headache pain?

Question

I have a dull pain in the left side of my head. It's been hurting all day. I had a very stressful day yesterday which pretty much consisted of stress and 9 hrs driving around town. I was exhausted and was too stressed to eat much. Ive been eating today, but I'm still kinda hungry and really tired..It's kind of a shooting pain, but not really distracting. My nose is stuffed up, so it couldbe sinuses??

Answer 1

Sounds like a typical stress headache. Not so bad you wanna curl up in a dark room. but tough enough to make you know it's there. Sinus' usually is in the front of the face, either lower forehead, or near the eyes. Take some aleeve, it should lessen the pain.

Answer 2

If it was the left side of your face or forehead, then you should consider sinuses; but if it is the left side of your head, then it is something a bit more complex.
The joint that fixes your maxillar to your head seats right a bit under and ahead of your ear cavity. Inside such cavity you can find a very complex group of organs, which nerves are pretty much related to the others in charge of most areas and organs of the same side.
When you have an unstable occlusion and one of the teeth, specially molars, contacts before all the other ones, causes your maxillar to slip and actually "crash" against your head (to be more specific, the joint goes through a violent contact). That sort of contact hurts the organs inside your ear cavity and causes pain, which reflexes from around the ear to, in many cases, around the eye, all that area may go through pain.
This usually has its peaks when the person goes through a stressing situation, because stress causes that the chewing muscles get contracted much harder than usual.
Advice: try going to a dentist, someone specialized on occlusion, get a check out and start getting this annoying situation out of your life.
Try to remember if this happens everytime you go through stress or even when you get anxious about something.
Regards, Lifeguard.

Answer 3

#1 drink about 1/2 gallon of water per day - the head of neurorology at UCDavis (about 10 years ago) likened a car low on oil to a body low on water (engine siezing up).
#2 Daily muscle relaxer (1 or 2 swigs of molasses or 1 or 2 bananas) they contain magnesium and potassium.
#3 Massage therapy - professional or read The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies (it teaches you how). The principle that causes the headaches regardless of how severe is that muscles get knots (trigger points), which make the muscles stay tight, which press on nerves.
Your back, shoulders, neck and everywhere on your head will definitely play into the cause and it will take a while to get all the trigger points to go away.

Answer 4

I would try a saline nasal rinse (not a spray.) A full warm water saline rinse goes in one nostril and out the other. It draws out all the gunk and shrinks the tissue (like swimming in the ocean). The buffered salt doesn't 'sting' as much as plain salt water. You can use a new method like Nasopure, or the vintage, Netipot.

You don’t need a prescription for this therapy. If you live in a state like mine, they’ve pretty much “outlawed” sudafed medicine. Drug-free is really the way to go on a frequent-use basis.

Answer 5

Headache is a pain in the head, scalp or neck. Headaches can be
caused by minor problems like eyestrain, lack of coffee or more
serious reasons like head injury, brain tumors, encephalitis and
meningitis. Taking painkillers continuously can have harmful side
effects, so it is better to modify your lifestyle. More information
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