need some answers for helping me with a bad headache?
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Place a banana peel on your forehead.
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start taking vitimin B complex pills...and a B6 pill too.  B6 is suppose to help with headaches, but it works best when you take all the B's...I don't remember why though.  Make sure to drink lots of water, more than 8 glasses a day.  If you want to spice it up...use something like Crystal light or some flavoured waters, but make sure you have lots of it.  There are things on the market to smell that are suppose to help get rid of headaches, but I have never tried them.  I cold cloth on the back of the next feels great when you have a headache.  Make sure that you are getting enough sleep, lack of sleep is horrible for headaches.  And, eating...relatively properly will help too.\nI hope these websites help too.  I have been suffering from headaches for years and I feel your pain...haha.  \nGood luck!\n:)
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I find lavender oil to be a really good, natural cure for headaches. Just put a couple of drops on the ends of your fingers and rub gently into your temples, giving yourself a little massage. \n\nIf that doesn't work, try something like Syndol (don't know about the spelling but it's a medication for tension headaches). Sometimes your headache stems from a tense neck and this will take the pressure off your neck muscles, thus relieving your headache.\n\nHope it works for you.
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Hi Alex\n\nHere is a plan to help with your headaches.\n\nQuick Action Plan for Headaches\n1. Since food allergies can play a role in over 90 percent of certain types of headaches, such as migraine, it is important that you be screened for food allergies and sensitivities, and avoid eating all foods that you are allergic or sensitive to.\n\n2. Emphasize a diet of fresh, organic foods with an emphasis on vegetables, especially dark leafy green vegetables, salads, free-range organic poultry, wild-caught, cold-water fish, and non-gluten, complex carbohydrate foods, such as red potatoes, squash, and yams.\n\n3. A helpful dietary remedy for headaches is “potassium broth,” which can be made by combining washed but unpeeled carrots and potatoes with a variety of potassium-rich green vegetables into a pot of water. Bring the water to a boil, and then simmer for ten to 15 minutes, then strain out the broth and sip it throughout the day.\n\n4. To help prevent and reverse headaches, supplement with B-complex vitamins, vitamin B3, vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, along with eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), evening primrose oil, and the amino acid DL-phenylalanine.\n\n5. Certain herbs can also help prevent and reduce headache symptoms. These include bay leaves, cayenne pepper, chamomile, coriander, garlic, ginkgo biloba, ginger, skullcap, turmeric, valerian root, wild yam, and willow bark.\n\n6. Since headaches are often due to chronic muscle tension and/or muscle spasm, bodywork can be extremely helpful in minimizing the risk of headaches, especially Alexander Technique, Bowen Therapy, Feldenkrais, massage therapy, Polarity therapy, Structural Integration and Rolfing.\n\n7. Hot baths, saunas, and steam baths can help ease headache pain by increasing blood circulation and easing muscle tension.\n\n8. Learning how to cope with daily stress by practicing relaxation exercises can also significantly reduce the incidence of headaches. One of the simplest methods of relaxation is simply to close your eyes as you sit comfortably in a chair, breathing gently and deeply through your belly. Do this for five minutes at a time and repeat throughout the day.\n\n9. At the first sign of migraine symptoms, add two tablets of Alka-Seltzer Gold to a glass of water and drink immediately. This simple technique can often halt migraine symptoms very quickly.\n\n\nBest of health to you  \n\nCheers
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take an aspirin..and drink plenty of water..not sure what the chemistry is behind it but i guess its cooling and so..helps! looking at the computer screen also contributes to headaches..as it puts a lot of strain on the eyes. i'd say..get some rest!
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I just learned this in class, so I'm going to give you a VERY complete answer :)\n\nThere are different types of headaches (believe it or not), and each type of headache is caused by different things.\n\nMigraines are caused by hormonal changes (ie: estrogen), stress, changes in sleep habits (this alters your serotonin levels), alcohol, narcotics, glaring/flickering lights, and certain foods like aged cheese, red wine, and MSG.\n\nTension headaches can be caused by muscle spasm on your neck, shoulders, and the back of your head.\n\nSinus headaches are caused by congestion around your sinuses.\n\nRebound headaches are caused by the withdrawal of caffeine.\n\nChronic daily headaches can be due to medication overuse, anxiety, or depression.\n\nCluster headaches are an EMERGENCY!  When your headache is only on one side, and the eye on that same side of your head also is droopy and tearing, and you feel really restless (ie: you find yourself pacing the floor), and you suddenly get the WORST headache of your life, then go to the emergency room IMMEDIATELY, and make sure your doctor sees you within 4 hours.\n\nMost headaches start when something changes your serotonin levels, and causes your blood vessels to narrow in your head.  At this point, there's no pain yet.  Later, your blood vessels will widen and become inflamed.  This is when you start feeling pain.\n\nThere are a number of things you can do to treat headaches and get rid of them:\n\n1) Keep you sleep habits the same everyday (it'll keep your serotonin levels constant)\n2) Avoid MSG, alcohol, aged cheese, red wine\n3) If you're a constant coffee/soda drinker, know that whenever you cut back on your usual amount of caffeine, you'll usually get a headache.\n4) Over-the-counter medications include Excedrine, Motrin (these two drugs decrease the inflammation and stop pain), and Imitrex (this drug decreases the effect of serotonin).\n5) If you go to your doctor, they can prescribe medications to decrease the ability of serotonin to cause inflammation (ie: triptans, tri-cyclic anti-depressants), drugs to make your blood vessels go back to its normal size (ie: beta blockers), calcium channel blockers, and topiramate.  Alot of these drugs also have other uses (ie: for the heart, anxiety, depression, seizures), but they're given at  different doses for different effects.
