Muscular Tension Headaches

MorganGrayson · 10-13-2005

My doctor took the approach much more like Jim's wife's doctor. "Tension headache" is literal. It isn't "tension" as in "anxiety," it's "tension" as in "tightness." The way I think of it when it happens to me is "my head is on too tight." It can come from injury, posture...the ever popular "of course you've hurt yourself if you spend that much time on the computer!" (My own personal favorite.) I had real splitters, agonizing headaches, until my yearly optometrist visit came around and my eye doctor said "you do WHAT for a living? People who wear bifocals can't use a computer!!!!" And thusly my "computer glasses" came into being. (I can see clearly exactly 27 inches away from the bridge of my nose in those things. No closer, no farther. But...the headaches stopped.) I had been attempting to maneuver my head into the oddest positions to see the monitor without realizing it.

10-13-2005	#4
MorganGrayson None $100 for every ImLive sign-up Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 4,321	Re: Muscular Tension Headaches My doctor took the approach much more like Jim's wife's doctor. "Tension headache" is literal. It isn't "tension" as in "anxiety," it's "tension" as in "tightness." The way I think of it when it happens to me is "my head is on too tight." It can come from injury, posture...the ever popular "of course you've hurt yourself if you spend that much time on the computer!" (My own personal favorite.) I had real splitters, agonizing headaches, until my yearly optometrist visit came around and my eye doctor said "you do WHAT for a living? People who wear bifocals can't use a computer!!!!" And thusly my "computer glasses" came into being. (I can see clearly exactly 27 inches away from the bridge of my nose in those things. No closer, no farther. But...the headaches stopped.) I had been attempting to maneuver my head into the oddest positions to see the monitor without realizing it.