Whether your headache is a stroke, know how to differentiate between a migraine and a stroke headache?
Headache is very common for all of us and often it gets better on its own or with minor painkillers. Headache can be due to many reasons. This can be due to migraine, excessive anxiety, sinusitis or due to glaucoma or loss of vision, swelling or tumor in the brain. But, it can also be a symptom of an impending brain stroke. How to differentiate between migraine and stroke headaches? Before talking about the relationship between headache and stroke, let us know what is a stroke. In simple language, the blockage of blood supply to our brain is called stroke. There are mainly two types of stroke: Blood clot in which the artery supplying blood to the brain is blocked, due to which our brain cells start dying. And second, hemorrhagic stroke, in which the artery bursts and blood starts flowing inside the brain. According to research, migraine patients are more prone to stroke, in stroke, numbness of one part of the body or feeling of weakness in one part with headache, slurred tongue and ...