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Exertional headaches: They are also known as cough headache and they consists of brief, diffuse pain immediately following a cough or a sneeze. Although benign, these types of headaches can be worrisome because intracranial masses can produce headache with brief exertion. Headache also can occur in relation to sexual intercourse and is generally mild to moderately severe, located at the posterior side of the head due to excessive strain of the cervical structures. Orgasmic or coital headache occurs around the time of the orgasm is quite severe. Postural coital headache occurs after intercourse and only when the patient is upright.  

Posttraumatic headaches: Subdural and epidural hematomas due to head trauma sometimes present with headache, particularly in patients who are cognitively impaired due to which they are not able to provide a history of the head injury. Immediate and delayed effects of brain injury often include headaches. Posttraumatic headache can take many forms and occur in many locations. A number of superficial somatosensory nerves can be injured by local trauma including greater occipital, supraorbital, and supratrochlear nerves. Injury to any of these nerves can produce an aching pain.

Sinusitis: Frontal sinuses are a common cause of significant head pain, while the ethmoid, maxillary and sphenoid are less common. Pain is frontal and/or periorbital and it becomes worse on bending over or sneezing. Otitis can cause headache often in the region of the mastoid, as can pharyngeal abscesses and any dental infection. Tenderness and local symptoms help to distinguish acute headache originating from the ear, sinus, or pharyngeal region. Pain sensation that originates from the front of the face, sinuses, or the anterior scalp is carried to by the trigeminal system.

HIV: HIV can cause headache by a direct CNS infection leading to inflammatory pain. Also the different infections and neoplastic complications that arise in patients with AIDS can also produce headache along with the fact that the many medications used to treat HIV itself cause headache as side effects.

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.