What causes chronic headaches?

Long-term headache is usually seen in neurasthenia, migraine, tension headache, hypertension, craniocerebral lesions. 1. Neurasthenia: for sleep deprivation, mental overstress, life stress, easy to cause neurasthenia, resulting in long-term headache phenomenon. 2. Migraine: mostly lateral, moderate to severe, throbbing headache, usually lasts 4~72 hours, can be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sound, light stimulation or daily activities can aggravate the headache. It can be repeated. 3. Tension headache: repeated attacks, manifested as bilateral occipital or whole head tightness or pressure headache, accounting for about 40% of headache patients, the most common type of primary headache. 4. Hypertension: when the blood pressure is elevated, especially when the blood pressure is elevated to a large extent, the pressure inside the cerebral blood vessels increases significantly, resulting in the blood vessels filling the local meninges causing stimulation, which may cause pain in both temples, and in severe cases, it may also be accompanied by nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. 5. Craniocerebral lesions: Occupational lesions in the brain, such as brain tumors, can cause intracranial pressure rise due to occupational, thus causing headaches; cerebrovascular lesions such as cerebral atherosclerosis, cerebral infarction, etc., due to the narrowing of blood vessel cavities or obstruction of the brain tissue caused by insufficient supply of blood and oxygen, thus causing headaches. Long-term headache can also be caused by other reasons, it is recommended that the patient consult a doctor in a timely manner to clarify the cause and target treatment.