Roughly nine in ten self-described sinus headaches are migraine. Why migraine produces genuine sinus symptoms.
If you've ever had facial pressure, a stuffy nose, and a pounding headache and assumed it was "just sinuses," you're in good company—and you're very likely wrong. Research on this exact question has found that when people with recurring "sinus headaches" were carefully evaluated against real diagnostic criteria, roughly 88-90% of them actually had migraine,…