Tension Headache Signs and Symptoms
A tension headache can last from 30 minutes to an entire week. You may experience these headaches occasionally, or nearly all the time. If your headaches occur 15 or more days a month for several months, they’re considered chronic. Unfortunately, chronic tension headaches sometimes persist for years.
A tension headache may cause you to experience a dull, achy pain or sensation of tightness in your forehead or at the sides and back of your head. Many people liken the feeling to having a tight band of pressure encircling their heads. In its most extensive form, the pain feels like a hooded cape that drapes down over the shoulders. The headache is usually described as mild to moderately intense. The severity of the pain varies from one person to another, and from one headache to another in the same person. Many people report that the pain starts first thing in the morning or late in the day when work stress or conflict at home is anticipated.
Some people with tension headache experience neck or jaw discomfort. There may also be:
* Tenderness on your scalp, neck and shoulder muscles
* Difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
* Fatigue
* Irritability
* Loss of appetite
* Difficulty concentrating
Unlike some forms of migraine, tension headache usually isn’t associated with visual disturbances (blind spots or flashing lights), nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, weakness or numbness on one side of the body, or slurred speech. While physical activity typically aggravates migraine pain, it doesn’t make tension headache pain any worse. A few people with tension headache experience an increased sensitivity to light or sound, but this isn’t a common symptom.
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