Exercise = Red Face = Headache!

Does anyone else have this problem? This has plagued me since I was a (relatively) normal-sized child. Whenever I exert myself (heart-rate over 125), my face gets red (sometimes BEET-RED or SCARLET, which alarms people), and even long after I've cooled down and my face has gone back to normal, I have a long-lasting headache. It can also happen when the weather is extremely warm (>90 degrees). Before the surgery, no problem - take 3 Motrin and it was gone within an hour. NOW...i try to ignore it and hope it goes away, but when you have a headache 10 hours AFTER your sweat-session that won't go away, it's difficult to ignore!<br> <br> It's embarrasing, but mostly worrisome to me, because it seems the only thing to take away the pain is ibuprofen (an anti-inflammatory medication). I'm wondering if my head is getting so heated that it's affecting my brain tissues. The fact that I can still have this headache so many hours after working out would point to that. <br> <br> Does anyone else have this problem? Have you found a solution? How did you work around it? I don't want this to eventually stop me from working out; I'm really enjoying my workouts at the gym, except for this.

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