Social Security Benefits for Chronic Headache

Chronic Headache or Chronic Daily Headache Syndrome can afflict people with intense and disabling headaches that can last for days, weeks, and even months at a time. It is common for people that suffer from CDH to experience severe and seemingly endless headaches for half a month or more. This type of headache disorder can be immobilizing and crippling making people sensitive to light and sound. People that are afflicted with this malady tend to become antisocial and introverted due to the extreme pain and sensitivity it causes. CDH makes it hard for a sufferer to maintain family relationships and/or employment. Sufferers live in constant fear of the next attack.

Are you afflicted with CDH and would like information on the Social Security Benefits for Chronic Headache victims? Contact the New Jersey Social Security Disability Attorneys at the law office of Kazmierczak & Kazmierczak today to learn more!

Chronic headache disorders are some of the most common disorders that affect the nervous system. Doctors have divided chronic headaches into two categories, primary and secondary headache disorders. CDH can be an extremely painful and at times a paralyzing primary headache disorder. Some chronic headaches are believed to be genetically hereditary. CDH causes the brain to release inflammatory, pain-generating chemicals that affect the nerves and blood vessels around the head. Doctors are baffled by this reaction and do not understand the process that starts the production of these chemicals or why they stop producing them.

Chronic Daily Headache Syndrome can also occur as a secondary headache disorder to a significant number of disease or other medical conditions. Secondary CDH’s include headaches cased by cervical spine disorders, headaches associated with a trauma, or headaches as a symptom of other diseases. Medical conditions that can cause CDH as a secondary condition include arthritis, intracranial infection, brain tumors, subarachnoid hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformation, giant cell arteritis, subdural hematoma, intracranial hypertension, or neoplasm.

Some of the most commonly recognized chronic daily headache disorders include:

SUNCT
Chronic Migraine
Hemicrania Continua
Chronic Cluster Headache
Chronic Tension Headache
Daily Persistent Headache
Tension-Type Headache or TTH
Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania

Some chemicals or the lack of them can also induce chronic headaches such as carbon monoxide, ergotamine, triptan, analgesics, medications, and alcohol. Trauma or infections to the cranium, neck, ears, sinuses, teeth, mouth, nose, or eyes can also produce CDH.