DON'T SAY A HEADACHE

There may be many causes of headache

Headache is a complaint that can withstand a wide variety of causes that almost every individual encounters at least once in their lifetime. Although the cause is not frequently important, it should be known that some symptoms or complaints accompanying headache indicate important neurosurgery problems. Apart from relatively benign diseases such as migraine, cluster headache, tension headache, and sinusitis, brain vascular diseases, brain hemorrhages, brain tumors, and blistering in the brain are also rare, but they are important causes of headache. Awareness of the individual's complaints or symptoms accompanying headache indicates the headache associated with neurosurgery will enable the patient to meet with the right physician at the right time.

Early diagnosis has the most important role

Complaints such as vomiting, visual disturbances, personality changes, weakness in the arms or legs, and imbalance accompanying the headache should direct the patient to the examination by a neurosurgeon or neurologist. As in all other systems, early diagnosis has an important role in cure (recovery) and survival in neurology and neurosurgery diseases.

Do not be afraid to be examined!

Whether the physician, neurologist or neurosurgery specialist you apply with a headache complaint will listen to your complaints first, perform your physical examination and draw a path for your examination and treatment in the light of the information obtained. Radiological examinations such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MRI) are often the ones that your doctor will apply upon suspicion after listening to patients' complaints and performing a physical examination. Therefore, your hesitation that such examinations may be harmful should not prevent you from being examined, your doctor will not apply to these examinations when they do not need them.

Don't worry about unnecessary worries

As a result of the evaluation, your treatment will be arranged by a neurologist or neurosurgeon if necessary. Fortunately, the percentage of detection of these diseases, which concern neurosurgery, in patients with headache should be known to be quite low, and it should be understood that the patients can be removed from undue worries by the relevant physicians in a timely and appropriate evaluation.