Headaches in patients with glaucoma are often caused by high intraocular pressure that irritates the trigeminal nerve endings.
Glaucoma patients tend to have high intraocular pressure (IOP), which stimulates the supraorbital nerve, a branch of the trigeminal nerve, and may compress the trigeminal nerve and cause radiating pain, manifested as ipsilateral headaches, when IOP is sharply elevated. Therefore, when the intraocular pressure rises sharply, eye distension is often accompanied by ipsilateral headache.
Glaucoma patients with headache, it is recommended that patients go to a regular hospital in time, ask the doctor to carry out a professional and careful examination, formulate a personalized treatment plan, and carry out targeted treatment.