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Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH) is a severe debilitating unilateral headache usually affecting the area around the eye. It normally consists of multiple severe, yet short, headache attacks affecting only one side of the cranium. Retrospective surveys indicated that paroxysmal hemicrania was more common in women.
Neurologists call headaches behind the eyes "retro-orbital headaches," which means "behind the eyeball socket." The rest of us call them "hell." The only thing worse than a headache is a headache ...
Needle-in-the-eye syndrome, sharp short-lived head pain, [1] jabs and jolts syndrome [2] Ophthalmodynia periodica , also known as " ice-pick headache ", is a primary headache disorder , so it is not caused by any other conditions.
Cluster headache is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent severe headaches on one side of the head, typically around the eye(s). [1] There is often accompanying eye watering, nasal congestion, or swelling around the eye on the affected side. [1]
Symptoms typically appear gradually over 5 to 20 minutes and generally last less than 60 minutes, leading to the headache in classic migraine with aura, or resolving without consequence in acephalgic migraine. [3] For many sufferers, scintillating scotoma is first experienced as a prodrome to migraine, then without migraine later in life ...
A migraine attack can be a debilitating condition. But a headache is just one part. There are other subtle warning symptoms to watch out for, neurologists say.
Ataxia telangiectasia (Louis–Bar syndrome) Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis (Sturge–Weber syndrome) (encephalofacial cavernous hemangiomatosis) Neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen's disease) Tuberous sclerosis (Bourneville's syndrome) Wyburn–Mason syndrome (racemose hemangiomatosis)
Hemiplegia (Greek 'hemi' = Half), is a condition that affects one side of the body. Signs of a hemiplegic migraine attack are similar to what would be presented in a stroke that typically includes sudden severe headache on one side of the brain, weakness of half the body, ataxia and aphasia which can last for hours, days or weeks.