{"id":41,"date":"2026-08-23T11:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/2026\/08\/23\/when-a-headache-needs-a-neurologist\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:17:04","slug":"when-a-headache-needs-a-neurologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/2026\/08\/23\/when-a-headache-needs-a-neurologist\/","title":{"rendered":"When a headache needs a neurologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Most headaches settle on their own. A small number are telling you something else, and the difference is usually in the pattern rather than the pain.<\/p><h3 class=\"mt-4 mb-3\">The pattern matters more than the severity<\/h3><p>A headache that arrives suddenly and reaches its worst inside a minute, one that wakes you from sleep, or one that changes character after years of being the same, is worth an appointment. So is a headache with new weakness, double vision, or a fever and a stiff neck.<\/p><h3 class=\"mt-4 mb-3\">What we do at the first appointment<\/h3><p>We take a history, examine your eyes and your nervous system, and check your blood pressure. Imaging is not automatic: a scan answers a specific question, and we would rather ask the right one than photograph everything.<\/p><h3 class=\"mt-4 mb-3\">Living with migraine<\/h3><p>For migraine the work is preventive. A headache diary for six weeks usually shows the triggers more clearly than any test, and it tells us whether a preventive medication is worth trying.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most headaches settle on their own. A small number are telling you something else, and the difference is usually in the pattern rather than the pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neurology","tag-headache","tag-migraine","tag-referrals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}