Self-medicating for a severe headache may seem like an easy solution, but it can pose significant risks to your health. Here, we explain further.

Both children and adults may experience occasional headaches, which are characterized by moderate pain lasting a few hours. Most of the time, these headaches are not a cause for concern and are caused by less severe conditions,  such as a mild head injury, insufficient sleep or food intake, and high levels of stress or anxiety.

Headaches cause discomfort in the head, scalp or neck. They can be classified into two main groups: primary headaches, which originate from hyperactivity or dysfunction of pain-sensitive structures in the head, including tension headaches, migraine and cluster headaches.

Although health professionals order pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments to control depression, in some cases patients do not respond as expected to such recommendations. To treat these situations there is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a treatment that directly reaches the brain through magnetic pulses emitted by high-tech devices.