head ache while working out

[supervizor55]

When ever I am working out and I strain to lift the weight like after a couple of reps I get a headache in the same spot. After a while it just becomes a dull pain and it isnt really a bother but i am just wondering if anyone knows wat it is?

[Jean-Paul]

Maybe it is referred pain from your neck or something. Or maybe you have some blood pressure problems. That can cause headaches as well. There may be external factors that we are not privy to... You may be quitting caffeine cold turkey or taking some andro-based supp, or steroids. You haven't given us much to work with. Without much more detail all I can recommend is to take an alleve and call me in the morning.

BTW, welcome to the forum! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Craig]

Exertional headaches. Talk to your doctor.

JP, what do andro supplements have to do with this?


Craig

[Ikan Twin]

i had this problem about 2 years ago. i'd do warm up sets, but as soon as i got to working sets, it would startup & get worse as i tried to tough it out. my "same spot" was right side of my head, from where neck meets skull up around to the temple. then it was happening during sex, so i figured it was time to see a doctor. he told me to see an eye doctor & get an mri. the mri was over $2000, so i cancelled that, but found out i needed glasses. i also stopped the weights for 3 weeks straight, & have never had it since (about 18months of headache-free weightlifting). just to let you know what worked for me.

search the web for "weightlifters headache" or something along those lines & go see a doctor. here's one article: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/5351/42216

hope that helps...

[Jean-Paul]

Originally posted by Craig:
Exertional headaches. Talk to your doctor.

JP, what do andro supplements have to do with this?


Craig

Don't really know... They used to give me headaches. I had to quit taking them. I was taking a stacked supp that had androstinedione, tribulus terrestrus, and something else. Don't know if quitting is what made them go away... just made me think there was a connection.

[trainiac]

I say talk to your doctor. It could be an aneurysm. Not to scare you, just be safe and rule it out. Does it happen when you run too? And make sure you aren't doing the Valsalva maneuver (Don't hold your breath as you lift).
---Trainiac!
http://www.clintphillips.com/

[bryanc]

I don't mean to be anti-alarmist, but are you suggesting that he might be experiencing chronic, repeated bleeding into the brain space? How likely is it that one could actually experience _chronic_ aneurysms without severe symptoms or dying?

[trainiac]

Bleeding? Probably not. But do you want to be the one that tells him that? More likely is a weak spot that swells when the blood pressure rises (as in intense exercise) which could burst and bleed. Better safe than dead.

I don't know if you're qualified to play doctor. I'm not. But I am qualifies to say "Better go see your doctor," and that's what I'm saying.

Cheers!

[bryanc]

Nope, not qualified to be a doctor. And I'm not suggesting he NOT see a doctor, but that you not simply throw the term aneuryism around unless that's actually what you're referring to.

Vessel swelling is not the same thing as an aneuryism. Neither is it necessarily a predictor of one. Exterional headaches are linked to vessel swelling, but not linked to "weak spots" in vessels either.

By all means, see your doctor, as he/she is the only one who will be able to rule out an organic disease, but there's no need to use improper terminiology to describe what may be a benign symptom.

[trainiac]

My friend, I don't know what your agenda is. This type of petty bickering is what I can't stand about some message boards. I thought this one was showing signs of being better, but....we'll see. I have this much more to say about it, and I'm done. It's not worth that much time. In my opinion, this dude needs to see a doctor, period, end of subject.

As for your questioning my use of the word aneurysm, maybe you'll believe the Encylopedia Britannica. Here's what they have to say about it:

"a bulge or enlargement of some point in the wall of a blood vessel (usually an artery) resulting from disease of the vessel wall. Disease or injury can weaken an artery or cause thinning of its walls, which tend to balloon outward from the pressure of the circulating blood, forming a sac."

See anything in there about it having to be ruptured or bleeding? I don't. That's what's called a stroke, not an aneurysm. Aneurysms can lead to strokes, and that's one thing this guy needs to keep in mind.

About the vascular headaches (I'm getting one now...). They have to do with GENERALIZED swelling of MANY of the blood vessels in the brain, as opposed to one potential weak spot.

When this guy's blood pressure goes up (as in strenuous exercise), if he has a weak spot, it is likely to "balloon outward from the pressure of the circulating blood."

---Trainiac!
http://www.clintphillips.com

[bryanc]

Sorry, my bad for confusing the strict definition of aneuryism for the colloquial one. I should know better.

But, this I _do_ know. Aneuryisms can lead to strokes, but a stroke is not necessarily an aneuryism, nor a product of one.