Tinnitus and headache
1. Patients with tinnitus often have headaches, but the relationship between the two is not always accidental.
2. Headache and tinnitus may be symptoms of the same disease
3. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a common headache and tinnitus syndrome.
4. Headache and tinnitus often appear together with other symptoms of symptomatic intracranial hypertension.
5. Intracranial vascular abnormalities, such as arteriovenous malformations (AVM), can cause paroxysmal tinnitus.
6. Tinnitus may be a sign of a basal migraine.
7. Headache is a widespread symptom. After head trauma, tinnitus is also common in post-traumatic syndrome.
8. A patient with tinnitus and headache symptoms should carefully examine the nervous system, including complete neuroimaging.
Headache is the most common condition in neurological consultation. They estimated the lifetime prevalence of headaches to be 66%. While 47% of the current population suffers from headaches, it is not surprising that there are tinnitus patients in such a high prevalence. However, the relationship between these two diseases is not always straightforward. Headache and tinnitus are symptoms of the same disease, and patients with increased or decreased cerebrospinal fluid pressure, basal migraine, or carotid artery dissection have these symptoms. Headache is also common in patients with chronic tinnitus, and the relationship between these symptoms is unclear