Early morning headache may be caused by poor night sleep, apnea syndrome, or neurovascular headache such as migraine, tension headache, or stroke, brain tumor and other intracranial lesions.
1. Early morning headache can be caused by many reasons, first of all, it may be caused by emotional tension, poor quality of sleep at night, insomnia. This symptom disappears after emotional adjustment, regular rest, and exercise.
2. Nocturnal sleep apnea syndrome can lead to hypoxemia during the night sleep, and after waking up early, you will feel headache, dizziness, and poor spirit.
Neurovascular headaches such as migraine, tension headache and cluster headache may cause similar symptoms. This type of headache sometimes also develops when waking up early. 3. Migraine manifests as a more intense headache on one side of the head that lasts for more than 2~4 hours; tension headache may be related to poor rest at night, emotional tension, etc.; cluster headache manifests itself as a brief stabbing pain in pulsing episodes.
The most serious causes of early morning headache are acute cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, or the presence of intracranial tumors.
In conclusion, it is recommended to go to the hospital for early onset headache, through the cranial CT and other tests to help diagnose, especially for patients with recurrent headache, or persistent unrelieved headache.