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Not all headaches hurt the same — here's how to know what type of pain you're having

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Not all headaches hurt the same.

Some, like migraines, make the sides of your head throb for days on end. Others, like tension headaches, may be felt as pressure in the neck and forehead and disappear in a few hours.

Here's how to know what type of pain you're experiencing and how to treat it best:

 

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Erin was a senior health and tech reporter at Business Insider based in San Francisco, where she focused on startups and Silicon Valley. She's broken news on a variety of life science and health-tech stories, including: Before joining BI, Erin worked as a freelance health and science reporter for outlets including Newsweek, Popular Science, and Scientific American. Erin graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, San Diego and received her master's from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York, where she spent an extra semester completing her degree after breaking both wrists in a snowboarding accident.
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