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Suggest Treatment For Headaches And Migraines

My brother has been feeling what he describes as water in his head once in awhile. It causes him a lot of head pain, migraines. It goes away for a long while and maybe a couple months later he feels it again. Please tell me what it can be and how to treat it.
Fri, 27 Feb 2015
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Hello dear,
Thanks for being on healthcaremagic.com. If you would have presented to me as an outpatient,I would have made the following clinical explanation-
Though the symptom you have mentioned 'water in head' does not appear to be classical for any headache type.However,looking towards the temporal profile of the headache it likely appears to be a primary headache only as it is episodic and episodes are infrequent(once in a 2 months).Most likely diagnosis,I can suggest here is 'Migraine'.Migraine is an episodic headache disorder where headache is pulse like,unilateral(on one side) and is associated with the following typical symptoms are-
1)nausea
2)Photophobia and phonophobia(headache worsens on exposure to bright light and sound)
3)Visual aura
Headache like 'water in head' is though not typical but migraine headache can have bizarre presentations sometime.I would suggest you to visit your physician and discuss with him to put you on a trial of anti-migraine therapy.I hope it helps.
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Suggest Treatment For Headaches And Migraines

Hello dear, Thanks for being on healthcaremagic.com. If you would have presented to me as an outpatient,I would have made the following clinical explanation- Though the symptom you have mentioned water in head does not appear to be classical for any headache type.However,looking towards the temporal profile of the headache it likely appears to be a primary headache only as it is episodic and episodes are infrequent(once in a 2 months).Most likely diagnosis,I can suggest here is Migraine .Migraine is an episodic headache disorder where headache is pulse like,unilateral(on one side) and is associated with the following typical symptoms are- 1)nausea 2)Photophobia and phonophobia(headache worsens on exposure to bright light and sound) 3)Visual aura Headache like water in head is though not typical but migraine headache can have bizarre presentations sometime.I would suggest you to visit your physician and discuss with him to put you on a trial of anti-migraine therapy.I hope it helps.