Suggest Treatment For Nausea,cough And Severe Headaches

Brief Answer:
If this headache unlike any other then, maybe ER.

Detailed Answer:
Good evening. My name is Dr. Saghafi. I am a neurologist from the XXXXXXX OH area and would like to give the following opinion on your condition. First off, I hope you are feeling better and I'm assuming that if you are reading this that you are probably still at home which means you've now have had the headache for at least 2 hrs. and likely are improving.

Had you "popped" a blood vessel in the brain then, it is almost certain that you would've developed much more violent symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and a most severe pain in terms of any headache pain you've ever felt in your life.

Some people have such intense pain from an aneurysmal burst within the brain that they immediately fall unconscious. None of this seems to have happened if I'm accurate in my interpretation of your case as you've described.

The type of throbbing headache you have is consistent with a migraine type and I believe that in the absence of violent and dramatic symptoms mentioned above that your headache is merely the triggering of a migraine headache based upon either the degree of nausea you felt or from the food itself which may have contained toxins of some sort (or possibly allergens) which triggered centers in your brain responsible for producing such attacks.

Under these circumstances I would not visit an ER necessarily. However, if this headache is unlike any other you've ever experienced and you are feeling mentally lethargic, with nausea/vomiting, or symptoms of weakness, numbness, or tingling in the face, arm, or leg then, I would recommend visiting a local ER as this needs to be examined and monitored before releasing you back home.

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I hope you get well soon!

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