Chiliphil1
01-26-2013, 10:49 PM
Hey everyone, I've got a question in regard to headaches I wanted to see if anyone had any insight or personal experience.
I know that headaches are a part of anxiety disorders, especially tension headaches due to muscle tension and so forth, but I am having a few symptoms outside the tension headache description and im wondering if someone can tell me what kind of headaches I'm dealing with.
I get headaches maybe a couple times a week, but sometimes more, sometimes less. The headaches start with feeling a bit kinda like a motion sickness, then I get a dull pain in the forehead area and the top of my head, sometimes my neck will hurt too. Up to this point it sounds like a typical tension headache, but here's the difference. Sometimes I get nausea and a bit of dizziness with it, and generally if I take an excedrine or something like that the pains go away but the nausea and dizziness will stay, sometimes all day long. In addition the headache tends to come back within a couple of hours and sometimes it never fully goes away.
I have had these headaches last from hours to days before, the one I have right now has been going for about 8 hours. I have taken 2 doses of excedrine, but it persists.
I have noticed that I for whatever reason tend to keep my face and jaw muscles tensed without thinking about it, I loosen them whenever I catch myself doing it.
I'm a bit concerned about the headaches, but I'm trying not to flip about it, I really don't think it's a major issue, it seems like standard tension headaches, but the fact that it doesn't completely go away with meds and that I sometimes get nauseous, and "swimmy headed" worry me.
Oh, forgot to mention I also have a bit of a stuffy nose with it which I tend to keep most of the time, not sure if that might be related.
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
I know that headaches are a part of anxiety disorders, especially tension headaches due to muscle tension and so forth, but I am having a few symptoms outside the tension headache description and im wondering if someone can tell me what kind of headaches I'm dealing with.
I get headaches maybe a couple times a week, but sometimes more, sometimes less. The headaches start with feeling a bit kinda like a motion sickness, then I get a dull pain in the forehead area and the top of my head, sometimes my neck will hurt too. Up to this point it sounds like a typical tension headache, but here's the difference. Sometimes I get nausea and a bit of dizziness with it, and generally if I take an excedrine or something like that the pains go away but the nausea and dizziness will stay, sometimes all day long. In addition the headache tends to come back within a couple of hours and sometimes it never fully goes away.
I have had these headaches last from hours to days before, the one I have right now has been going for about 8 hours. I have taken 2 doses of excedrine, but it persists.
I have noticed that I for whatever reason tend to keep my face and jaw muscles tensed without thinking about it, I loosen them whenever I catch myself doing it.
I'm a bit concerned about the headaches, but I'm trying not to flip about it, I really don't think it's a major issue, it seems like standard tension headaches, but the fact that it doesn't completely go away with meds and that I sometimes get nauseous, and "swimmy headed" worry me.
Oh, forgot to mention I also have a bit of a stuffy nose with it which I tend to keep most of the time, not sure if that might be related.
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated, thank you.