Headache when fasting

[Husnaa]

What can one do because you cannot take medicine? Sleep it off?

[mercyofAllah]

Take more water during sehri and iftar.
Also be keen in staying away from sins bcos sins makes fasting difficult. Something I heard in lecture about fasting by Maulana Abdus Sattar (DB):

Once it was mentioned to the Prophet ﷺ about two women who found difficulty in fasting. The Prophet ﷺ called those women and asked them to vomit in separate bowls when fresh meat and blood was found in the vomit of those women. The Prophet ﷺ said that these women did backbiting. One of the adverse effects of sin while fasting is it becomes very difficult to fast. The one who fasts embracing taqwa won’t even feel like he is fasting. The fasting will trouble a person to the extent he dirties his eyes and tongue.
Allahu alam

[sudoku]

Making wudhu often helps, especially if you are living in warm temperature.

[alexi_c]

Asalaamulaikum

I suffer from cluster headaches, I've found that practicing to fast throughout the year has got me used to when Ramadan comes around - I appreciate this doesn't help much but the techniques I've employed are to slow down and relax a lot more and to have sabr.

And plenty of water at sehri and iftari is the trick - but not in big gulps! Regular and sustained!

May Allah swt make it easy for you and may you and all of the ummah obtain the most from Ramadan

[Dawud Israel]

Drink lots of water at suhur time. That helps a great deal.

[Sulaiman84]

Are there any other suggestions? I have an imamah tied tightly around my head to contract blood flow. I get cluster headaches, migraines, regular headaches...the whole 9 yards. I have one now and it has really put a monkey wrench in my schedule.

Any other tips would be appreciated.

[alexi_c]

Asalaamulaikum

Loosen the imamah...if anything try to keep your head cooler if you suffer from cluster headaches, (I've been a sufferer for the last 8/9 years now and me and my consultant at the hospital have worked out many tricks to reduce them!).

Generally keeping your head warm will worsen any headache, as will stress, tension, exercise and most actions which raises blood pressure and/or heart rate. Throughout your fast try to keep as relaxed as possible inshAllah and have sabr. And absolutely ensure you consume adequate amounts of water when you can.

Aside from that...you take it as a test from Allah swt and motor through!

[Zakariya_ibn_Yuqub]

Volume 7, Book 70, Number 544:

Narrated 'Aisha:

(the wife of the Prophet) Allah's Apostle said, "No calamity befalls a Muslim but that Allah expiates some of his sins because of it, even though it were the prick he receives from a thorn."

Volume 7, Book 70, Number 545:
Narrated Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri and Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "No fatigue, nor disease, nor sorrow, nor sadness, nor hurt, nor distress befalls a Muslim, even if it were the prick he receives from a thorn, but that Allah expiates some of his sins for that."

Maybe Allah is just removing some of your sins

[amirul0608]

drink plenty of water when you can, main cause of headaches is dehydration

[Ansari]

You put your right hand on your forehead and recite 3 times bismillah. And perhaps Al-Fatiha and ask Allah to heal you.