Why do I get recurring headaches that affect my sleep, and how can I tell this apart from a tension headache or migraine?

Headaches can be pretty painful and can really affect your husband’s quality of life! Before we assume though that sinus problems are causing his headaches, we would usually take a detailed history to find out the location and pattern of the headaches as well as other associated symptoms like blocked or runny nose, colour of his nasal discharge, any nausea or vomiting, vision problems. For example, headaches which are more likely to be due to sinus problems may occur over the forehead, between the eyes, over the cheeks.

Thank you for getting in touch to share your headaches. Headache is extremely common. It will be difficult to diagnose anything without seeing you in person. Headache is one of those conditions where there is no specific "Test" that can 100% diagnose your headache. Doctors come to a reasonable best guess of your condition based on what you describe your headache to sound like and based on the doctor's experience of the "headache story" of all the other headache patients that the doctor has seen.