For what reasons can the left or right side of the face and head hurt?

1 Causes of Facial Pain

It is the facial pain that can appear as a result of irritation of the facial muscles, nerve endings, as a result of damage to the facial bones and the front part of the skull, with inflammatory processes on the skin, due to migraine. The cause of pain symptoms may be osteochondrosis, cluster headaches and other diseases that can simply give sensations to the facial muscles. Thus the patient can complain of a pain on all face or in its separate parts. Muscle pain can appear in certain areas and have the following origin:

• neurological and mental illness;
• incorrect bite or dental problems;
• persistent stressful situations;
• sensations after the received traumas;
• cervical osteochondrosis;
• visual impairment and eye swelling.

If the person hurts for any of the above reasons, then this is the case when you need to go to a neurologist. Most often in such cases, you will be prescribed medication to relieve pain symptoms and treat the very cause of the ailment.

Of course, there are cases when the cause of pain on the face are skin rashes, allergic reactions. A person on his face can manifest different skin pathologies. The result of painful sensations is the resulting injuries, the consequence is the formation of edema and hemorrhages in the subcutaneous layer. A concomitant headache is only the result of the discomfort being tolerated and the return of symptoms to the entire surface of the scalp.

The most severe for diagnosis are neurological cases in which it is necessary to determine correctly which of the nerves is affected. Thus the person can feel, that half of face hurts. This can be the right side or the left side. For the treatment of ailment, medicines, physiotherapy are used.

2 Simultaneous pain in the head and face

If the patient complains of simultaneous pain in the head and face, in most cases it is associated with migraine. This diagnosis has its own peculiarity. The patient says that a certain side of the face hurts. The symptom is manifested only in one part of the head and rarely spreads to the other. This pain can be characterized as strong, having a drilling character. It may not stop for 18-36 hours. Migraines are most affected by women between the ages of 20 to 30 years, then eventually the symptom weakens.

In the case when the right or left side of the face hurts, the main cause is the clustering headaches that arise serially. There are times when the patient complains about the eye problem, while the pain sensations simply give into the nerves of the eye. Most often with such a symptom, men who have bad habits come to the doctor, namely, the abuse of alcoholic beverages and constant smoking. The doctor can immediately identify the symptoms on the mucous membranes of the eyes, which strongly water and blush.

When a patient complains of pain of the left or right side of the face( also it turns red, as if burns, the head starts to hurt), then all these are the main symptoms of the hypertensive crisis. In addition, there are sharp pressure jumps, nausea, vomiting, noise in the ears, whiskey pulsating and heart aches.

3 If symptoms are concentrated on the left

Headache may occur on any part of the head. This can be the occipital region, forehead, whiskey, areas around the eyes. By the type of manifestations, the pain sensations are acute, aching, a burning sensation or a ripple may appear.

As a separate section, it is necessary to distinguish a headache in the left part of the head and face. Many may think that this is very strange, when only a part hurts, but, alas, it is not uncommon. As mentioned earlier, the main cause of pain in the left side of the head is a migraine. It is capable of capturing areas around the eyes, the temporal region, the left side of the forehead or jaw. For example, even before the onset of migraine, a person can observe certain symptoms: the eye gives out various flashes, spots, flickering dots or stripes appear. All this is popularly called "darkening of the eyes."When migraine often begins to ache on the head or face of the skin, it swells and becomes particularly sensitive. And after a migraine attack a person feels sleepy, sluggish and quickly tired.

Another reason why the left side of the head hurts is a diagnosis like osteochondrosis. In this case, calcium salts are deposited in the vertebrae, which begin to pinch the cervical arteries, which are responsible for supplying the brain with blood. From this, nutrients cease to flow in sufficient quantities, causing spasms and vasodilation. Also in the brain there is a lack of oxygen, which causes dizziness. In this case, the pains become aching and drawing. Distortion and distribution of intracranial pressure. It can constantly rise and fall, which manifests itself as a ripple in the temples, inside the head or pain in the eye area.

There are people who suffer from meteosensitivity. It can be sharp spasms, pressing sensations or pains in the left temple, the area near the ear, frontal or occipital part. Such symptoms appear several hours before precipitation, a sharp warming or cold snap. The change in weather conditions affects the arterial and intracranial pressure in some people. In addition to the above symptoms may be added to breaking in the teeth or jaw, pain at certain points around the eyes, in the cervical spine.

When an infection occurs in the body, a person can complain of symptoms such as a drilling, pulling pain in the left side of the skull and face. The cause of this condition can be caries, which has penetrated to the nerve endings of the teeth, a chill ear, from which sensations are transmitted to the nape or the temple. Frozen or injured muscles are often inflamed and painful in all movements or touching the face, turning the neck or head.

4 First aid

Often, you can easily alleviate your condition with pain and migraines in the following ways:

• by taking an anesthetic drug, for example antispasmodics;
• by massaging the head, neck, back, shoulders;
• attaching a cool compress to the face or sores;
• breathing fresh air;
• having a good rest;
• taking a warm or hot shower, there are cases where even ordinary washing helps;
• after aromatherapy, breathing in essential oils;
• putting orange or lemon crusts next to you or white cabbage leaves;
• if you know for sure that the pain in the head is caused by reduced pressure, then have a cup of sweet tea or coffee.

But these tips will help only with minor pain that you have on a regular basis, and the diagnosis has long been established. Otherwise, by such popular methods, you can only hurt yourself. For example, not every migraine can pass after taking an anesthetic. Most likely, you can not do without a visit to the neurologist.

The neurologist will be able to properly prescribe special drugs that will help normalize the metabolism, lead to tonus vessels in the brain.

The physician is able to determine whether pain is actually the result of minor disorders or inflammations, or it is symptoms of a tumor, head injury, stroke. A more detailed picture will show the examination using ultrasound or MRI.