“How long do headaches last after general anesthesia?”
After general anesthesia I got headaches. Is it normal? How long do headaches last after general anesthesia?
4 Answers
Headache comes in many forms (cluster, migraine, positional, etc.) and has many causes, but they are completely unrelated to general anesthesia. Unfortunately, many patients who receive anesthesia for surgery tend to blame anesthesia for a host of symptoms when in fact their symptoms reflect an undiagnosed problem that is totally unrelated to anesthesia.
Headaches are not a recognized complication of anesthesia
Patient should generally not have headache after general anesthesia unless the surgery itself has headache as side effects, like neurosurgery or spine surgery. In that case, the length of the headache would be related to the type of surgery mentioned.
Probably a couple days at most
