What do you do to cure a headache?

Answer 1

if it's sinus headache, take a cold and flu tablet (codeine as active ingredient) and I also use a nose spray to open the sinuses, on short term basis. Often that immediately relieves the pressure and eases the headache.
If it's a tension headache, try taking deep breaths and relaxing. Make a concious effort to relax your shoulders. Codeine or paracetamol and sleep are helpful if that doesn't work. Also try rubbing your temples with vicks vaporub... it works. But don't get it into your eyes!!
For Migraine too, plus total silence and darkness is required.
Always drink lots of water and ensure you eat regular meals, because dehydration or lack of food can cause severe headaches as well. At the start of one, I always drink a large glass of water, just to be sure.
Wear sunglasses when driving, sun glare causes headaches. Only sleep will get rid of those. Often turns into a migraine. I hate those..
And lastly, get your eyes checked. If you need glasses or your glasses are the wrong strength, you'll get pain too.

Answer 2

It depends on the cause of the headache. I suppose you get them regularly, and some tablets are not working as well now. Try some of these methods ... all work depending on why you have the headache.

1/ Drink water (the brain is 90% water and most people dring coffee or flavoured drinks ... but the brain needs water)

2/ DIET: keep a food journal for a month or util you have 3 headaches ... whichever comes first. Write down everything you consume (or even places visited) and see if there is a pattern to why you get the headache. Food dyes, sugars or substitiutes, alcohol ... they may effect you different from others. Otherwise, are some of the electrica equipement in areas you go to effecting your electrical impulses in the brain (eg: cell phones; microwaves; some monitors ...)

3/ THUMPING headache: the left and right sides of yourr brain have a pulse ... and if they beat at different times, they throw each side around. Find the pulse just above the eye-brow following the line up either side of your nose using index and middle finger of the same hand. Press hard enough to find the pulse for 20 to 40 secs. There is an almost inpercievable pulse in your fingertips that naturally allines the pulse in the brain.

4/ *REFLEXOLOGY: There are pressure points in the hands and feet that help massage other parts of the body. Where the bone of the index finger meets the bone of the thumb on both hands, press there (towards under the bone of the index)

5/ as a final suggestion before consulting a neurosurgeon ... do you need a larger hat size? Or are your plaites too tight?
0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o

* In Reflexology, there are nerves that leave the brain, go through the neck and down the arms. The nerves turn around in the hands and again after going down the legs, they turn at the feet. Then they pass through a specific part of the body before returning to the brain.
By massaging the feet and hands, that is like a massage to the parts of the body where those nerves pass (It is like if there is a blocked hose, the massage is like blowing through the hose to clear it)
Look up web sites for Reflexology feet and hand pressure point charts.

Answer 3

I get Migraines which cause me to have distorted vision excruciating pain and repeated vomiting so sometimes the painkillers don't get the chance to stay in my stomach. So i usually end up in the hospital. When they do i use, at the beginning of a migraine, CAFFERGOT, which is a caffeine and ergot-amine based tablet, it is for migraine and very effective as it releases all the swelling in the blood vessels that is causing the migraine. Any form of ergotamine is good, but you need a prescription, it is not a painkiller, but the result is no pain.. I also take a strong painkiller, a anti Semitic(stops vomiting)And i take a relaxer like Valium. Then i go and have a cool shower, not warm, that only makes your head pound worse, I drink as much as i can because dehydration makes a headache or migraine so much worse! then i try to sleep in a cool darkened room. Sounds extreme i know but as i said i have debilitating migraine.And that is how i have treated those headaches, because (a) it works (b) it stops me from having to leave my kids and go to hospital (c)It is better than being on a morphine drip.
For headaches i use a mild painkiller,lavender oil , drink water, and massage the pressure points in my forehead, neck(you will know where, try it and feel the pain release).
I feel for you and hope that amongst some of these answers you find something that works for you!

Answer 4

First recover from and banish the stress that started or added to the headache. If its an alergy, and you can guess what did it, throw away the offending substance. If you don't know, is there something you've been eating a lot of lately that you thought was so good? Many headaches are caused to allergies as yet unknown to the sufferer. To track it down, consider typical items: eggs, wheat (gluten), other cereals, and go without a thing for 6 weeks and see if there is a difference. Test things one at a time.
There are some medicines that have headache as a side effect so check into that when or before you are given a new prescription.

Answer 5

Much pain is from muscles below is an example of what may help (based on headaches).
Begin with a couple swigs of molasses or a couple of bananas daily - magnesium (which regulates many things in the body) and potassium (a needed building block for muscles).
Drink at least 1/2 gallons of water per day. Running a body low on water is like running a car low on oil is the analogy the head of neurology at UCDavis told my husband about 10 years ago.

Now to the cause - muscles - your back, neck shoulders and head have tender spots. They are knots in the fibers of the muscles called trigger points. It makes the muscles tight which makes them press on nerves and other things causing the pain.

The cure - start with a professional massage, you will also want to go back over any place you can get to 6-12 times per session up to 6 times per day rubbing (or lightly scratching on your head) every where that is tender until the knots go away. The place where the skull connects to the spine press up under the edge of the skull (to get to those muscles).

For more information read The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies. It teaches what to do and where the pain comes from.

Answer 6

When I have a headache myself I do the following because I don't really like using panadol or other pain relief medications

1. gently massage your face where the sinuses are located.
2. gently rubbing your ear lobes then pinching the bridge of your nose.

It's a natural reflex to rub your temples when you have a headache too. Don't eat anything when you have a headache either I find that when I do the pain gets worse, drink plenty of water.

My partner sometimes gets excruiating headaches so I do the same to them and it eases the headache. You might have to do either one of them continuously to feel any effect though.

Answer 7

Headaches arise for all sorts of reasons, some of which can be eliminated such as changing the type of eye glasses you are using. Other reasons are not so easy to eliminate and so managing your potential for headache is the only strategy available. You can avoid or limit as much as possible the primary causes of headache such as eye strain or glare from the sun. Also, don't be in a hurry to take a pain killer every time you feel some discomfit. Try to ride it out and so limiting your intake of pharmaceuticals, so on those fewer occasions when the pain is pretty bad, a pain killer does work and works fast.

Answer 8

I usually take paracetamol and sit in a dark room with no distractions my headache would be cured within 3-4 hours.

Answer 9

Perhaps the cause is more important than the cure. If they are recurring headaches......
I suffered from 3 migraines a week for 18 years. I had every test, and took horrible tablets prescribed by the neurologist, which gave me what I called "Migraine hangovers".
One friend suggested I stop eating anything made with white flour. Couldn't be that simple surely?
Stopped eating white bread, wheat pasta, donuts (darn) cakes etc.
Within a week.... no migraines. Amazing.
I think it's either the bleach or enzymes they use in white flour to make it super white and super fluffy, as I was tested for wheat allergies and am not coeliac.
Works for me.

Answer 10

Firstly i would drink a glass of water mix with 1 tab of aspirin and make my room up so it would be conducive for sleeping, dim or dark light needed.
Or ask any significance other to give you head massage.. press the fleshy part in between your thumb and your index finger, (this should help since this is the pressure point for headache)