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What Causes A Headache Behind Your Eyes?
The most common problem causing pain, or what some people describe as a “headache behind the eyes” is related to vision. The lens of the eye may not able to focus light correctly on the retina. When this happens, your brain compensates by tightening muscles around the eyes. After a while, these muscles become strained, triggering discomfort.
There may be a number of other causes for pain behind the eyes, which can last a few minutes, a few hours, or even a few days. To relieve the pain, you first have to identify its cause.
Here are the most common probabilities.
Chronic Headaches
Pain behind the eyes can also be part of a headache that affects a larger part of your head. There are several different categories of headaches that may be factors.
So called “cluster” headaches can be the most maddening and debilitating of all. Cluster headaches occur in cyclical patterns or cluster periods. A cluster headache can be bad enough at night to wake you up — or keep you up — with intense pain. The excruciating pain of cluster headaches often occurs behind or around one eye, but may radiate to other areas of your face, head, and neck.
Migraines are another type of headache that cause pain behind your eyes. Migraines can be so severe they cause a visual aura: you see flashes of light, zigzagging patterns, or even blind spots.
Other reasons could include the following.
Cancer
Of course, tumors near the brain are sometimes a factor.
Sinusitis
Sinusitis and other infections and conditions that affect the respiratory system can cause a headache behind the eyes.
Tension
Tension, stress, anxiety, fatigue, and lack of sleep can all contribute to pain behind your eyes.
Graves’ Disease
Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder that causes hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid. Pain behind the eyes is a symptom.
Optic Neuritis
Optic neuritis (ON) is due to the inflammation of the optic nerve, usually caused by an infection or nerve disease.
Finally, sometimes, pain behind the eyes results from malfunctioning blood vessels in your brain. These are caused by chemical changes in brain hormones.
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