After a concussion, I experience pain in the back of my head. What to do?

Hi,

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I would like to know some further details about headaches.

1. Since when you started to have these headaches? since a month after concussion only?

2. In which part of the head you had a concussion and what hit your head? how many days of concussion pain lasted? Did you became unconscious or had any seizures at the time of the concussion?

3. What kind of headaches do you feel now at the back of the head whether heaviness or bursting or squeezing or stretching or throbbing or some other kind?

4. Is your headache intermittent or persistent? if intermittent, what is the lasting duration of a single headache episode without taking pain killers?

5. Do you feel any nausea or vomiting during the headache episode?

6. Is headache associated with any redness in the eyes or watering from the eyes or nasal blockage?

7. Have you noticed any specific trigger factor or timing for this headache till now?

8. How frequent are these headaches nowadays? (how many times in a month)

9. How is the intensity of headaches whether it is mild or moderate or severe?

10. Are you taking Ibuprofen and Tylenol daily? or taking in SOS basis?

11. How is your vision of distant objects and near objects?

12. Do you have any other significant past medical history? If yes, please tell

Other information:

1. How is your sleep routine? Do you get sleepy soon after laying in bed? or it takes a long time? Once got sleepy, do you have frequent awakenings during sleep? Do you feel fresh on awakening from sleep in the morning?

2. How is your usual mood in day-to-day activities? Happy or toward the sad side (thinking about past events) or toward the worried side (thinking about future things or irritable or something else)?

3. How is your appetite?

Hi,

Welcome back to icliniq.com.

As per your description, the location of head concussion and the location of headache is totally different, so it does not seem to be trauma-related. With your description, there may be a possibility of post-concussion headache, cervicogenic headache, and tension headache. As you have already done CT (computed tomography) head and neck, which you told to be normal, may still have some findings missed in the CT (particularly in the neck region). But it can be picked in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). Also, I would like to know whether you have any neck pain along with it. If yes, please describe its character, type, intensity, aggravating factors, and its relation to neck movements. I also suggest you quit taking analgesic tablets, as sometimes excess analgesics can aggravate the headache, causing medication overuse headache.