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Could Bursting Pain In Head While Urinating Mean Recurred Stroke?

Yesterday I was having a bm and I was straining then all of a sudden I felt a sharp pain in my head almost like something burst inside my head. Well afterward I had a headache all day, I took aspirin and ibuprofen but it still hurt. When I woke up this morning it didn t hurt but when I would cough it would, and now sometimes it comes and goes. Could I have done some kind of damage, I ve had a stroke back in 07 from a blood clot. Thank you
Mon, 24 Nov 2014
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Hello dear,
Please accept my concerns for you.Abrupt onset headache ,which increases on any form of straining(including coughing) can be a symptom of some structural intracranial pathology like a mass lesion inside the brain or an aneurysm(even subarachnoid hemorrhage).Also it can also be a part of benign headache like primary cough headache(which is episodic and increases on coughing and other forms of straining like urination).You should,get a Computerised tomographic scan(CT scan) of head,without much delay.Please get in touch with a neurologist as soon as possible.I hope it was of help.
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Could Bursting Pain In Head While Urinating Mean Recurred Stroke?

Hello dear, Please accept my concerns for you.Abrupt onset headache ,which increases on any form of straining(including coughing) can be a symptom of some structural intracranial pathology like a mass lesion inside the brain or an aneurysm(even subarachnoid hemorrhage).Also it can also be a part of benign headache like primary cough headache(which is episodic and increases on coughing and other forms of straining like urination).You should,get a Computerised tomographic scan(CT scan) of head,without much delay.Please get in touch with a neurologist as soon as possible.I hope it was of help.