Causes of headache are different. It is nowadays one of the most common, non-specific symptoms, which can happen under a variety of diseases and conditions. Migraine is one of the forms of headache, told News.am Medicine  Dr. Karen Nahapetyan, neurosurgeon, candidate of science in Medicine.

He mentioned two types of headaches: primary and secondary (symptomatic) pain. Symptomatic headache can occur as part of infectious diseases, vascular diseases etc. Primary headaches (cluster, migraine, tension headache) occur as symptoms to external stimuli and are not associated with the presence of certain diseases in the body.

«The difference between classical and common headaches (tension headache) and the migraine is that the pain during the migraine usually lasts from 3 hours to 3 days. Migraine hurts a certain area of the head or the half of it, while during the tension pains it can hurt the entire head, and there is an unpleasant «pressing» feeling. Though these two types of headaches resemble each other, and sometimes they may be confused, noted Dr. Nahapetyan, yet migraine is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, often people become afraid of daylight and artificial light, since it is unpleasant for them, also they avoid any conversations and sounds at all. The patient may hide in a dark room and often close his/her eyes. People with migraine tightly knot their heads, to get rid of that nasty feeling. Migraine often occurs from the morning, yet the tension headache comes at the afternoon.

Doctor also mentioned that in practice there have been cases when a the treatment of migraine was possible . In any case, someone with frequent headaches must apply for a professional medical help: a therapist or a neurologist.

Before taking analgesics, it is necessary to check the health condition, because the patient may have other diseases, too. For example, if someone has ulcer, the analgesics can seriously harm his/her health. Some preparations do not harm the patients, but neither do they help, because there is no therapeutic effect.

The most dangerous type of headache is the one that starts from the morning, pain becomes more acute while changing the position of head, its inclination, is accompanied by vomits,  limited mobility of the extremities, decreased consciousness etc. Therefore, if there is an increased intracranial pressure detected, it is necessary to be careful in this situation and apply for a professional medical help. Do not practice self-treatment or trust the wrong nontraditional medicine.

Migraine is more common in women, and it is connected with hormonal changes. Tension headaches are more common in men. At repeated headaches you cannot do without medical help and treatment.

Usually migraine is inherited, mostly by the maternal line, but not always a woman can pass the disease to the child.

Usually patient goes to neurosurgeon only in case, when the previous treatment did not help. «Usually the patient visits me after full medical examination, when there is a neurosurgical disease detected», - said the surgeon.

Remembering interesting cases from medical practice, Dr. Nahapetyan said that one patient was diagnosed - malignant brain tumor, but the day of surgery, doctors found out that it was just an abscess (purulent inflammation). «This cannot but rejoice patients and physicians», said Dr. Nahapetyan.

«Irradiation of cancer with gamma rays, protons, electrons or photons allows you to fight the disease, but in Armenia there is no appropriate equipment. Of course, we would like to have it soon, so that the people were not obliged to pay huge amounts of money travelling to other countries. Most likely, the Ministry of Health of Armenia will initiate the creation of a large oncological center in the nearest future », - said Karen Nahapetyan.