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Re: Chronic Headaches
From: Teresa (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:42:48 -0600 (CST)
Heya! Thanks so much for all your replies. I'm not online very much
over the holidays, but I wanted to respond, in general. I know of a few
food triggers, such as chocolate. I can't eat chocolate at all without
being in tons of pain. Right now, eating lots of carbs is the only way
to not get very sick...my head throbs and I get extremely nauseous, even
if I'm full from non-carb food. And if I go too long, I eventually
throw up. This has been a recent thing...from only a few months ago.
The headaches, as I said before, have been around for years. I very
rarely take medicine of any kind (except birth control pills, and i've
been on and off them with no change in my headaches). I very rarely
take tylenol, etc, and when I do, it is usually for some other
ailment--it does no good for my headaches. Long ago, OTC meds would
work, but then I'd build up a tolerance to them. Now I can take 1500mg
of Tylenol at any given time and it won't affect my headache (unless i
bump my head or something, then it helps that added pain). The only
thing I take is a muscle relaxer that helps me sleep when the pain gets
unbearable. It usually takes me about 6 months or so to go through 30
pills, though.
I was supposed to go to the dr on the 26th. I was about 20 minutes away
from the drs office when my car broke down, 2 hrs from home. I had to
reschedule for 1/8/02. HOPEFULLY nothing will go wrong there!
Thanks again for all your concern!
At Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Joanne wrote:
>
>Hi Teresa, well I suffer from migraines a lot, I know you said they
>weren't exactly migraines, but my nuerologist also told me that if I'm
>constantly taking say tylenol(on a daily basis to keep the pain to a
>dull roar) then one would be getting an analgesic(spelling) headache.
>You get a headache because you don't take the tylenol, it's strange I
>know, but i went one week and took nothing no matter how bad it got and
>then only took my specific migraine pain killer(fiorset). I'm at the
>moment doing well. Not to say I don't have days on end that I have a
>headaches, but it's much less. Just thought I would throw that out
>there. You didn't mention how often you take meds for the headaches, so
>I just wanted to tell you what I was told. good luck.take care. Joanne
>At Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Teresa R. wrote:
>>
>>For the past 4 yrs, I've had a headache literally constantly. I may
>>have a few hours a month with little pain...it is pretty bad. I'm 22
>>yrs old, and the headaches started while I was in high school, and have
>>greatly affected school and work since then. Before, I'd had headaches
>>often, but for years, now, I've suffered constantly. In can make you
>>feel pretty darn insane! Has anyone else experienced such headaches?
>>
>>I've been to many different doctors. I've spent many many months at 2
>>different chiropractors, both sure they would cure me, neither coming
>>close. Best I could get out of the 3 neurologists I've been to is that
>>I have "Chronic Headaches"...which was rather infuriating, since
>>anything that goes on for such a long amount of time is
>>chronic...doesn't help me at all. The only medicine that helps is I can
>>take a (strong) muscle relaxer, or sometimes very strong pain
>>relievers....I think it is just really anything that will put me to
>>sleep. When I wake, I'm either hurting, or still totally numb from the
>>pills, and start hurting as soon as I'm fully alert again. But at least
>>I get to sleep some that way.
>>
>>I've read that headaches can be a side effect of having PCOS, not just
>>from the drugs, but from the disease itself, however, there isn't a
>>whole lot mentioned about it, and so I was wondering if any of you had
>>personal experience. They say it isn't exactly a migraine, it isn't
>>sinus, it isn't clusters....I figured stress for a long while, but my
>>headaches aren't really any better during periods of low stress. Anyone
>>have any insight?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Teresa
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