Headache is one of the most common reasons for an emergency room visit.
Migraine headache emergency room.
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The best reason for an er visit is for unusual symptoms that are new to you.
Migraine can be an intense disease that causes pain sensitivities to light and sound and nausea and vomiting.
Seems worth giving up the room for a few hours for what s essentially curative therapy for a miserable condition.
If the headache is occipital and radiates forward at all it could be occipital neuralgia which often responds quite well to occipital nerve blocks.
Resources webinars management of your headache in the emergency room go back.
Chronic or severe headaches are a common reason for er visits mainly because they can be signs of a wide range of other critical conditions.
When migraine is an emergency there are definitely times when you should go to the emergency room for a headache even if you know it is a migraine.