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Migraine Headaches?? When to know it's serious??

I NEVER get headaches. Last week I was sick and severely dehydrated and that's when the headaches started. I...

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nutritional supplements?

Is anyone aware of any nutritional supplements, or anything out there to take to help prevent the attack of a...

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Vision Changes with Migranes

I apologize if this isnt typed just right. I am having vision changes with my last two migranes. The...

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Eyes wet during sinus pain

I had been experiencing this for past 2 years that whenever I feel a sinus headache my eyes tears. Amazingly,...

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Migraines-behind eye

Hi! I've been having migraines for several years now and feel like I've tried everything. I've changed birth...

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Vestibular migraines?

For months I have been experiencing almost daily episodes of extreme dizziness/vertigo. I went to John...

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Weight gain

My doctor put me on Amitriptyline for depression, gradually going up to 200 Mg at bed time over 21/2 months...

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Chronic Tension Headaches?

I am pretty sure that I have CTH; I have headaches definitely more than 15 days a month, always have. It...

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Help I am new to this Migrane stuff

My migraines started happening around 5 months ago after a 5 day hospitalizing head pressure and high fever....

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Adderall and Headaches

I need some help. My husband has Adult ADD. He has been on Adderall 20 mg for about two years now. Since Oct...

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p with mystery condition?

I'm a 28-year old male and for over a year I have had a chronic feeling that is best described as similar to...

Posted by An_249515

I'm a 28-year old male and for over a year I have had a chronic feeling that is best described as similar to the onset of a flu (without sneezing, aches, chills etc.) and a 'hung-over' like feeling. This feeling is largely confined to my head. I have periods of weeks where it's worse and then weeks where it's better but it's basically there to some degree almost every day. I have no other symptoms (no physical symptoms, no abnormalities in the blood, CT/MRI all fine, no triggers that make it worse or better, no impact on mental or physical abilities other than that it just requires more effort). Other than the usual fluctuations between better and worse weeks, it hasn't gotten meaningfully worse or better since the onset (which was sudden, I just thought I caught a normal flu). It gets worse when going to sleep and when waking up. It has a tendency to get better on weekends or holidays. It isn't bad enough to stop me from working or doing anything else but it has clearly had a big impact on my life and the cluelessness of the medical community has left me exasperated.
I have had done all the possible tests that one could do with several doctors and none of them have been able to find anything and all of them (whether they are generalists, CFS or lyme or infectious disease specialists) said they've never seen anything like this and can't help me. No serious doctor has suggested that it's psychological and a psychological cause simply doesn't seem likely to me.

I've also done a lot of research myself and the things that come closest are:
-CFS/ME: but I almost never feel fatigued or tired so that basically excludes it (I've also seen several CFS specialists who all say that my symptom(s) doesn't fit)
- Lyme: all tests negative and I don't have any of the other symptoms. Antibiotics showed no effect (not even the 'herxing' that many Lymies seem to get).
- Yeast infection: I've changed my diet to very low carbs for over 6 months and that hasn't changed anything (no herxing here either).
- Some kind of a latent viral infection that could have been reactivated (blood tests show I had EBV and HHV6 in the past but then again most of the population have had those).

I've been on all kinds of supplements (mainly multivitamins and mitochondrial support such as CoQ10, NADH) which haven't made a major difference either.

I've tried several antibiotics and antivirals (both conventional and alternative medicine) which haven't made a difference either.

I've changed my lifestyle, moved flats and seen whether it changes when I travel. All of these have had no impact on my symptoms.

If anyone has any clues or has ever been through something similar, I would very much appreciate your help!

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Can't tollerate this pain level

PLEASE HELP! I'm in severe migraine pain 1 1/2 - 2 weeks out of the month. Below is a list of things I...

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Headaches and Brain Surgery

I have had headaches migraine and tension ones since I was a teen and now I am 60 yrs. I am having...

Posted by meaningfulc1952

I have had headaches migraine and tension ones since I was a teen and now I am 60 yrs. I am having botox treatments, but do not get that much relief even with them. Have a pm dr and neurologist too.
This is about my 42yr. old daughter and what happened to her. Abt Sept. this yr. my daughter started having severe, and shocking headaches. After exhausting all types of MRI's, ct scans, etc. and seeing a neurologist there was no clear diagnosis as to what was causing her headaches. Very recently she was referred to a neurosurgeon in TX and we all went to that appt. last week. The new dr. looked at these tests on the computer and said there is a blockage on one side where this vein does not get adequate blood supply. In fact he said that it looked like it was not open at all. At that appt. just last week, he scheduled her for brain surgery for this week on 12-12-12 in the Med Center in Houston. This dr. is the head of the neurosurgery and only sees patients once a week. He is also a professor on the other days.
After the surgery was done he told us that the vein on the one side of her brain was so pinched closed that she would have died if it had not been caught so soon. In other words, a blood clot would kill her if he had not found the REAL problem. We were all shocked and scared.
I have to say that my daughter just came home after 3 days in the hospital. Amazing!
The bottom line to all of you that get headaches is if you get a headache that is the most horrific and you never had them please go to the ER and keep pursuing whatever is causing your headaches. Originally, the first 2 drs. thought that she had migraines and or tension headaches and that was not the cause at all.
I hope that his will be of some help to you all that are just getting headaches and have not been fully diagnosed by your own drs.

