kephalalgia

[rone]

I get headaches often, of all sorts: sinus headaches, tension headaches, hunger headaches, dehydration headaches, allergic headaches, throbbing headaches, even the rare full-blown migraine.  They occur on the temples, at the forehead, up top, behind the ears, or any combination.  They are sometimes photophobic, phonophobic, rarely both.  Sometimes i'll get a headache if i need to go take a dump.  I don't get caffeine withdrawal headaches anymore, now that i've cut back, but those were insidious.  I've had headaches for as long as i can remember, and Excedrin (or its generic analogue) has been my constant companion (Bufferin when i was a kid; Mom and Dad didn't want me on caffeine); as a result, i'm intimately acquainted with the anti-headache pressure points along the neck, face, and hands.  I hate headaches because they're, at best, distracting, and, at worst, utterly debilitating.  If i had a magical wish, i think i'd definintely banish my headaches.

Comments

Re: I have minor sinus pain RIGHT NOW

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

You're having a migraine. If you'd visited a neurologist instead of a surgeon, you probably wouldn't be having one right now ;)

I would still have

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

this chronic sinusitis, and frequent pharyngitis from postnasal drip, however.

I gave up on the ENT and the allergist, though, when they each sent me back to the other for treatment. I did finally make a breakthrough recently after Mucinex (time-release guaifenesin) went over the counter and Sino-Fresh (nasal rinse with cetylpyridinium) became available. Unfortunately, the first thing the newly exposed tissue did was to catch two colds in rapid succession, but even so I'm still much better than I was.

Re: I would still have

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

I can't comment on cetylpyridinium, but guaifenesin is an excellent migraine abortive for me, and I don't have much in the way of nasal or sinus congestive symptoms. I've not used it with patients simply because I have lots of other options.

The underlying pathology of migraine does have to do with inflammation and edema involving small arteries, though. Considering, then, migraine as a primary disorder of blood vessels, it is not too terribly surprising that the extracranial (nasal) and intracranial (brain) vessels should both get inflamed and edematous. They both spring from the common carotid and are innervated by sympathetics from the cervical stellate ganglion, after all.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

What you need is the Sinus Buster (http://sinusbuster.com/)!