Headaches

Hi jade,

Welcome to the forum:) I get these same exact headaches every month. I was told it was fibro causing it, but it feels more like my sinuses. It affects the back of my head/neck area and gives me really bad headaches.

I have SEVERE "tension headaches" in that exact spot and have for several years. Those 2 spots at the base of my skull will swell up like GOLF balls. Then my whole upper shoulder area will seize up tight and I just HURT. Nothing can touch this pain when it happens. Seeing a chiropractor has helped a lot, but it still comes back a few times a week.

I have them everyday along with other types of headaches. I was also getting an occasional sharp pain that shoots through my head and I would black out for a few moments. Right side of face goes numb but luckily comes back. No medication has helped any of it exept sometimes Fioricet w/ codeine which is bad. I'm also have sinus issues and had to get nose spray plus meds for that. I wish I had an answer to help but haven't found one myself. I've taken tons of headache and pain pills for this but end up in bed suffering most of the time. I find a heating pad sometimes takes the edge off when they get so bad my head is between two pills, usually three days in a row. I hope you find relief. This is so hard.

Rapture55, I have a lot of sinus problems too. My doctor kept laughing it off and telling me to use a netti pot, for almost a year! I switched to someone else.

I have been also getting sharp pains across my facial nerves, as if I had trigeminal neuralgia or something. But one of my meds is actually also used for that kind of stuff. I don't know what is going on! I have found that the meds I am taking for lyme has made the shooting pain decrease in severity and frequency.

I USED to get the horrible pain at the bottom of skull 'the ball bits!' - also lots of vice type headaches and shoulder pain.  I had all of this plus severe unrelenting neck pain - all started following a tick bite.   I have been treated with antibiotics,  I am taking 'doxycycline' at present , I am getting a lot of leg pain.

I tried lots of things to help with the headaches/neck pain - chiro. accupunture, massage - etc;  I was eventually given six cortisone injections - three in each 'trapezium' muscle - this was done by a 'pain management' doctor, his diagnosis was that I have 'myofascia' pain.  I know the injections are probably not good to have considering my lyme disease BUT about one week after those injections - the pain started to subside.  That was approx. 2 years ago.  My neck is by no means perfect now but to have relief from the almost constant pain that I had is very welcome.

Before the injections - the top of my shoulders were very hard and knotted - stress would make it all a lot worse - I still get some small knots but I try not to hunch my shoulders 'up' when I am stressed - which is apparently a natural thing that most of us do when stressed.

Hope this might be of some help to others- Best Wishes

I get those headaches, too. Sinus pressure and pain under cheekbones, above eyes, and at temples, and pain where my head hooks to my heck. The neck pain, at times, radiates down my neck and across my shoulder. The netti pot helps a lot with the sinus congestion. Also, I don't have any medical sources to confirm this, but in my experience, taking the enzymes for biofilm seems to have helped with congestion, too. And, I am careful not to ingest much dairy (like almost none) because that can increase phlegm. Finally, I do not think I would be functioning without the help of an upper cervical atlas ortho chiropractor. A single adjustment can alleviate the head/neck pain. With regular visits, I am now going only twice a month and rarely have that pain anymore. I am sure the antibiotics and herbs are helping as well. I used to pretty much live on sudafed until my heart problems made it contraindicated. I'm glad to now be taking a more natural approach to resolving the sinus problems.

Rose

Hi Littlehutton,
Is it possible that you either clench or grind your teeth? If not during the hours you are awake, then is it possible that you are doing either one while asleep?