About a month ago I started getting frequent and intensely painful headaches on the right side of my head. I ended up going to the ER a few weeks ago to get a CT, which turned up nothing. I had MRIs today and they didn’t turn up anything that would be causing the headaches either. Now what?
Brad Barrish @jemostrom nothing to suggest that it’s muscle pain. The MRIs didn’t show anything that would suggest nerve pain and it doesn’t really feel like that. At this point I’m leaning toward migraine, but no idea why I started getting them so frequently.
Jan Erik Moström Yeah these things are difficult. And migraine is kind of strange also, I don’t get migraine often, must have been several years ago now, but I get tunnel vision. I can see that something is starting to happen (difficult to describe), then within 10-20 minutes my field of view becomes narrow and I can’t directly look at something (it’s just becomes invisible), but I only have to wait for 30-45 minutes and it’s gone. No headache at all.
Brad Barrish @jemostrom yep, that’s an ocular migraine. They’re the only kind I used to get until these started. If I didn’t take something like Excedrine, I would get extremely painful headaches and I would have a sort of hangover headache the next day. Thankfully I don’t get them often and never have. How often do you get yours?
Jan Erik Moström I’m very lucky so it rarely happens. There was one period in my life where it happened 5-6 times per year. Now it’s probably 1-2 times each 5 years. So I’m not complaining.