{"id":1269047,"date":"2022-12-22T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/when-should-you-see-a-doctor-about-a-headache\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T18:03:24","slug":"when-should-you-see-a-doctor-about-a-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/when-should-you-see-a-doctor-about-a-headache\/","title":{"rendered":"When should you see a doctor about a headache?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ae6f799649124a35972fa419db1f0301\"\/>If you suddenly have the worst headache you\u2019ve ever had, or if it comes with neck pain, vomiting, high fever, difficulty speaking, confusion, or numbness or weakness, head to the ER, because there are a number of things it could be that require immediate attention.<\/p>\n<p>But even when it\u2019s not an emergency, if you\u2019ve never had a migraine before, if it feels different than a migraine you\u2019ve had in the past, or if it hangs around for a few days and OTC pain relievers don\u2019t seem to help, why not have it checked out? Your doctor will likely order an advanced imaging test, like a CT or an MRI, to ensure everything\u2019s looking normal, Dr. Porter says.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: You don\u2019t have to live with the pain. If a headache is interfering with your everyday life, see your doctor or a specialist, like a neurologist, to figure out what\u2019s going on because, chances are, it\u2019s something other than a tumor.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Healthstyle (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nOTC<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you suddenly have the worst headache you\u2019ve ever had, or if it comes with neck pain, vomiting, high fever, difficulty speaking, confusion, or numbness or weakness, head to the ER, because there are a number of things it could be that require immediate attention. But even when it\u2019s not an emergency, if you\u2019ve never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8302,14556],"class_list":["post-1269047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-doctor","tag-headache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}