CHARACTERISTICS

- If your head hurts with a dull, continuous pain that reminds you of a band squeezing your head, then you are afflicted with a tension headache.

- Localized, intense, pulsing pain, accompanied by an urge to vomit, indicates migraine. The headache may be preceded by visual disturbances, such as moving points of light.

- If one of your eyes is watery and red with a throbbing pain and nasal congestion on one side of your face, then this is a cluster headache.
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