#tension headache

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

Some chronic pain memes for extra hurty times

[themogaidragon]

Binocular Vision Disorder (BVD) Pride Flag

PT: Binocular Vision Disorder (BVD) Pride Flag /end pt

ID: a pale olive with two overlapping triangles. On the left is a black triangle, pointing towards the right. It's overlapped by a lighter gray triangle, coming from the right and pointing towars the left. In center are overlapping gray polygons. The lighter ones are semi-transparent, it makes the darker shapes beneath show through. /end ID

Grey is frequently associated with visual disabilities (link), and green on the disability pride flag represents sensory disabilities. The triangles overlapping = double vision reference.

Binocular Vision Disorder (BVD): dysfunction of binocular vision (put together by the brain with input from both eyes). BVD can cause blurred or double vision, photophobia, trouble focusing on small, faint, far away or up close objects and nyctalopia.

It often affects reading: needing to reread, skipping lines, losing track, trouble with long without punctuation. The eyes and brain have to overcompensate, resulting in head and neck tension, which can cause eye pain/strain and headaches.

Conflicting infos beteween sight and nonvisual sensory canals that sight supports can cause disorientation, vertigo, dizziness, motion sickness, trouble walking straight or frequent collisions, sensory overload, anxiety in crowds or large places.

BVD is pretty comon, though frequently missed, since it's vastly unknown. If you have ADHD and/or double vision when you zoom out, u should prob look into it.

PSD link.

[isara-art]

I went to several doctors to diagnose my case, I have a headache and it's almost been two years since it started with me.

At the beginning of this year 2025, I went to ENT, I did Xray and he told me everything is normal just little bit of inflammation, then to Neurologist and I did MRI and everything is fine, thank god.

At the end they diagnosed me with either a migraine or tension headache.

Now, I went again to another ENT and this time I did CT SCAN, and it's the same, everything is normal, and the doctor assured me this won't cause this type of headache, she told that I might really have migraine and advised me to see neurologist, so I am going again to see another one too, but based on everything, I might suffering from Migraine.

So to all my dear people who is suffering from Migraine.

Tell me, what do you do to feel better? To make the symptoms of migraine less? How do you treat it? Is there anything you did and it's useful to get rid of these attacks?

Please, anything that might helping me, because these days I feel drained and don't want to do anything just laying down, I don't even want to work.

[athenas-educational-infodumping]

Something like 99% of all humans will get tension headaches over the course of their lifetime. About 18% of all women, 6% of all men, 10% of all children, and 12% of all humans (approximately one entire billion of us) experience migraines. This means that literally everyone needs to know about tension headaches, how to manage them, and when to get medical help. It also means that, given the high rates of migraines, to say nothing of other headache conditions or conditions with headaches as a symptom, literally everyone needs to be able to tell when their headache ISN’T just a tension headache. (Other types of headaches include, but are not limited to: cluster headaches, trigeminal neuralgia, sinus headaches, ice pick headaches, and medication overuse headaches)

The World Health Organization’s report of the state of treatment, knowledge of, and research into headache disorders makes it clear that the single most important thing to do to help people deal with headaches/headache disorders is to improve education about them, so this is my small contribution to help. (I am personally affected which is why I fell down this rabbit hole of research and why I now feel like info dumping on the topic)

In this thread I will post about tension headaches, their causes, symptoms, and treatment options, and how to tell the difference between a tension headache and other types of headaches. I will address other headache types more generally elsewhere.

Some sources below read more

Types of Headaches: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, and More

Although most people experience occasional headaches, the cause, duration, and intensity of pain can vary by type. Here's what you need to k

12% of the population suffers from migraine, the 6th most disabling illness in the world. Migraine is an extraordinarily prevalent neurologi

In the United States, roughly 39 million people and about 1 billion worldwide have migraine disease. Women are at a higher risk of developin

[rb3tree]

I apparently have tension headaches. The recommended treatments is to look at screens less and exercise more. I already cut out caffeine, have a good sleep schedule, have a balanced diet. I struggle with fatigue so more exercise doesn't feel particularly doable, I really enjoy walking so already exercise as much as I can. I am a full time student trying to work on (already immensely overdue) coursework, I can't really look at screens significantly less. Combined with the recommended lifestyle changes to manage fatigue, it seems like I should just spend any spare time meditating. I hate meditating. I hate hearing my thoughts. No thank you.

Any advice for dealing with tension headaches would be appreciated.

[oopsidroppedicarus]

Thought about writing poetry to describe my current state of being but then I realised that no flowery words can describe my place in the world better than "imagine the psyduck from pokemon concierge but so so so tired"

[pet-goblin]

enough about migraines for a sec where's the tension headache fandom 😔

[migi-the-right-hand]

God I wish they invented a head that doesn't hurt