A sudden onset of neurological incidence might indicate a neurological emergency. Therefore we strongly recommend visiting the emergency room of the nearest hospital.
Phone number: 144
Only in a hospital the neccessary diagnostics – especially concerning imaging – are available.
Do not lose time, because: „Time is brain!“
Another recommendation: Always take a list with yourself with essential medical information:
– Previous diseases
– Medication
– Allergies
It helps saving time!
Basic components of headache treatment are medical history, neurological examination, and often head imaging as well. The classification of different types of headache (with usually unremarkable findings in examination and imaging) is based on so-called “diagnostic criteria”. By keeping a headache calendar, it is also easier to “learn” about your own headaches and recognize individually helpful measures. The headache therapy has – generally speaking – 3 pillars (acute-medicinal, prophylactic-medicinal, non-medicinal), whereby it is recommended to exhaust the “non-medicinal measures” as far as possible. In addition, the clinical picture of “medication overuse headache” is worth knowing and is part of the article.