Frequent headaches and high blood pressure, what to do?

High blood pressure headaches can occur for many reasons. Unpleasant sensations usually appear in the back of the head and have a pulsating character. But to date, scientists have found that headaches do not occur with moderate and mild increases in blood pressure. Therefore, the diagnosis of hypertension is not enough to consider that the symptoms arose precisely because of it.

Causes and nature of headaches

The causes of pain in the back of the head with high blood pressure can only be detected with a thorough examination.

With hypertension, frequent discomfort in the head can occur in such cases:

• If a person has moderately high blood pressure, then a headache may occur due to psychological overstrain. Such pains are called vertebrogenic. They require treatment. Such sensations are quite frequent and may not go away even after normalization of pressure.
• The causes of headaches often lie in the hypertensive crisis. If the pressure jumps sharply and high, then the blood circulation in the brain is disturbed, a vascular crisis occurs. This condition can occur without any reason. In addition to throbbing pain in the back of the head, symptoms such as fever and trembling in the body, tinnitus, nausea, vomiting, and tachycardia occur. This is a rather dangerous phenomenon, since ischemia can develop and even a stroke or heart attack can occur.

The causes of headaches can be associated not only with hypertension, but also with other diseases, therefore, if such symptoms occur, it is better to consult a doctor.

Frequent headaches with hypertension are called cephalalgia.

It can be of several types:

• Vascular. Symptoms of such pain are heaviness in the head and a throbbing sensation in the temples and occiput. The sensations are aggravated by tilting the head, coughing or sneezing. The reasons are that the tone of the intracranial veins has decreased and the outflow of blood from the skull is difficult. Because of this, the intracranial veins expand, fill with blood, which causes pain.
• Muscle strain. There is a feeling of tightness, which then increases, then gradually subsides. Often there are accompanying symptoms in the form of nausea and dizziness, and weakness also occurs. The reasons are most often in emotional stress, which cause spasms in the tissues of the head.
• Liquor. The pain is bursting, throbbing in the back of the head, weakness. Unpleasant sensations are enhanced by even a slight movement. Such pain is characteristic of a sharp jump in blood pressure.

• Ischemic. A dull pain is felt in the back of the head and temples, symptoms such as stars before the eyes, nausea, weakness and dizziness are added to it. The reasons are also in a sharp rise in pressure.
• Neuralgic. It shoots in the back of the head so that it gives off to neighboring parts of the head, weakness occurs. Causes in nervous disorders.

It is worth noting that patients may experience several types of pain at once, for several reasons. In this case, it is necessary to find the root cause and eliminate it.

Noise disturbs a person constantly, this sound can be compared with ringing, buzzing, whistling. This often results in hearing problems.

Sometimes the noise is accompanied by dizziness and headache. To cure the noise, it is also necessary to determine its cause, only after that the doctor will tell you what to do.

Headache Treatment

Before starting the treatment of headaches, it is necessary to find out whether the symptoms are really due to hypertension. If, after measuring blood pressure, it is found that it is elevated, then it is necessary to use drugs that reduce it. In the case when, after the normalization of blood pressure, the pain does not go away, it is necessary to use analgesics.

Medicines for pain in the head are divided into several groups:

• Selective beta blockers. These drugs can reduce the strength and frequency of heart beats. Now they use new generation drugs, old-style drugs are not used.
• Calcium channel blockers. Calcium ions can cause unpleasant symptoms when blood pressure rises. They cause spasm of vascular smooth muscle. After the use of such drugs, the access of calcium to the vessels is blocked. They can also relax the coronary vessels, so calcium channel blockers are also used for coronary disease.
• Myotropic antispasmodics. They have similar properties to calcium channel blockers, but in addition, they relax the muscles of the gastrointestinal tract. These drugs include No-shpa, Drotaverine.
• ATP inhibitors. Designed to dilate blood vessels.
• Diuretics need to be taken to remove excess fluid from the body. This allows you to reduce the amount of blood and normalize pressure, after which the symptoms of hypertension, including headache, also decrease.
• Nitrates are used to lower blood pressure. This must be done very carefully, as the pressure can drop sharply. They dilate the veins and reduce the workload on the heart.
• Alpha-blockers relieve spasms from blood vessels. It also helps lower blood pressure. They should not be used in severe heart failure.
• Analgesics. If, after treatment with these drugs, pain in the back of the head and noise have not disappeared, it is necessary to take medications containing analgin. They have an analgesic effect. This spazmalgon, kombizpasm, citramon.

Preventive actions

To lower your blood pressure and relieve neck pain and noise, you can use a few simple recommendations:

• Rest enough time. This should be done in silence and in a well-ventilated area.
• Do a light head and neck massage.
• Drink mint or chamomile tea. These plants have a calming effect and will help relieve pain.
• Make a compress on the forehead with a towel soaked in cool water.
• Even in the absence of health problems, it is advisable to measure pressure in order to notice deviations in time and start fighting the problem earlier.

Headache with hypertension reduces performance, causes weakness and other unpleasant sensations. You can eliminate it not only with the help of drugs. To do this, you can make infusions of medicinal herbs, walk in the fresh air, drink enough fluids, avoid stressful situations, follow the rules of a healthy diet. Only after following these simple recommendations can we hope for an improvement in well-being.