Lucille usually takes the bus to work in Aurora. If she were to drive, her daily roundtrip commute would be 8 miles. Today she needs to use her car since she is participating in a conference at an offsite location, 12 miles from her house.
Stress can trigger both migraine and tension-type headache. Events like getting married, moving to a new home, or having a baby can cause stress. But studies show that everyday stressesânot major life changesâcause most headaches.
Because both the headaches and the stresses are infrequent, itâs relatively easy to see the connection. For people with daily or near-daily headache, itâs often much harder to be aware of stress, because their stress may be nearly constant. The biggest stress in chronic headache is having chronic headache.