chronic headache
Recurring head pain
A chronic headache is head pain that persists or recurs frequently over an extended period—typically defined medically as occurring fifteen or more days per month for at least three months.
The term distinguishes ongoing conditions from occasional headaches: She's been dealing with chronic headaches since the accident.
Chronic headaches may stem from tension, migraines, medication overuse, or underlying conditions.
- migraineSevere neurological head pain
- tensionStretched or strained state
- throbbingRhythmic painful pulsing
- poundingForceful repeated striking
- ice pickPointed tool for frozen blocks
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- Headachesmigraine, migraine with aura, ocular migraine, brain freeze, hemicrania
- psychosomatic disordersconversion disorder, functional disorder, hypochondriasis, somatization, hysterical blindness
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