It is difficult when you are suffering every day with a constant, dull ache in your head, or behind your eyes. Headaches can be an extremely irritating and debilitating condition which can leave the suffering feeling severe pain, nausea, fatigue, and can , in the most extreme cases, stop the sufferer from being able to continue with their every day lives. I know how difficult it is to live with such a headache as I suffer almost daily from them also.

It is often hard to understand, and to treat, if you do not know the causes of the headaches in the first place. Sometimes the headaches happen suddenly, and blindly leaving you in horrible pain, sometimes they happen slow and gradually. To help begin to solve this, we need to know the causes of the headaches in the first place.

The two differ in the length of time that they will last, in the areas which will be affected, and in the effect it can have on your health. For example, cluster type headaches usually last for less time than a tension headache. But they can have extremely excruciating plain, and can come on with extremely little warning.

With tension headaches you may find that you may find that the pain continues for the entire day, beginning in the morning and meaning that by the end of the day you have to take some time for yourself. In opposition to this, cluster type headaches are often fast and are over a lot quicker than tension type headaches.

The causes of tension type headaches are not completely known, but there are some things which doctors believe may cause, or add to tension type headaches. These supposed causes are stress, squinting when reading, painkiller use and other extenuating circumstances. Lets look through them a little more closely.

Although you may not actually think or feel that you are stressed, it is quite often not something which is manifested until you begin to suffer from the headaches themselves. Quite often this results in a tension related headache, and it will build as the stress does. Similarly, painkiller over use is something which builds over time, we become dependent, and eventually the painkillers themselves can cause the headaches.

Cluster headaches do not have the same effect as tension type headaches. These are caused quite fast, and so can be quite painful, more so than any other type of headache. These are often caused by things which are instantaneous and cause a reaction that is so too. Eventually this headache will go away, usually a little after the cause is removed.

Of course, although the main causes of headaches are not conclusively known, most people will know what seems to bring on their headaches most. This could be anything from stress, or from travelling out into the sunlight. If you find that you get a headache when you go out into the sun, you may need to see your doctor because you could be light sensitive, which will cause headaches.

If you find that your headaches are due to sensitivity issues to light, check with your your doctor because they may be able to find easy relief for you.

This is the same if you are suffering headaches after you have been straining your eyes reading or looking at the television for an extended period of time. If this occurs, visit your optician.