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What Causes Persistent Headache With Pain Behind The Eyes?

i fell off a bar stool on friday night/saturday morning and hit my head pretty bad there was a lot of blood. i went to hospital on sunday and they did an xray and said there was no breaks but i dont know if they checked to see if there was any internal damage, i have a very bad headache all day long, very bad pain behind both my eyes and i can not stand to be in the light for too long as it makes the pain worse and i need to lie down a lot. what could this be?
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Hello dear,
Thanks for being on healthcaremagic.com.If you would have presented to me as an outpatient,I would have made the following clinical explanation-
Apparently you had an injury which though was not associated with any loss or clouding of consciousness,but still,it was not a mild one as it was left with a bleeding head.Severe headache since then with retro-orbital pain along a probable photophobia(headache increases on exposure to light) that you are having,needs to be evaluated by a brain imaging like computerised tomographic(CT) scan and evaluated by an ophthalmologist for papilledema or raised intracranial pressure.It is always crucial in a case of head injury to exclude any secondary cause of headache,especially if the head injury is not a clinically mild one.I hope it helps.
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What Causes Persistent Headache With Pain Behind The Eyes?

Hello dear, Thanks for being on healthcaremagic.com.If you would have presented to me as an outpatient,I would have made the following clinical explanation- Apparently you had an injury which though was not associated with any loss or clouding of consciousness,but still,it was not a mild one as it was left with a bleeding head.Severe headache since then with retro-orbital pain along a probable photophobia(headache increases on exposure to light) that you are having,needs to be evaluated by a brain imaging like computerised tomographic(CT) scan and evaluated by an ophthalmologist for papilledema or raised intracranial pressure.It is always crucial in a case of head injury to exclude any secondary cause of headache,especially if the head injury is not a clinically mild one.I hope it helps.