Feeling pain in the temples is not necessarily a blood vessel blockage, may be caused by lack of sleep, diet and other physiological reasons, but also may be high blood pressure, migraine, cerebrovascular disease and other diseases. If you often feel swelling and pain in the temples, you should pay attention to it and seek early medical treatment, so that the doctor can make a clear diagnosis.
1. Physiological reasons: lack of sleep or excessive stress can lead to temple pain, rest or remove the trigger can be relieved, is a normal physiological factors.
2. Pathologic causes
(1) Hypertension: Hypertensive patients may show symptoms of temple distension and pain, which may be accompanied by obvious dizziness, headache, nausea, flushing, etc., which can be clarified by blood pressure measurement.
(2) Migraine: Migraine may be characterized by swelling and pain in the temples, and may be accompanied by throbbing pain in the head, nausea, vomiting, palpitations, insomnia, and so on;
(3) Tension-type headache: it accounts for about 40% of headache patients. This disease is caused by pericranial muscle or myofascial contraction or ischemia, inflammatory mediator release and other triggers. There are also factors such as depression and anxiety.
There are many causes of temple swelling and pain. If you often feel pain in the temples, or accompanied by other symptoms, should be taken seriously, early medical care, diagnosis of the cause of the disease, symptomatic treatment, so as not to delay the condition.