Headache when training
I just started having these massive headaches. Last week I was just warming up, doing a little of jump rope and Bang, I get this pain on the left side of my head around my temple and it runs to part of my ear. I slowed down and just walked in the treadmill. Saturday I am back to the gym and as I was doing a dead lift, I got it again. Its almost immediately once I start weight lifting, this time I swear I felt something pop around the temple area in my head. I was not able to work hard through the rest of my work out and found myself just rubbing and sitting down through most of my work out. I took Sunday off and I went in again yesterday when I go and get the same thing. I was just starting to do lat pull downs.
I am very flustered with this. I want to go in and work hard and this is driving me insane. I still feel pressure today and a slight headache.
Is this a common thing?
February 19, 2008 at 8:15 am
No, see your physician immediately, could be the sign of something else. Just to be safe.
February 19, 2008 at 8:44 am
I had the same problem last August it ended up being a strained muscle in my neck. Good luck.
February 19, 2008 at 8:48 am
I hope that is the case, did you see a chiropracter
February 19, 2008 at 9:03 am
It is a tight muscle. Levator Scapulae to be exact. Most will tell you that it is upper traps. I am a physical therapist, and have had the same thing happen to me on one occasion the pain was so bad I thought I was going to pass out. What we usually ask people to do is stretch this muscle by bending your head forward and pointing your nose to your nipple. You said the pain was on the left, then take your nose to your right with forward head flexion. DO NOT OVER STRETCH OR PULL DOWN HARD!!!! Esay pressure. Take one excedrin tension headache 30 min. before you work out for a few days. It will subside but you must stretch and relax whatever has caused this muscle to shorten.
February 19, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I ended up letting it get bad enough where i ment the the ER. they put me on some strong meds and readjusted my neck a little. It took about 4 days to get back to normal after that.
February 19, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Just got back from the chiropractor, I think i feel better and part of me wants to go to the gym and try to lift again to see if it happens. If it does, I may just have to stick with cardio for a few weeks to see how that goes.
Thanks…
she said my lower neck was not aligned and my hips….
February 21, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I might have felt something similar, but I felt it in four spots around the base of my skull. Sure enough there are four major arteries that feed the brain. It started while I was on the leg press. Makes sense since my feet were above my head on that machine, but I pushed a little to hard and I felt almost a pop (four of ‘em).
I thought I’d just lay off the workout because I couldn’t do a decent set. But when I a good yawn and a stretch in the morning was enough pressure to make me wince I went to the dock. We’ll see what the lab brings but I found this link interesting.
http://headachedrugs.com/archives/exercise_induced.html
Good Luck!
I’ll be watching this blog.
February 22, 2008 at 10:07 am
I did legs on Wednesday and I was fine but yesterday when doing upper body It felt like it wanted to come back, I just slowed down, kept my head elevated and made an effort to make sure my breathing was good. That seemed to helped. I do think i may be getting sick or sinus since I seem to start getting more conjested as I start working out. I am not congested and as soon as I start working out, my nose gets runny and crap.
Let me know what the doc says..