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When I was very young, I suffered from chronic headaches. I used to just sit in class with my head on the desk feeling completely miserable. Doctors suggested t
by beart 5y ago
When I was very young, I suffered from chronic headaches. I used to just sit in class with my head on the desk feeling completely miserable. Doctors suggested this was likely due to sinus problems. My nose was completely stuffed up all the time. After going to a few specialists, nothing ever really came of it, but I did eventually just grow out of it.
However, I continued to get these really nasty migraines from time to time throughout most of my life. It would typically happen maybe once a month at most, but it was almost always on a Sunday. I would wake up and my head would not hurt, but I immediately knew it was coming because things just didn't feel quite right. As the day goes on, I would start to feel nauseous and my head would slowly get worse. By evening I could barely move, and basically just had to lay in a completely dark and silent room, hoping I would eventually fall asleep. Typically waking up the next day with still some after-effect of it. I found a few things that helped a little, such as going outside and getting fresh air, but nothing that would cure it.
As I've gotten older, that pretty much never happens anymore - maybe once every year at most. I can't think of anything that actually changed, it just stopped being a problem.
- chitowneats 5y agoHave you changed your diet? A friend of mine struggled with chronic headaches and swears that cutting out most refined sugars from her diet cured them.
- beart 5y agoAt some point in my life I stopped drinking soda regularly, so maybe there is some factor there. I could never identify why on one particular day, I would get a migraine vs any other day. The only constant factor was that it always seemed to happen on a weekend. There were some days where I would feel it coming on, and tried getting up and out doing something as much as I could. This tended to help a bit, but typically by evening I would still have some form of migraine.
- BurningFrog 5y agoIf it only happened on Sundays, I'd suspect it was either from something you did on Saturdays, or something you didn't do on the weekends.
- cma 5y agoTranslating: drinking alcohol or not drinking caffeine
- BurningFrog 5y agoNow that you say it, I used to get weekend headaches because I drank coffee at work, but not outside it. Took a few months before I saw the pattern.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agojaw tension? muscle tension at base of skull? I have similar ones. 4 standard dose ibuprofens (a big dose, but still safe if you eat something with them) generally works, sometimes for BAD ones I do 5-6 ibuprofens and sometimes also 2 tylenols. Sometimes taking 2 ibuprofen early on (as you say, you don't have a headache but know its coming) ward mine off so the heavier doses aren't needed.
- pfg 5y ago> It would typically happen maybe once a month at most, but it was almost always on a Sunday. Do you recall if you slept in on those days? I tend to get a specific kind of headache if I sleep for too long. This also happens if I take a nap during the day. I don't really take any naps because of that, but I remember hating being forced to nap in Kindergarten (at least during the first two years or so), probably for the same reason.
- julosflb 5y agoIdem for me. Too much sleep or late wake up during the week end tends to cause me migraine.