Doctor Solomon says that. the patient places capsaicin in his or her nose when the headache starts. The treatment causes some brief pain. However, the cluster headaches do stop, and capsaicin does not cause the possibly harmful side effects of other treatments.
A tension headache is not so severe as a migraine headache or as cluster headaches. Still, tension headaches interfere with the lives of many Americans especially women. A study says women are fifteen percent more likely to get tension headaches than men.