Headaches

[emlykate]

This week, I've been examinging the very vague term "headache". You can get a bit more explicit and add words to the term like: sinus, tension, migraine, stress, etc. but it really boils down to one thing, and one thing only, pain, somewhere above your neck and behind your face. To make it even more obnoxious, I've even discovered that I regularly have 3 variations of headache on the left side of my head, behind my left eye. Headache #1 (listed in chronological order) is your run of the mill sinus headache.... generalized pressure in the head, often accompanied by congestion, and usually somewhat localized to the areas immediately around the eyes. Take 2 Advil cold & sinus, call me in the morning. Headache #2 is a rather classic migraine... feels like there's someone sticking a knife in the back of my left eye, and shoving it in far enough that it'll cause my eye to actually pop out of my head, this is generally accompanied by nausea, sensitivity to light, sound, smell, movement, and the only sure fire cure is heavy drugs and 12 hours of sleep in a completely dark room. Headache #3 is a relatively new phenomenon, as in, I've recently discovered that it is in fact, separate from either #1 or #2. It does involve the area directly behind my left eye, and actually feels like some little gold miner is in there with a pickaxe, poking at the backside of my eye, the sensitivity is only to bright lights, there's much more movement sensitivity and it's actually painful to close my eyes and touch my upper eyelid (as compared to the right where it's just a weird pressure sensation). The disheartening part of this is that I've got no clue what to do for headache #3, the typical remedies don't work, it just hangs out there, for as long as it's going to, without changing. It's obnoxious. Anyone have any good ideas?