Constant Weird Headaches

[buffymad]

My other half has been suffering from headaches nearly every day for about 3 weeks now. The pain usually starts right at the top of his head then shoots down towards the front. It doesn’t stop him doing anything like a migraine would but it’s getting to him obviously.

He’s been to the docs who said nothing to worry about, probably muscular related and instead of taking paracetamol and/or ibuprofen (which didn’t work anyway), to rub ibuprofen gel on his head when the pain was there. Needless to say that does nothing either.

Has anyone experienced anything like this?

He’ll be going back to the docs (different one hopefully!) but just wondered if anyone had any words of wisdom in the meantime?

[Sqad]

LOL pixie....right ;-)

[whistonian]

I also suffer terrible head pain.It is either all over my scalp or down the right side of my head.It is so bad at times that I feel like hitting my head against a brick wall. My doctor has diagnosed it to be neurological pain.I take a Gabapentin tablet morning and night,a couple extra when I am in pain.

[buffymad]

Whistonian - is that something that's prescribed by the doctor? I guess the trick is to harass the doctor enough so he listens - can't just keep having pain all day every day (some days worse than others).

[rowanwitch]

Sounds daft but try an old fashioned make you drowsy type antihistamine with the normal pain killers half a dose is normally enough. I tracked down doxalamine from the U S it was the extra ingredient in the old formula Syndol. (The new formula is just co-codamol) Then I would look at getting his posture checked in case poor alignment is creating the tension. A physio should be able to do this.