Headache after rides

[Cowsham]

No, I would say ‘it could be’, in fact it could be one of many things.

Yes could be -- sorry my bad.

[MikeTr]

I have suffered from headache after running. My doctor recommended me to run in the evening, not in the morning. And it works! I think the reason is that in the evening you sweating less than in the evening, so your body not loosing so much water.

[Cyril Haearn]

In the summer one can go cycling in the evening gloaming, say 20oo in August
Getting up early enough to go out in the morning gloaming would be difficult for many

[Cowsham]

How much sleep are you getting ? If your exercising or working long hours a lot and not getting enough sleep you can get migraine headaches or worse.

I took a thing called a migraine aura -- sudden bright lights for 20min on one side ( my left ) of my vision, no headache at the time but a dreadful one the next day then it was a bit like having the flu for about 3 days after that. Thought I was taking a stroke or something.

I have never been the sort that takes headaches so the doc sent me for mri scans etc -- nothing wrong I'm glad to say -- doc says drink plenty but even when I did that the auras kept happening.

The reason I wasn't getting enough sleep was because I was spending every waking moment doing strenuous work involving climbing or (pumping iron) exercising. It was one of those times there's not enough hours in the day, I was stealing sleep hours from waking hours and had been doing that for a while.

As soon as I started paying attention to how much sleep and tried to take 7 -- 8 hours per night the problems went away -- that was 7 years ago . ( one or two bad nights sleep won't bother me much as long as I make it up another time ) just at the time I was taking things to the extreme end of what's humanly possible.

I came to the conclusion sleep is the most important thing to get right. I bought a book
called " Why We Sleep " and the one thing I took away from the book is that, if over thousands of millennia evolution / nature (call it whatever you like) couldn't remove the need for sleep considering it's when most animals ( except my wife ) are at their most vulnerable, it must be incredibly important to your health and wellbeing.

Been over doing it again though not the extremes of when I was in early 50's. Now that I'm in my early 60's I had another spate of visual auras about two weeks to a month apart. The only common factor apart from lack of sleep is the warm weather so I'm trying to keep hydrated and using electrolyte tablets to see if that helps.

[atoz]

I am more likely to get headaches in winter. My sinuses can be problematic.

I agree with what's been said though, best to have a word with your GP if in any doubt, we're not medical experts- certainly I am not.