I had a wild and crazy Saturday night. It began with a lab write-up for organic chemistry, followed by an essay and topped off with cell biology. Pure Hopkins debauchery.
My night of excess would have continued if not for the intense headache I began to have. I took a Tylenol and went to bed, cutting my night of fun short. But what happens when you have a headache?
“Well, headaches can happen for dozens of reasons,” Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the medical school Eric Kossoff said.
“It can be serious, like an aneurysm or stroke, or more benign like a migraine, sinusitis or even neck muscle spasms.?The brain doesn’t have pain receptors, but nearly all of the rest of your head does – arteries, veins, muscles and your dura (the covering of your brain).”
The brain tissue itself has no pain receptors but other parts of the head do. When they sense pain, either due to stress, physical ailment or environmental stimulus, you experience it as a headache.
I was glad to wake up the next morning with my headache gone. Fortunately I didn’t have a migraine. What is the difference between a migraine and a headache?
“Migraines are a type of headache,” Kossoff said. “Some neurologists argue that all ‘typical’ headaches are migraines too! Many people think that a sinus headache and a tension headache are different, but probably all are migraines in some way. A migraine starts in your brainstem, spreads to your trigeminal nerves, then involves your dura and brain blood vessels.”
Migraines are often associated with sensitivity to light (photophobia), noise (phonophobia) or smell (osmophobia).
“Some migraines can be associated with aura (seeing lights or having visual distortions),” Kossoff said.
I decided to take a study break Sunday evening. A few of my friends and I went to Cold Stone, where I ordered a milkshake. I was short on time, so I decided to drink the milk shake as quickly as possible. The result: brain freeze.
According to Kossoff, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (brain freeze) happens when cold objects touch the roof of your mouth and the nearby blood vessels react by immediately constricting. Your brain’s blood vessels react to the constriction by dilating? The rapid dilation causes the headache.
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