Headache

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Call your Health Care Provider if

Take the following symptoms very seriously. If you cannot see your health care provider immediately, go to the emergency room or call your local emergency number (usually 911):

• Your headache comes on suddenly and is explosive or violent.
• You would describe your headache as "your worst ever", even if you are prone to headaches.
• Your headache is associated with slurred speech, change in vision, problems moving any of your arms or legs, loss of balance, confusion, or memory loss.
• Your headache gets progressively worse over a 24-hour time period.
• Your headache is accompanied by fever, stiff neck, nausea, and vomiting.
• Your headache occurs with a head injury.
• Your headache is severe and localized to one eye with redness in that eye.
• You are over age 50 and your headaches just began.

For the following, see your health care provider soon:

• Your headache has lasted more than a few days.
• Your headaches are worse in the morning.
• You have a history of headaches but they have changed in pattern or intensity.
• You have headaches frequently, and there is no known cause.