What is the throbbing pain in my head?

Pulsating pain in the right side of the head signals, as a rule, migraine. It is a migraine that provokes such a symptomatology only with the left or only with the right side. Sometimes unpleasant sensations can be provoked by a hemorrhage, presence of parasites( cysticercosis), oncological formations.

Conditions causing pulsating pain on the left or right:

1. Paroxysmal hemicranium.
2. Cluster headache.
3. Hematoma is epidural or subdural.
4. Tumors of the brain.
5. Parasitosis of the brain.
6. Aneurysm of the cerebral arteries.
7. Glaucoma.
8. Inflammation of the middle ear.
9. Head trauma.
10. Epigendrom and eclampsia.

Attacks of pulsating headaches

Paroxysmal hemicrania are migraine attacks preceded by a specific aura: intolerance of loud sounds, bright light. Often there are symptoms of increased intracranial pressure, such as nausea and vomiting. Often, suffering from this disease during an attack narrows one pupil. Pain is painful, patients describe it as drilling. Patients are very irritable, because migraine attacks can occur up to 16 times a day. Paroxysms can provoke foods, bright lights or sharp sounds, which makes a person often irritated by close people who are trying to help him.

Cluster headache differs from migraine neuralgia in that its attacks do not prevent migraine symptoms, called aura. However, the symptom also covers the eye and orbit. The person experiences a painful throbbing pain in the left side of the head, does not find a place, is restless. This pathology is also called Gariss's neuralgia. The aggravation of this condition is typical for the off-season period - in the autumn or in the spring.

For epilepsy, like migraines, aura is characteristic, which is a harbinger of an attack. Photophobia is characteristic both before epileptic seizures, and before paroxysms( attacks) of a migraine.

Glaucoma - a disease associated with a violation of the outflow of fluid through the fountain spaces of the eye, as well as an increase in intraocular pressure. In addition, intracranial pressure increases.

Pulsating pain in the head when it is tilted to the side is typical for such a disease of the maxillary sinuses, as a sinusitis. At the same time, the purulent content flows into the side of the slope, as a result of which the patient feels the tension.

Tumors of the pituitary gland, large hemispheres and other brain formations can lead to pulsating pain in the head to the right or left. Neoplasms squeeze vessels and nerves, causing seizures. Causes unpleasant sensations and traumas of a head, such as concussions and bruises of a brain.

Cysticercosis of the brain can cause pain along with neurologic disorders. Pulsating pain in the head on the right side, as well as on the left side, can indicate the average otitis media, i.e. Inflammation of the middle ear and Eustachian tube. The accumulation of purulent exudate in the auditory tube can be manifested by pulsating shooting pain.

Vascular pathology

Hematoma is a hemorrhage that, under the influence of coagulation factors, has turned into a jelly-like mass of coagulated blood. Hematoma exerts pressure on the pain receptors. Possible the formation of pulsating hematoma, in which there was no complete coagulation of blood. This kind of it also squeezes the brain tissue. Subdural and epidural haematomas are removed by trepanation of the skull.

Hypertensive illness and symptomatic hypertension can be the causes of pulsating pain in the occipital part of the head. High blood pressure contributes to the appearance of a symptom, causing an increase in intracranial pressure, and then nausea and vomiting. In this sense, hypertension is very similar to a migraine.

An aneurysm of the cerebral artery also can cause severe pulsating pain in the head at the site of its localization. This disorder is a hernia of the vascular membrane, which interferes with the normal functioning of the vessels.

Important! As a result of rupture of the vessel there is a hemorrhage, leading to disability or death.

Conclusion

Pulsating headache, the causes of which should be set by a neurologist, needs timely detection and therapy. It is important to identify diseases that lead to irreversible consequences( aneurysm, tumors, etc.) in a timely manner. If you suspect otitis media of the middle ear or sinusitis, you should visit an ENT doctor.

Treatment of otitis media will help to eliminate the discomfort caused by it. If there is hypertensive disease, then the elimination of an unpleasant symptom is possible with the intake of antihypertensive drugs. Pulsating pain with edema of the brain is eliminated by special anti-edema therapy.