The causes of headaches that prevent sleep at night include primary headaches and secondary headaches. Primary headache includes migraine, cluster headache, etc.; secondary headache includes drug factors, subarachnoid hemorrhage, etc..
1. Primary headache
(1) Migraine: due to the damage of intracranial pain-sensitive structures, frontal or temporal throbbing headache can occur, and the patient may feel like having a splitting headache, and can’t sleep because of the unbearable pain.
(2) Cluster headache: at the onset of the onset of periorbital popping headache, which may occur at night.
2. Secondary headache
(1) Drug factors: including the use of nitroglycerin, nifedipine and other vasodilating effect, after the use of drugs can be manifested in the night headache can not sleep. Generally, the symptoms will disappear gradually after stopping the medication.
(2) Subarachnoid hemorrhage: this disease is related to cerebral aneurysm and cerebral vascular malformation, if the attack at night, headache can be unable to sleep, and when it is serious, it can be life-threatening, so you should go to the hospital immediately.
When you have a splitting headache at night and can’t sleep, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time to clarify the cause of the disease and then target treatment.