Hypertension causes the headache.
Headaches cause by hypertension usually saw in people over age 50, women tend to catch the disease more than men, level of pain depends on blood pressure indicator and psychological state of the patient. Headaches caused by hypertension usually occurs at the end of the night, last up to when you wake up and reduced when the patient began working. Location of pain is usually localized in the occipital region or forehead, which can spread over the top and often balance the two sides of the head. In the pain, the patient feels tired and stiff muscles in the neck, nape. Headache changes over the progression of blood pressure: pain decreases as lowering blood pressure and vice versa, pain increases when stress and pain decreases when relaxing. The pain is often accompanied by palpitations and dizziness.
It depends on the changes of blood pressure index and psychological state as mentioned above. In the case of hypertension causes complications, headache is the early and loyal signs of cerebrovascular accident. Unexpected and fierce headache parallel with skyrocketed high blood pressure and neurological disorders such as loss of balance, blurred vision or blindness, seizures, weakness, disorders murky consciousness or coma, etc. At that time, giving emergency aid to the patient is necessary.
For headaches, caused by hypertension, patients often accompanied by a sensation of psychological, emotional instability. Sometimes, patients are depression. However, there is no entity disorder when having neurological examination (except the case of hypertension leading to seizures).
Therefore, to accurately diagnose and prevent the complications of hypertension, we need to see the cardiovascular and nervous specialist and if necessary, doing some more additional test such as ECG, X-ray of chest, echocardiogram, EEG, blood biochemical tests, etc.
In short, to treat headaches caused by hypertension, we need to stabilize blood pressure.
