One of the most common complaints that patients come to a neuropathologist is pain in the temples. The reasons for this can be completely different - from intracranial pressure to poisoning. Statistics tell us that more than seventy percent of people suffer from chronic or short-term headaches. Most likely, the figure could have been greater if many did not consider this nonsense and did not self-medicate.
It's important to know!
Remember, if there is any pathology in your body, its main, and sometimes the only symptom may be pain in the temples. The causes of such suffering of the patient must be found and treated. Therefore, before taking any medications (or decoctions or infusions), consult a doctor. He should examine you, make a diagnosis, and only then write out a prescription.
Causes
Soreness in the temporal region can indicate many pathologies:
- violation of vascular tone;
- various autonomic dysfunctions;
- a constant increase in intracranial or blood pressure;
- atherosclerosis;
- arteritis;
- trigeminal neuralgia;
- migraines and more.
If you have insomnia, your fingers go numb, pressure often jumps, periodically tormented by dizziness, tinnitus - this indicates disturbances in the cardiovascular system. They can cause pain in the temples. The reasons lie most often in malnutrition and a passive lifestyle. As a rule, such pains are aching or breaking. Sometimes patients experience rare depressive attacks. Shortness of breath, aches in the whole body, sudden uncontrolled changes in the emotional state may occur. In addition, such patients are often prone to allergies and problems with the gastrointestinal tract.
With autonomic dysfunctions , pain often occurs in the right temple. The reasons for this need to be sought in violations of body functions, which are usually performed automatically. One way or another, but they relate to all organs and systems. The most common parallel process is irritable bowel syndrome, which often causes aching periodic pain in the lower abdomen, bloating, and stool instability.
What is the problem?
With an
increase in intracranial pressure, pain in the left temple is more felt
. The reasons are the accumulation of fluid between the membranes of the brain. Other symptoms of this pathology are: nausea, vomiting, visual impairment, rarely - convulsions, respiratory failure. This is a fairly serious disease that occurs in infants even in infancy and is not carefully treated in a timely manner. There is such a diagnosis - perinatal encephalopathy. It is put to many children, but not all parents consider it serious enough, but in vain! Ailment is capable of developing in a person all his life.
The first symptom of many terrible diagnoses is pain in the temples. The reasons for this are different, but often in this way our body makes it known that there are any pathologies. Be attentive to the signals of your body and visit a neurologist in a timely manner, because diseases in the early stages are much easier to treat.