Sinus Headache Symptoms

by Rose Williams

There’s a dull throbbing pain in your eyes, and you feel as if your head is about to come unscrewed from your neck. You could be suffering either from a migraine or sinus headache symptoms which are both similar. Doctors have even been known to misdiagnose sinus headaches and migraine headaches, sometimes prescribing a course of antibiotics for a sinus headache when what you’re really suffering from is a migraine.

Where you would get a sinus headache from blockage of your sinuses, a migraine can occur due to any number of reasons all of which vary from person to person.

Since the sinus headache symptoms are similar to those of migraines, most people will discard any factors they have in their lives as being the cause of their headaches, like stress and medications, and jump straight from point A to point D.

Bypassing a proper diagnosis in this way and believing they suffer from sinus headaches is a common occurrence, especially as many people will try to self treat themselves first before heading over to the doctor’s.

Having said that, even if you do go to see your doctor you might get treated for sinus headaches rather than a migraine.

So how do you stop this from happening, and how do you stop from being misdiagnosed? Although there’s no sure fire way to do this, a giant step would be for you to recognize sinus headache symptoms and migraine headache symptoms and not confuse the two.

If you know the difference between the two types of symptoms you can talk it over with your physician before jumping to any conclusions.

Sinus headaches symptoms include: pain and pressure mainly around the eyes, perhaps even across your forehead and your cheeks. You might feel feverish, and you might have facial swelling. Your nasal passage will most likely feel stuffy, and you might have mucous discharge. You may also get an achy feeling in your upper teeth.

These sinus headache symptoms aren’t always present if you suffer from sinusitis but they are a great probability. You might also be suffering from these sinus headache symptoms as a result of seasonal or weather changes.

Migraine symptoms include a severe pain or throbbing with perhaps sensitivity around the eye area. You might feel nauseous and have a sensitivity to light, loud noise or other stimuli.