Headeche, Chronic Tension Types

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What is chronic tension headache?

Tension headaches can happen when you're feeling stressed, tired or angry. If you have chronic tension headache, you get these headaches a lot of the time

Doctors say you have chronic tension headache if you get tension headaches more than 15 days a month for at least three months.

Chronic tension headaches are usually mild, but they happen often.

Chronic is a word doctors use to describe any medical condition that people live with for a long time. It doesn't mean that a condition is severe. In fact, tension headaches are usually fairly mild. But it's because they happen so often that they can be a problem.

We don't know for sure what causes tension headaches.

• Some doctors think the pain is caused by tension in the muscles of your neck, your face or your scalp. This kind of tension can be triggered by stress, worry, depression or anger.
  Bad posture can also cause your muscles to tense up, especially if you work at a desk all day.
• But other doctors don't think these headaches are caused by tension in the muscles at all. So they prefer to call these tension-type headaches.

Chronic tension headaches are different from migraines. Migraines are very bad headaches that can make you want to lie down in a dark room. To read more, see our information on Migraines and Migraines in children.

Most people with chronic tension headache have had headaches on and off for years.

About 1 in 6 people say their headaches began before they were 10 years of age.

You are more likely to get chronic tension headaches if:

• You're a woman
• You're a young person
• You do very little exercise
• Other people in your family get headaches.

sources: ConsumerReport.org