Headache is experienced very differently and triggered by many different reasons. We use different diagnosis for head-aches, depending on the characteristic of the symptoms. We may name it with words like Tension Headache, Migraine, Cluster Headache. A common feature of the various diagnoses is that we doctors not know why it occurs, even though we present different theories like muscle tension, reduced blood flow in the brain, dehydration, inheritance, etc. These theories only describe possible accompanying findings, but not why the person headaches right now. As with many other illnesses, we can describe the symptom as a way the body responds to a strain of unknown reason, in this understa
Hovedpine opleves forskelligt og udløses af mange forskellige årsager. Ofte bruger vi læger forskellige navne for hoved-piner, afhængig af symptomernes karakter for bedre at kunne forholde os til dem. Det kan eksempelvis hedde spændingshovedpine, migræne, klyngehovedpine. Fælles for de forskellige hoved-pine diagnoser er, at vi ikke ved, hvorfor de opstår i det enkelte menneske, selvom vi kommer med forskellige teorier som muskelspænding, nedsat blodgennemstrømning i hjernen, væskemangel, arv m.m. Disse teorier beskriver kun eventuelle ledsagende fund, men ikke hvorfor personen hovedpiner netop lige nu. Som med mange andre symptomer og tilstande, kan man beskrive symptomet som en måde, hvo
