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Suggest Treatment For Chronic Headaches And Dizziness

Hi just wondering ive been suffering with chronic headaches and have been having dizzy spells ..... ive been put in blood pressure tablets cause my pressure is high.......im feeling better since ive been on the medication...is it safe to say that the symptoms came from the high blood pressure...... also this happened since i had my baby girl 7 and 1/2 months ago...can tge pregnancy have a part to do with this?
Thu, 6 Oct 2016
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Chronic headache could be caused by high BP or other causes of secondary headache like infections and tumor.It may as well not be caused by your high BP.A primary headache like migraine may give you similar symptoms.
Pregnancy may cause high BP but this is expected to go away after birth with physiologic changes.Persistence of high BP suggest it chronic and was surely there even before you became pregnant.
I will suggest you try the following:
-Rest well and avoid stress
-Get good sleep
-Continue with your BP drugs and assure a good BP control
-Reduce salt intake
-Take a paracetamol/codeine combination like klipal during acute headache attacks
-If headache continues, you see the Doctor for test like typhoid and malaria test that may cause headache.
You may see a neurologist to investigate cause of headache if these measures do not help you.A brain scan may also be very important at this point.
Hope this will help
Best regards
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Suggest Treatment For Chronic Headaches And Dizziness

Hi Thanks for posting on HCM Chronic headache could be caused by high BP or other causes of secondary headache like infections and tumor.It may as well not be caused by your high BP.A primary headache like migraine may give you similar symptoms. Pregnancy may cause high BP but this is expected to go away after birth with physiologic changes.Persistence of high BP suggest it chronic and was surely there even before you became pregnant. I will suggest you try the following: -Rest well and avoid stress -Get good sleep -Continue with your BP drugs and assure a good BP control -Reduce salt intake -Take a paracetamol/codeine combination like klipal during acute headache attacks -If headache continues, you see the Doctor for test like typhoid and malaria test that may cause headache. You may see a neurologist to investigate cause of headache if these measures do not help you.A brain scan may also be very important at this point. Hope this will help Best regards