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See a neurologist.\n\nThey can prescribe meds to PREVENT headaches, and to stop them once they start.\n\nYou have to find out what is causing your headaches. Migraine? Tension? Cluster headaches? Sinuses?\n\nRight now, take either a hot rag, or one you have chilled in the freezer, and put it over the part of your head that hurts.\n\nTry to relax. Quiet. Dark...
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You don't want to go overboard - but some caffeine is allowed.  My pregnant cousin's doctor told her to drink cola or other drinks with caffeine to try and help get rid of headaches.
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Don't sleep more than 8 hours in a day. The more you lay around the more tired you get and it's the reason you have a headache. Eat a balanced diet, too. This is something you're probably sick of hearing but it's important for energy.
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Sleeping is the only way I can get rid of my migraines but to ease the pain I've found caffeine sometimes works, pulling on my hair, tying something tight around my head (in a kung-fu-fighting style... I use the belt from a bath robe), putting anything that is very hot or cold on my head... and when all else fails I just bang my head against a wall, I really do!
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Find out what is causing them and treat that rather than the headache itself and it will go away more quickly.  Like stress, light, sinus/allergy, ect.\n\nI get headaches frequently and finally figured out that I have to treat each headache as a separate issue, because they can be caused by many things.\n\nI used to get headaches in grade/high school and finally figured out that I'm sensitive to florescent lights and sitting by a window so the natural light could diffuse the florescent light made a big difference.\n\nNow days the make several different types of painkillers, such as tension, sinus/allergy, migraine...
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rub your temples with some peppermint oil...it helps a lot. or check out the aromatherpy line from bath and body works, they have some stuff for headaches that works great!
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how many servings of fruits and vegetables do you eat? i suffer from chronic migraines, and i know when i eat 10+ servings of fruits and veggies my headaches are minimal, and are not as severe when i get them. also, drink TONS of water. in the winter you may not be drinking enough water because you do not feel as "thirsty" as you would in the summer. also, avoid drinking coffee/tea/pop that has caffeine in it, because they are diuretics, which will dehydrate you, and make any headache worse. hope that helps!
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I don't know where you can get free help, but maybe this will help. My husband was getting bad headaches for a while. First the doc told him that it was tension headaches and gave him meds. They didn't work then the doc gave him a Rx for migraine headaches. That did not work either. Well my husband went to a chiropractor with his dad and told the doctor about his headaches. The doctor scheduled an appointment and after the first visit the headaches were gone. A chiropractor might help you as well.
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Studies have shown that since the human body is made mostly of water.. If you have a headache, try drinking a glass of water..\n or two.. \n Also, have your eyes checked.and wear sunglasses while outside.
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Drink plenty of water to rehydrate your body.Also taking a couple of aspirin may help the headache.Sleeping a little more can help you get over the groggy feeling.I use to drink, 6 years ago I quit cold turkey.I use to have to do what I have mentioned.
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Today is your lucky day.  I found a cure for migraines without medications.  I suffered for weeks at a time with migraines.  I was told that prescriptions didn't work, so I didn't go to a doctor.  One night, my head felt so solid tight, I could hardly breath.  I was so sick to my stomach. I could hardly stand.  If only I could stick my head in a bucket of hot water to open the pores in my head to increase the circulation.  Then I got the idea to get in a hot shower and let hot water hit my head.  I was so sick to my stomach, I had to hold on to the walls of the shower.  The pain was unbearable.  To my surprise, the pain started to leave the area where the hot water was hitting my head.  I noticed a pain in another place on my head, so I just moved the hot water to that area.  Within ten minutes, all the pain was gone, and the water was getting cold.  I got out of the shower with no headache.  I figured that if the pain returned, I would wait for the water to heat up again and repeat this.  I just left my hair wet.  My hair got cold and the pores in my head that were opened with the hot water were now closed.  The headache did not return that night.\nThe next day, I started to get another headache.  I jumped in the shower immediately to repeat the previous days shower.  This time, I did not have to wait ten minutes for the headache to leave.  It was gone in five minutes.  I again left my hair wet and my head got cold.\nThe third day, I waited for the headache to return.  No headache came.\nMonths passed and I was ready for another migraine.  I had one slight migraine ten months later.  Now remember, I was having migraine headaches that lasted weeks at a time, would stop for a few days, and then repeat for weeks again.  \nI wrote to the Institute of Migraine Headaches of this discovery.  The doctor warned me not to try things without a doctor and sent me lots of literature on the subject.  This doctor was a specialist on migraine headaches.\nTwo year later, I saw a large article from this doctor telling that he had found a cure for migraine headaches that his patients had found successful and stopped migraines completely for over two years.\nYou guessed it..He told the readers about the hot shower.  Everything was exactly as I had told him.  The only difference was that he said to turn cold water on your head to close the pores.  I just left my head wet.