Chronic headache--won't go away.

I would recommend, first of all, trying something over the counter for allergies that doesn't make you tired, like Allegra or Claritin. Allergies or rabid this season, and can only worsen sinus issues and headaches. I'd also get Ashwaghanda. I love it. It is a great herb used for clarity and relieving brain fog. I'd do a google search for other herbs for headaches and look on Buhner's site. I also recommend seeing a REALLY GOOD naturopath, and have them test you for Candida. Candida is yeast overgrowth and common in Lyme patients, especially those of us who have been on antibiotics. It can cause so many symptoms. I think one issue with Lyme patients and other people who are ill, is they don't perceive their body as a whole. They talk about their headache, their liver, their back, their neuropathy, their fatigue, and that's very much needed. But every one thing in the body, affects everything else. You need to look at that one part that's afflict it and attempt to heal it, and perceive the whole body, and heal that as well. It could be something located in another area of your body that's causing these issues. Also, I always say, having healed most of my Lyme, Lyme healing is very slow, but very real! Also, meditate! I don't care if you start off with one minute a day. You'll increase, as time goes on. Research all the benefits and celebrities that meditate. You'll be astounded. It was integral in my healing process! I do it up to thirty minutes a day. Did that help?

teragram,

The headache you describe is a headache that i have had for years at a time and for more than 20 years off and on. I once had someone ask me how long i had had a headache and i said over a year. He said wow that's a long time to have headaches. i said no, not head aches, a headache. I had had the same headache for over a year. Day and night, never ceasing and never getting better.

My diagnosis is also Fibromyalgia and at the time it was tension headaches. Over time the pain did change and I felt it move from the two muscle attachments at the base of the skull down the back of the neck and into the network muscles in the shoulders. It also travels up the muscles over the skull to the top of my head.

I have found that sudafed with epinephrine is the only thing that helps. None of the other allergy meds help at all. Surprisingly, dramamine has helped with the nausea especially if I try it as soon as the nausea starts. This is something I just tried recently.

I would look up "referred pain map image". That helps so you can see where the pain may be originating from and helps at time if you use pressure to try to loosen the muscles.

I sometimes use a tennis ball against my chair. I place the tennis ball so that when I lean back the tennis ball places pressure on the muscle attachment at the base of the skull. It can be excrutiating at the time but does help the muscles release. It helps too if you take a man's sock, fill it with rice, tie a knot in the end and then heat it for 20-30 seconds in the microwave. If you use that as a heating pad, it fits well around the neck and alternating it with the tennis ball helps release the tight muscles. You can actually feel the tightness move down from the top of the head.

The tennis ball also works well in different areas in the back especially the hard to reach area between the spine and the shoulder blade.

Good luck,
Kim

Does anyone have any suggestions as to herbs I could take for this headache, and/or for brain inflammation?

Margaret