Daily persistent one-sided headache

Hello Sirrus,

Do you generally suffer from chronic headaches? Do you take any medications daily? Do you drink coffee daily? Do you eat anything just before the headache starts?

If you don't generally suffer from chronic headaches I would push for that MRI sooner rather than later. If you do, I would consider rebound headaches, even though its one sided. Does anything make it better or go away.

A short time ago I kept getting a one sided migraine and it would start about 30 minutes after I got up. It turned out I was forgetting to take my beta blocker, which explained why it would go away at night.

I asked the questions about coffee and eating because I have also found foods to trigger headaches and know for me coffee is a bad one. I couldn't figure out why I had a headache each day and then gave up lattes. At first the withdrawl from coffee gave me a headache, now coffee gives me a headache. Its a catch 22. Yeast in muffins and chocolate also trigger migraines (one sided headaches for me). These are foods I sometimes eat at breakfast.

My opinion of the anxiety explanation is that its horsepucky. My experience is that if anxiety is going to give me a headache I have a restless sleep and wake up with a headache. It doesn't come 30 minutes after I wake up.

Oh and the last thing, how hot are your showers or baths. Hot showers, though I love them, trigger migraines for me, make the blood vessels expand. Do you have a hot shower and then get the headache?

Those are my thoughts, though nothing is based on a medical degree all on personal experience. Don't ever be afraid to push doctors or change doctors. Especially when it comes to head pain that can't be explained.

Good luck!

Congratulations! That's great!

If its getting worse I would get it checked sooner rather than later.

Thank you for your response Sara!

Its nice to know that someone else has similiar symptoms.

I plan to see a neurologist soon if this continue, but its good to hear its not terribly uncommon.

Thanks...

 

I have actually hit my head on two different occasions and had two minor contusions and not had any head trauma that would show on brain scans either CT or MRI...

That is the best reasoning that my doctor and I can come up with for most of my head pain other that good ole' "migraine disease"   and things such as new persistent daily headache etc.

There may not be that "one" solid reason that we are all looking for...it may be something that we just have to try to prevent and deal with the best we can.

Sara

 

Hi all,

       I am 25 and never had headaches before but since last December i got a persistent headache on my RHS and frontal,it`s like an elastic band round my head after i have a beer and relaxes to a constant pressure pain on the RHS FROM THEN ON. I have had this constant pain every day since december and am a fit young man. It doesn`t interfere with exercise but just won`t go. It`s hard to sleep at night and when i wake up in the morning it goes for about a half hour and it comes back again for the day.Alcohol aggevates it and i am off it now but not long and it still persists? it`s not anxiety as it goes for awhile in the morning and comes on again like a steady pressure to my RHS and frontal and maybe on my LHS also but not as much as RHS....It`s just mind boggling and really really annoying.

i really don`t know what to do about it,can any of you kind people help me?

thanking you.

 cahill

hi
Sirrus
your headaches do sound like mine which is relaxing for me but not meaning to offend ya like...knowing i`m not the only one with similar pain....hope your feeling better too eh like....does Guinness or alcohol make yours go away for the night after a few and then get worse in the morning......it`s hard to be a student with the whole not been able to drink and stuff...just crazy here in ireland....hope it`s improving..

Cahillpachino

i have pain in the exact same place. like you said -- its not unbearable but always constant. does yours feel tender to the touch by any chance?

paronoid girl . my headache is not tender to touch . ive had trouble focusing , had eye test , was ok . bright flourescent lights at work make this worse . i do long distance running this makes it better , must be endorphins . had alot of sinus problems in past , could be linked ?

sirrus . did you cure your headache

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mine lasted 6 weeks , then faded , till now , when theres almost nothing , sinusis can take months to clear up . try packing in chocolate caffiene alchohol

Paranoid girl,

I've been getting these one sided headache for about 4 months now. I've had every test possible done, including brain MRI and seing a neurologist. I was even seen by an infectuous disease specialist, since the headaches started once I got back from a 3 week trip to Europe. Anyway, they found nothing. So I am now resigned to trying to figure it out on my own. I kept telling the doctors about the tenderness I felt when I touched my head on the side of the headache. All the docs pretty much dismissed that symptom. You are the first person that I've heard with this same symptom (tender to the touch). Please post if you find anything that helps. I will do the same.