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What Causes Right Sided Pain In The Head?

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Posted on Thu, 23 Mar 2017
Question: I have sharp pains in the right side of my head
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Answered by Dr. Olsi Taka (34 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
More information might be useful

Detailed Answer:
I read your question carefully and I understand your concern.

I wish you had provided some more detail about the headache and its history though, there are many causes of headache, often difficult to identify, so at least a detailed history is needed.
You mention only the sharp character and the side of the pain. Some more details you could add are:
- its location,
- possible triggering factors (chewing, speaking,lack of sleep, alcohol etc)
- duration of the pain episodes (how many minutes/hours)
- frequency (how many episodes a day/week/month),
- since when have the painful episodes started
- accompanying phenomena like eye redness, tearing, congested nose, skin color changes, nausea or vomiting, vision changes etc, anything may be useful)
- other medical conditions, medications or tests you've had.

For the moment I can say that causes of sharp unilateral pain may include trigeminal neuralgia, occipital neuralgia, temporal arteritis, cluster headache, paroxysmal hemicrania, sinus/ear/tooth infections, temporomandilar joint dysfunction, etc. Perhaps might be able to exclude some of these once you provide the above information.

Looking forward to hearing from you again.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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Dr. Olsi Taka

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What Causes Right Sided Pain In The Head?

Brief Answer: More information might be useful Detailed Answer: I read your question carefully and I understand your concern. I wish you had provided some more detail about the headache and its history though, there are many causes of headache, often difficult to identify, so at least a detailed history is needed. You mention only the sharp character and the side of the pain. Some more details you could add are: - its location, - possible triggering factors (chewing, speaking,lack of sleep, alcohol etc) - duration of the pain episodes (how many minutes/hours) - frequency (how many episodes a day/week/month), - since when have the painful episodes started - accompanying phenomena like eye redness, tearing, congested nose, skin color changes, nausea or vomiting, vision changes etc, anything may be useful) - other medical conditions, medications or tests you've had. For the moment I can say that causes of sharp unilateral pain may include trigeminal neuralgia, occipital neuralgia, temporal arteritis, cluster headache, paroxysmal hemicrania, sinus/ear/tooth infections, temporomandilar joint dysfunction, etc. Perhaps might be able to exclude some of these once you provide the above information. Looking forward to hearing from you again.