As for my headaches they are migraines and tension ones and they drive me crazy. I take 2 different muscle relaxers and lexapro, sumatriptan, and have pain mgt. dr. that prescribes methadone a total of 80 millagrams in one day. My headaches started when I was a teen, but later in my 20's, I was told that I had TMJ and the oral surgeons that I saw all told me that I needed to have total jaw joint replacement. After 6 major jaw surgeries I am left in chronic pain. The last jaw surgery was in 1995 in Dallas. That surgery lasted 13 hrs. long. When I looked at my face I looked like someone beat the tar out of my face. It was black and blue and very swollen. All that I can say in my case is that I was told originally that if I had jaw surgery my headaches would go away. Well the rest is history. They just got worse.

If any of you have the most severe, horrific headache and never had one before like that please go to the ER and then follow up with the appropiate drs.. I can assure you in my daughter's case it saved her life. That is what her surgeon told her.

Take Care,
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bad headache from sneezing or coughing

Hi im 27 and i do not get headaches very often at all. the other day i coughed and got a really bad pain in...

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Head pressure, eye floaters, light sensitivity. (I...

Hello everyone, I have an undiagnosed condition which started three years ago, in December 2009 . My family...

Posted by Eraphim

Hello everyone,

I have an undiagnosed condition which started three years ago, in December 2009. My family doctor doesn't take me seriously, so I am switching to another doctor soon. I'm male, 26 years old, non-smoker & non-drinker. Blood pressure on average 130/80, pulse rate around 70. I am 6 foot 1 tall, and weigh around 214 pounds (97 kg).

My symptoms:

- Head pressure (especially around the temples)
- Feeling my heartbeat pounding in my head (i don't hear it, but i definitely feel it)
- Massive eye floaters in both eyes (always present)
- Light sensitivity (always present)
- Slight blurry vision from time to time (depending on the severity of the "head pressure")
- Eye pain (also depending on the severity of the "head pressure")

What makes it worse:

- When I eat something very salty
- When I am very nervous, or very angry

What makes it better:

- When I press on my temples
- When I tie a piece of cloth around my head
- Diazepam 5mg

Worth mentioning:

- No fatigue (i have a lot of strength & energy)
- No appetite loss
- No sleep problems

A detailed history of my condition:

My problem began in December 2009 as just a strange feeling in my head. I started to literally feel my pulse pounding inside my head. This was accompanied by a feeling of pressure in the head, especially around the temples and around the eyes. It felt like extremely high blood pressure, but only in the head. I ignored all of this, thinking it's something that will go away quickly, but I was wrong.

After a couple of months, in the spring of 2010, the head pressure decreased somewhat, but then I began to have eye problems. There was a dull tension-type pain, first in my right eye, then in my left eye. This type of eye pain is very difficult to describe: A strong tension/pressure type of pain, which feels exactly like the pressure in the entire head. This lasted for several days, and then comes the worst part: massive eye floaters in both eyes, accompanied with light sensitivity. The eye pain went away, but the floaters & light sensitivity remained, as well as the head pressure. The floaters & light sensitivity are always present, 24/7, so it's definitely not a migraine.

The problem "stablized" in the summer of 2010, and remained very stable or "tolerable" I should say. Head pressure reduced by more than 50%, no eye pain, and only 5 or 6 floaters. Then in October 2012, for unexplained reasons, the whole thing came back with a punch. The pulse pounding in the head, the head pressure, and the eye pain all increased about threefold. Then a few days later, new eye floaters came along (more than 10 new floaters!). Now the whole thing is somewhat stable, but definitely not as good as it was before.

Why was it "ok" for more than two years, and then came back like this? The only thing I can think of is bodybuilding. In October 2012 I began to lift weights, mostly benchpress, and about a week after that, the problems began to intensify. This is the only thing I can think of that might have played a role.

Here are the exams I have had done in the past few months:

- Extensive blood work, including TSH test (thyroid function): all clear, except for somewhat high cholesterol (255)
- Abdominal ultrasound: completely normal
- Ophthalmoscopy with dilated pupils: no retinal tears, no holes, no damaged blood vessels
- VEP (Visual Evoked Potential) test: completely normal
- Carotid doppler ultrasound: completely normal (I really insisted on the carotid doppler ultrasound, because of the feeling of high blood pressure in the head.)

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post concussion syndrome/ migraines/headaches

I was diagnosed with pcs about 25 years ago and suffer from bad headaches and migraines! I need relief...

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post concussion syndrome/ migraines/headaches

I was diagnosed with pcs about 25 years ago and suffer from bad headaches and migraines! I need relief...

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headache and sparking in eyes

my mother age 65 has a problem of continue headache and sparking seen in eyes

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migraines / post concussion syndrome

I have been suffering from migraines and post concussion syndrome. I am in recovery and do not take narcotics....

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Abnormal Brain MRI

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preteen daughter with migraines

Help my daughter is only 12 soon be 13 in less than 2 weeks and has suffered form migraines for ove r2 years...

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headache/migrane

I woke up this morning the whole right side of my head starting from above my eye is throbbing. Does anyone...

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Migraine's because of weather

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Help! Constant Daily Headache...

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Verapamil?

Hi everyone, I've been suffering from migraines for about 18 years, and after being given various abortive...

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thunderclap migranes

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