[k123]

Does anyone else get headaches everyday? I have had them for years and the Drs don't seem to pay much attention to it...

[avlady]

Do you drink alcholol at all? I know those were the times i would get migraines, the next day. some meds can give you them too, i'm speaking from experience.

[avlady]

stress can cause headaches. i used to get migraines and the ER would give me Imitrex which made me unfunctionable, i think it's over the counter now but wouldn't recommend it unless it's a real terrible headache

[avlady]

also lack of enough sleep could cause headaches and neck tention

[faerie_moon_x]

For a while I would get these extremely massive migranes. They were horrible. Pain meds wouldn't touch them. It felt like my head was both being torn off and punched in at the same time. Once I had one that lasted for 14 days. It was terrible.

Well... it turned out it was my teeth! I had 2 infected teeth. I had them removed and haven't had a migrane since.

[myddrin]

Hi K123 I go through periods of ongoing headaches lasting for days at a time. For me I can trace it to muscle tension in shoulders and neck and I have been searching youtube for basic yoga to release this. Also not drinking enough water can cause me headaches. It could, however, be a food allergy. My sister has migraines triggered by cheese and red grapes (so no red wine for her).

[Puffyprue]

Iam like almost everyday , have you try acupuncture? it helps me somehow with the pain

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by k123

Does anyone else get headaches everyday? I have had them for years and the Drs don't seem to pay much attention to it...

If GP's do not pay attention, you need to see a neurologist.

If the doctors so far have not paid attention to daily headaches, what have they been concerned with instead??

[Confusedinomicon]

You may have strained your neck. That can cause both things.

[manicminer]

Yes, I do. Most of it stems from being tense and worked up all the time. This causes the muscles to inflame causing pain. Tension in my neck and shoulders always leads to headaches.

When I get sleep deprived, which is often, I get an overall burning sensation through my entire cranium. I've just learned to live with it all...

[k123]

Thanks people! Yes I think it must be tension...the dr gave me migraine tablets but it's not a migraine. Prob stress..I always feel tense and nervous

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by k123

Thanks people! Yes I think it must be tension...the dr gave me migraine tablets but it's not a migraine. Prob stress..I always feel tense and nervous

Try Amitriptyline, which both relaxes muscles and prevents migraines (prevents, not aborts). So if you do not have migraines, it won't hurt you, and if you do, it might help, and the muscle relaxing action will help with your feeling tense. It is a very old cheap medicine, affordable without insurance.

[manicminer]

Good stretching and ice for inflammation/ heat for soreness and knots seem to be the best remedies. To get to the root cause, relaxation is the key, though I know full well how hard that can be to achieve.

[spoiltmom]

I have tension headaches and headaches from my TMJ. Any chance you have TMJ or jaw joint problems?

[Hydrophobic1212]

I used to. I went to my doctor, and she told me I was the "poster child for tension headaches'. Mine were all stressed related. But, that's what it seems like everyone else is saying anyways... Ha, ha! Hopefully it gets better soon. <3

Headaches very rarely now. Muscle tension and shoulders so tight you can bounce something off of them? All the time. Have never been able to relax enough that they back off. I have tried accupuncture in the past and trigger point massage (painful but helpful). See if you can take a hot shower and get some good sleep...

[cocoabeans]

If it isn't a headache, it's muscle aches and my whole body hurts. Doctors don't seem to care about physical symptoms when they can easily call you crazy. Sure, I'm depressed and when I'm not depressed pain is rare even migraines are less often but, I wonder if maybe its the pain depressing me rather than the depression causing pain.

Oh well, I've got crazy written all over my skin thanks to some bad attempts at coping as a child. I don't think I will ever find an answer or a doctor who is willing to consider anything other than a mood disorder.

[bearsdanced]

mind body soul are fashioned as a whole dear,
stretch before bed and upon waking; start taking baths 3 times a week with epsum salts; discover 3-5 minute guided meditation and find your niche in that area...seriously, 3-5 min of clarity impacts a day of panic or not for me. i say this because I suffer from what the doctors like to call "terror" disorder; im twenty, im smart, im attractive, im in love....i dropped my entire life for 5 months to heal and im no where near close but feel like a million bux comparatively. I get headaches from overactive thoguhts (essentially overactive neurotransmitter production) and im unalligned as hell from sitting so tensely. im 20, im in so much pain always it sounds ridiculous to the common ear) <3 goodluck .

Try removing wheat from your diet for three or four weeks. If it's an unrecognized sensitivity to exorphins in wheat (which act on the opiate centers of the brain) you could be getting reactions from opiate receptors screaming for more wheat to anesthesize the brain centers that contain opiate receptors. It's a new finding; see Dr. David Williams book Wheat Belly, please.)

The pains you describe are readily recognizable in his analysis of patients he has seen who were not considered serious candidates for pain therapy by their general practitioners. Those folks recovered and consequently had relief very quickly once gluten was out of their systems.

(The exorphin is a break-down product of gluten metabolism and is turning out to be very harmful for humans in more ways than I can recall at the moment; but pain, headaches, etc., are very much part of exorphin toxic status in the brain.)

So many possibilities, huh?