The phrase "adding to the headache" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or action that exacerbates an existing problem or difficulty.
Example: "The unexpected delay in the project timeline is really adding to the headache for the entire team."
Alternatives: "compounding the issue" or "making things worse".
Privately, some officials say the timing was a way to avoid adding to the headache of what to do about the eight Christians already imprisoned since early August.
That would allow UK universities to pursue the government's targets on education exports, without adding to the headache of reducing net migration to below 100,000 a year.
But the FDP insists that reducing the burden on taxpayers was part of the deal they agreed when the parties formed their supposed "dream-team" after elections in September 2009.Now differences over the euro are adding to the headache.
Further adding to the headache that is the rental car experience, Avis will be adding WiFi services to all of its rental cars as an add-on service, starting next year.
Adding to the headache of traditional department-store retailers is the emergence of cheap faux fashion undergarments at mass-market stores like Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart.
Even the TV chef Emeril Lagasse, who was the target of an article by Mr. Anderson in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina that questioned why Mr. Lagasse had not yet visited the city that made him famous, is welcoming the reviews back — especially because rising fuel and food costs are adding to the headaches for a New Orleans restaurant owner.
Just to add to the headache some economists say that this figure doesn't really reflect the true size of a country's economy because it measures everything that's produced within the country's borders, no matter who owns the firm.
You want to pack as light as possible, since toting around a bunch of stuff you don't need will only add to the headache of a trip.
A new problem has been added to the headaches of a civilian government that is already having difficulty grappling with the general's legacy of human rights abuses.
The defeat for the Rebels (2-7, 0-6) added to the headaches of Houston Nutt, who is assured of a second consecutive losing season.
Indeed, the demonstration of its new Treo model, which is not scheduled to ship until October, only added to the headaches the company would have faced as the expectation of an improved product eroded sales of current models.
