A thread for headaches

(Note: I am currently dealing with a headache, as well.)

Do you guys find than any pain reliever is better than any other? I swear I think those fucking things are sugar pills or something - they've always had ZERO effect on my tension headaches

They get so bad sometime, I can HEAR my temples pumping into the pillow - fft fft fft - there's no worse feeling in the world

i find that the only thing that works is to take a long, long nap.

It just went away today.

xpost kim-arguing w/ me about anything involving pills is a clear sign of insanity.

Worst of all, I'm getting zero sympathy from my workmates, they are all treating me with suspicion like I'm angling for a day off. What physical symptoms can I show them?

Why don't you go home?

You could get yr drink on, Ian.

it was gone when i woke up but by the time i left work today it was back and i think my eye is going to explode!

Does anyone else get these sort of not really headaches but just bad tension in their temples, brow, and what feels like behind your eyes.

I used to have these kind of often a few years ago, which led to me getting glasses (extremely light prescription, used for reading only), and in the last week they've been happening a lot when, say, watching tv for over an hour or something. I can tell my eyesight has changed, but only very slightly, and I really don't think that's what's causing this, but of course I can't be sure). Even though they're not painful, they're extremely annoying because it feels like my head is frozen and I can't concentrate or read or watch tv or stuff like that.

Any information would be much appreciated.

Also, serendipitously, when opening this thread to post this, while listening to a mix I'd never heard I skipped to middle to a song that just repeated "release all the tension, release all the pressure" over and over.

i have that kind of headache - and similar pain (or not even really pain, or ache; more just an awareness that some portion of your body exists, whereas it usually exists without alerting you) in my back - and generally attribute it to having a job and the job destroying my brain. quit your job?

I started getting headaches and head pressure about a month ago - I know the exact day because I have a receipt from my trip to the bike store. They've been going on too long and are significant because I'm not and have never been a headache person. So I'm going to a doctor after this semester is over.

Anyone get them? Identified any triggers? What manages the pain?

That last sentence should have been pre-fixed by "Cluster headaches".

i have been getting these weird dull headaches if i wear my glasses too long, which is strange, because i think i see more clearly out of glasses than contacts? but maybe the prescription is slightly off? it's odd. i'm good for a while, and then i just hit this moment of my brain going "ow! time to put in the contacts!" maybe it's just that i'm so used to wearing contacts, wearing glasses makes the eye work differently --> causes strain?

I have only recently and almost accidentally found out that my "your headache has elements of cluster and migraine headaches at the same time" that has also completely disappeared (finally! After almost twenty years!) by taking a beta blocker was probably
trigeminal neuralgia. (In short, my headache was like a claw behind and around my (most of the time) right eye pushing and pushing until it hurt enough that I sometimes hit my head against the wall to alleviate the other pain, slightly fuzzy vision during the headache, upper right teeth hurting and the feeling that I couldn't hear the highest frequencies as well as normal with my right ear during the headache. This on most Saturdays and the first day of any multiple-day holiday, but also randomly during the week, waking me up in the middle of the night)

I heard the term (trigeminal neuralgia) from my new dentist last week when she noticed I've had a lot of work done to my right upper teeth. I told her about the headaches and the accompanying tooth pains and she immediately nodded and said those words.

The moral: don't give up, some day you may find something that works for you and makes your headaches go away! (And if you're lucky you'll hear what you probably had from another unrelated doctor a year later) :-)

Just wanted to ask again - cluster headaches: Anyone get them? Identified any triggers? What manages the pain?

My eye keeps twitching bad

found out yesterday that i've officially gotten to the point where not drinking coffee in the morning gives me a headache

tho when i finally did have one the headache got worse? and there's still some lingering dull pain