One of the great concerns that hang over us when we suffer severe pain in the head has to do with a brain tumor. But the statistics affirm that only in 5% of the cases in which a patient presents a headache of these characteristics, it is conditioned by a cancerous disease. Severe headaches can scare us a lot because on some occasions they are nothing more than manifestations of the presence of serious diseases, so we must be attentive to their symptoms in order to react appropriately to the situation.
Causes of severe headaches
Some of the most severe factors that can cause a severe headache have to do both with possible bleeding in the brain and with vascular problems, such as an abnormal connection between the veins and arteries in the brain (arteriovenous malformation)., a weakening of the wall of a blood vessel with a high chance of rupturing (cerebral aneurysm), a stoppage of blood flow to a part of the brain (cerebrovascular accident), or bleeding in the area between the brain and the tissue that contains it. overlies (subarachnoid hemorrhage).
Others are the causes that can determine the presence of strong migraines in our body. This is the case of the aforementioned brain tumors, high blood pressure, an infection in the brain or in the tissue that surrounds it, an accumulation of fluid inside the skull, carbon monoxide poisoning, an accumulation of pressure in the skull or an inflamed artery that supplies blood to areas such as the neck, temple, or head.
Given any of these cases, we will have to make the immediate decision to go to our nearest medical center. Especially if the severe headaches manage to wake us up, last more than a few days, the headaches have changed in intensity or pattern, the headaches recur frequently and without any known cause, or if these headaches are worse in the morning.