Headache

Warning Signs That Shouldn't Be Ignored

Published in Blood Weekly, September 15th, 1997

Headaches usually are not serious. But they can be ominous signs of major problems.

Headaches are present in 60 percent of patients with brain tumors, 70 percent of brain abscesses, and a third of stroke cases, writes Dr. David Dodick in a recent article in Postgraduate Medicine. "Warning leak" headaches precede about half of brain hemorrhages, and headaches are the single most common symptom of a subdural hematoma and inflammation of the temporal artery in the face, which can lead to permanent blindness.

Only rarely does a serious condition give rise to a headache that exactly mimics a migraine or tension headache. Inevitably atypical...

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