Brain Tumor: The presentation of headache due to a brain tumor is usually subacute and involves some concurrent neurological symptoms, but pain may be the presenting symptom. Diagnosis is relatively easy by undertaking radiological tests. Intracranial, meningeal, intraventricular and skull based tumors all present with headache. Head pain occurs due to pressure on pain sensitive structures in the brain, hydrocephalus, increased intracranial pressure, and periosteal inflammation. Headache is the first symptom of posterior fossa tumors except in cerebellopontine angle tumors than of supratentorial tumors.

How do you find out what is causing your Headache? Doctor's diagnose the causes of headache by taking a comprehensive medical history by asking you a series of detailed questions about the headache, your general health, your family history, your health risks, and much more. Based on this they then order a series of tests to further investigate what the think might be the problem, known as their differential diagnosis.

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YourDiagnosis takes a very comprehensive medical history online using easy to understand questions which you can answer by just clicking on the relevant answers. Once completed it provides a comprehensive list of differential diagnoses as well as a detailed Personal Health Summary which you can take to your physician. You can also use it to store your medical history and symptoms history that can be used by your physician(s) at a later date. This would help you as you will not miss providing important information to the different doctors you visit.