Another sort of vascular headache, from high blood pressure

Another sort of vascular headache, from high blood pressure

People with hypertension do get more ordinary headaches than normotensive individuals.
The specific headache of severe hypertension is seldom seen these days. It is a dull headache at the very back of one's head, on awakening, relieved soon after first arising.

This is part of hypertensive encephalopathy, and resolves very rapidly when treatment is started, even before office blood pressure measurements drop.

Migraine and hypertension can both be manifestations of food intolerance. People tend to grow out of migraine and grow into hypertension, both with the same underlying cause.

Cervicogenic headache and sphenoid sinusitis are other headaches here at the back of our head.