the end of the day when you have math classes. If you think it is increasing, it wakes you up during the night, provoked by chewing, if you have visual problems, well it could be something else that is causing the headache. It could very well be a sore brain from the math classes. No, just kidding, the brain doesn´t have pain receptors. Good luck.

Answer 4

Sounds like a stress headache from whatever is stressing you in your math class. You may want to investigate further to find out what specifically about your math class is stressing you. Could it be a teacher? a student? the homework? the exercises?
Believe me, math class used to always give me headaches, and yes, it was the math itself.
Hope this helps.

Answer 5

That used to happen to me a lot around 4th period language arts. I just drank a butt-load of water when it hurt and it went away by the end of 5th period.

Answer 6

yes you can just relax and it could be the lighting my brother had that problem we dont know if it was too bright in the resturant or too dim or two yellow-or whatever it was-it can be the smell you might not notice it but it could be that talk to your parents and a councler about carrying meds.

Answer 7

i think it is a psychological headache, you just dont want to attent your math class