Sleeping makes headache worse?

Question

Had a bad headache and I decided to take a nap for a couple of hours, and now my head feels like its going to expload.

Is this something normal?

Answer 1

It's not uncommon, lying down doesn't always work with a headache. Especially depending the type of headache.

Try taking a hot bath and relaxing. Is it a tension headache? Sinus headache?

You're in luck, I just finished typing up some headache excersizes for a friend of mine, so I'll share them with you.

Tongue Press
The jaw, which works like a hinge, is able to open and close thanks to the muscles of the jaw. These muscles attach to the sides of the upper vertebrae in the neck, which are located just behind the ears. When those muscles become imbalanced--from sleeping on one side or from an altered bite, which could be caused by a broken crown or unevenly filled tooth, teeth grinding, or even nail biting--you’ll feel the impact in your jaw.

This nifty movement helps the jaw muscles by employing the tongue as a spring to align the hinges of the jaw so that they open and close normally, thus retraining the muscles to work symmetrically.

- Sit or stand up straight with your head facing forward, or lie down on your back with your face toward the ceiling.
- Relax your jaw and mouth.
- Push the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth behind your upper teeth.
-Open and close your mouth with your tongue against the roof of your mouth, ten times.

Ear Tug
You might find it hard to believe, but this movement eases a tense jaw by elongating the tissues that tend to get tight and tense where the ear meets the neck. From the back of the neck to the front, this “tug” relaxes the muscles. IT also relieves pressure in the inner ear caused by grinding teeth or clenching a jaw. If your ears feel “full” when you fly, doing this tug will decompress the pressure in your ears.

- Sit or stand up straight with your head facing forward, or lie down on your back with your face toward the ceiling.
- Grasp your earlobes with your index fingers just inside the ears and your thumbs just behind.
- Gently pull your ears downward and out, and hold them for a count of ten

Cheek Release
If you grind your teeth or are prone to sinus headaches or jaw tension, doing this movement will relax the buccinators muscles, the sucking muscles in your cheeks, which keep the food between your teeth as you chew. As you do it, you may be reminded of that “face” you made behind someone’s back when you were in school. But now you can put it to more practical use.

- Sit or stand up straight with your head facing forward, or lie down on your back with your face toward the ceiling.
- Place your index fingers inside your cheeks.
- Gently pull your cheeks outward without straining your lips, and take a deep breath. Slowly exhale as you silently count to ten.

Tongue Loop
If your voice cracks and lowers when you get nervous, try this exercise, which rebalances the muscles attached to the tongue, as well as the muscles in the front of the neck that support the tongue and therefore affect how you speak.
When you do this Brill exercise the first time, you might find that it’s easier to do this in one direction. That is a sure sign that the length and strength of the muscles on either side of the neck and the tongue are out of balance.

- Sit or stand up straight with your head facing forward, or lie on your back with your face toward the ceiling.
- Stick out your tongue.
- Rotate your tongue slowly around your lips five times in one direction and then five times in the other direction.

Scalp Glide
Here’s a way to release tension in the connective tissue between the muscles in the front and back of your scalp. When you frown, muscles in the back of your scalp tense. Doing this gliding motion stretches the muscles that extend from the forehead up into the scalp as well as those that extend from the back of the head up to the scalp.

- Sit or stand up straight with your head facing forward, or lie on your back with your face toward the ceiling.
- Place your palms at the top of your forehead with fingers touching the scalp on either side.
- Glide the flesh of your scalp back and forth over your skull with your hands. Repeat ten times.

Forehead Roll
Not only will this movement relieve a tension headache. It’s also great for relieving eye strain, draining clogged sinuses, and relieving forehead tension. If you spend long hours doing paper work or logging in computer time, this one is for you.

- Sit or stand up straight with your head facing forward, or lie on your back with your face toward the ceiling.
- Place the index and middle fingers of both hands an inch above your eyebrows.
- Roll the skin under your fingers inward for a count of five.
- Roll the skin under your fingers outward for a count of five.

Answer 2

you have to find out why you had the headache, sometimes i get headaches if i dont eat enough, -so with out me know that info- i would go to sleep but i would awake to even more pain. you see what im saying

Answer 3

Normally a nap helps , but if you feel bad stay in a dark room with a cold compress in your head,that's excelent for the pain.
I hope this helps...