What Is New Daily Persistent Headache (NDPH)? New daily persistent headache, or NDPH, is a headache that begins suddenly, doesn’t seem to have any specific cause, doesn’t go…

What Is an Ice Pick Headache? What’s the best way to describe how an ice pick headache feels? It’s like someone’s stabbing your face with an ice…

When it comes to headaches, the difference between one rare type of head pain and more common conditions is a matter of night and day. Imagine going…

What Is Hemicrania Continua? Hemicrania continua is a headache disorder that causes constant pain on one side of your head and face. The level of pain may…

Is It a Tension Headache or Migraine? Whether you’ve had headaches for years or you started getting them recently, it’s important to know what type of headache you’re dealing…

What Are Tension Headaches? Tension headaches are marked by dull pain, tightness, or pressure that can feel like a clamp squeezing your skull. Also called stress headaches, they’re the most…

Your eyes water. Your nose runs. One side of your head really hurts. You may wonder: Is it a cluster headache or migraine attack? These two neurological…

Cluster headaches are a series of relatively short but very painful headaches that happen every day for weeks or months at a time. You tend to get…

You may have heard the terms “mixed tension headache,” “chronic daily headache,” “chronic tension headache,” “mixed headache syndrome,” or “tension-vascular headache” before. Experts group all of these…