Everyone has that one friend who can make you feel better about anything. Even if you don’t think your life is over, that person can always find a way to make you smile. The problem is, those same friends probably won’t be able to fix your head hurting when you shake it problem. When we hear the word “shake,” our bodies usually imagine something uncomfortable and dangerous: a hard surface jostling our internal organs. But for some people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), shaking actually makes their heads hurt more than normal. This isn’t because their bodies are more fragile than the average joe; EDS patients have any number of other factors that cause their heads to hurt more often than others. But it does help explain why some people with this connective tissue disorder find it so hard to stay happy-go-lucky: When they shake, the pain from their sheared nerves shoots through their head and down their spine like an arrow.
Why Does My Head Hurt When I Shake It?
There could be a number of reasons why your head hurts when you shake it. One possibility is that you are having a seizure. Please see our seizure page for more information on seizures.
What’s The Cause Of My Head-Shaking?
- The first cause of your head hurting when you shake could be due to a lack of oxygen getting to your brain. What’s happening is that the blood vessels in your head are not sending enough oxygenated blood to the brain. When this happens, it can cause short-term symptoms like dizziness and fainting as well as long-term problems like headaches and migraines.
- If you are having a seizure, it can cause your body to go into shock, which can then lead to bleeding in the brain or heart, which will also hurt your head.
- The second cause of your head hurting when you shake could be spinal cord injury from a fall or accident. While this is unlikely for someone who has not had an injury before, there are other reasons why this might happen including A) Spinal cord injury from a fall or accident B) Spinal cord injury from surgery C) An infection D) A tumor E) Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS). For more information about GBS please see our page on Why Does My Head Hurt When I Shake It.
- Another possible cause of your head hurting when you shake is high blood pressure (also known as hypertension). This is usually caused by stress and other factors that can lower the pressure in our body but if these things aren’t controlled then they can lead to high blood pressure which can affect our nervous system causing a number of things including headaches and dizziness as well as a number of other disorders.
- Another possible cause of your head hurting when you shake is a tumor in the brain or head. These tumors can be benign or cancerous and are more common in older people. They can also be caused by other things like infection, trauma, and surgery as well as being genetic. Please see our page on tumors for more information about this and other types of tumors.
- The next possible cause of your head hurting when you shake is a stroke, which is when there is damage to the blood vessels in the brain that causes them to not get enough oxygenated blood to the brain causing symptoms like numbness, paralysis, and/or impaired vision or speech as well as headaches, dizziness and/or fainting.
What Should I Do If I’m Having Head-Shaking?
1. If you can’t stop shaking your head then you may have a neurological disorder such as a brain tumor. If this is the case, then you will need to see a neurologist or neurosurgeon see if they can diagnose and treat the problem.
2. If you do not want to seek medical treatment for your shaking head, then there are some things that you can do to help manage it:
- You can try using an elastic band or rubber band on your head and try to stretch it out over time. This will help stretch out the muscles in your neck and keep them from tensing up and hurting when you shake your head.
- You can use ice packs on your neck in between treatments or place them under your pillow at night.
- You can also try using wrist supports which are designed especially for people with chronic pain or conditions such as arthritis where they may be having problems with their hands, wrists, and/or fingers but they work great for people who also have problems with their neck too! Please see our page on wrist supports for more information about these devices.
- Finally, if none of these things help then please go see a doctor who has experience treating neurological disorders like this so that they can look at all the possible causes of this problem and treat whatever it is that is causing it so that you don’t continue to hurt yourself by shaking your head over time.
3. If you do not have a neurological disorder that is causing your head-shaking problem, then there are some things that you can do to help manage it:
- You can try using an elastic band or rubber band on your head and try to stretch it out over time. This will help stretch out the muscles in your neck and keep them from tensing up and hurting when you shake your head.
- You can use ice packs on your neck in between treatments or place them under your pillow at night.
- You can also try using wrist supports which are designed especially for people with chronic pain or conditions such as arthritis where they may be having problems with their hands, wrists and/or fingers but they work great for people who also have problems with their neck too! Please see our page on wrist supports for more information about these devices.
- Finally, if none of these things help then please go see a doctor who has experience treating neurological disorders like this so that they can look at all the possible causes of this problem and treat whatever it is that is causing it so that you don’t continue to hurt yourself by shaking your head over time.
4 . The most common cause of a person’s head hurting when they shake their heads is a condition called benign positional vertigo (BPPV). This condition causes the inner ear to become misaligned causing symptoms like dizziness, nausea, and/or vomiting as well as headaches, nausea, balance problems, and/or ringing in the ears. The following are some of the things that can cause this condition: In some cases, BPPV is caused by an ear infection that goes unnoticed because it is not painful. The good news is that this condition often goes away on its own and there is no need to treat it with medication. If you have been diagnosed with BPPV, then please don’t try to shake your head or do anything else that will make your head hurt more by using a pillow or any other object in order to try to feel better. Instead, please see a doctor who has experience treating neurological disorders like this so that they can look at all the possible causes of this problem and treat whatever it is that is causing it so that you don’t continue to hurt yourself by shaking your head over time.
What Type Of Cure Have For My Head-Shaking Problem?
1. The best cure for this problem is to see a doctor who has experience treating neurological disorders like this.
2. If you don’t have medical insurance then you can try to see one of the doctors listed on our page on non-medically insured people who suffer from head-shaking problems. If you don’t have any of the doctors listed there, then please go to your local hospital emergency room so that they can treat you for this problem and send you home with a prescription for medicine that will help stop your head-shaking problem.
3. Finally, if none of the above help you, then please go see a doctor who has experience treating neurological disorders like this so that they can look at all the possible causes of this problem and treat whatever it is that is causing it so that you don’t continue to hurt yourself by shaking your head over time.
Conclusion
As you can see, there are a lot of things that can cause a person to hurt their head when they shake their head. This is why it is so important for everyone to make sure that they don’t hurt their head when they shake their heads. The good news is that there are a lot of things that you can do to help prevent this from happening in the first place. By doing these things and by following the advice listed above, then you should be able to avoid hurting your head while shaking your head whenever it feels uncomfortable.