24 hour headaches

[penguino84]

I am new to the anxiety world only a few months in. I have been taking meds for about a month now because I started getting really depressed do to my panic attacks. The pain in my chest is gone, the panic attacks are almost non-existant, but all day everyday I have headaches. pain pills don't make them go away, does anyone else deal with this? Does anyone have advice about how to get rid of the headaches? I feel like my life could almost return to normal if I could just start getting more sleep, and shaking off these headaches.

[trperkins]

I am new to the anxiety world only a few months in. I have been taking meds for about a month now because I started getting really depressed do to my panic attacks. The pain in my chest is gone, the panic attacks are almost non-existant, but all day everyday I have headaches. pain pills don't make them go away, does anyone else deal with this? Does anyone have advice about how to get rid of the headaches? I feel like my life could almost return to normal if I could just start getting more sleep, and shaking off these headaches.




Well, most of the medications for mental illnesses, including the anti-depressants for anxiety and depression disorders do come with such side effects of headaches etc for their users.


Yup, getting more sleeps would certainly help with your headache problem, and it would be at best to let yourself to get to sleep naturally without much help from any sleep-induced medications. Besides, based on my experiences, some light massages on your temples (on the part of your head), thighs as well as some regular reflexology treatments would help you relieve your headaches. All in all, maybe you would need to cut down on your reliance upon your medications at the same time for those mood disorders by seeking other non-medicational stuffs that could offer you other emotional reliefs, joys and comforts such as mixing around with your close ones etc. In addition, as for your panic attacks and chest pains, whilst taking medications to bring them under control, maybe you could gradually try to do some indoor light exercises to improve your health and physique (such as getting a better blood circulation, a healthier heart etc) against all those undesirable symptoms. All in all, I wish you good luck and a complete recovery for your illnesses in the end.

[bsmooth1]

as with all medication there are positive side and negative sides to all medication that you may take.Yes your stress and depression may have been eliminated because of the medicine that you have been taking but you being left with constant headaches.

I would ask consult the doctor who prescribed you the medication to see if this is normal. or if these headaches could be a early warning sign to something else.

For me personally i find that laying down and taking a quick nap with it being completely silent always helped me when i had constant migraines. and boy where they bad.

is there a chance that there is another type of medicine that will do the same as your current medicine. without the headaches..

best of luck to you. :shock:

[trperkins]

as with all medication there are positive side and negative sides to all medication that you may take.Yes your stress and depression may have been eliminated because of the medicine that you have been taking but you being left with constant headaches.

I would ask consult the doctor who prescribed you the medication to see if this is normal. or if these headaches could be a early warning sign to something else.

For me personally i find that laying down and taking a quick nap with it being completely silent always helped me when i had constant migraines. and boy where they bad.

is there a chance that there is another type of medicine that will do the same as your current medicine. without the headaches..

best of luck to you. :shock:




That would be quite a good idea.


is there a chance that there is another type of medicine that will do the same as your current medicine. without the headaches..


Well, I would like to add that medications, particularly the western medications for mental disorders such as anti-anxieties, anti-depressants, antipsychotics / neuroleptics etc, they are just like double-edged swords whereby they may be able to initially deliver their desired / expected therapeutical / curative effects in satisfactory ways onto the related patients needing and taking them, they nevertheless still come along with certain potentially subsequent undesirable side effects that might manifest onto the ones taking them particularly when such drugs are over-relied upon to the point of sheer abuse in the end.


Whilst in terms of anti-anxieties and anti-depressants medications for depressions, almost all of them would come along with the side effects of headaches, giddiness, and in the worst case scenario, akathisia - a sensation of restlessness characterized by an inability to sit still or remain motionless, often as a side effect of psychiatric medications, such as what I have experienced before with such drugs like Xanax, Ativan, Valium etc at a point where I become helplessly addicted to them and take them frequently over and over again everyday.


Lastly, since human bodies would eventually get immune to whatever medications fed to them constantly and repeatedly in the long-term, coupled with the very fact that such medications of anti-anxieties and anti-depressants are very addictive, well, they may just lose all their intended curative effects in the end, and instead of getting their intended therapeutical / mentally-comforting effects, one might just end up getting all their undesirable side effects in the end whenever one come to such a point / scenario.


Hence, whilst taking such medications to bring down all the undesirable symptoms of depressions, one at the same time should also put in the other non-medicational efforts to complement the inadequacies of such medications for the sake and purpose of holistic approach to anxieties, depressions and other mental disorders.

Hence I'm suggesting the following as a solution to anxieties, depressions and other mental disorders :


1/3 of medicational helps + 1/3 of psychotherapies, interactive, interpersonal, emotional, communication, conselling supports from the others + 1/3 of self-determinations, self-initiatives, self-controls, self-wills and self-disciplines to think positively, rationally, realistically and practically as well as to lead a normal and healthy life

[KarenJetto]

Exercise daily, you will improve your mood and you will unlock the neck and throat muscles.

[stanelyshane]

Basically, headache occurs due to reduce the flow of the blood. So, it is require to maintain the flow of the blood and pressure of the blood. In your case you should concern to the psychometric to get the better solution.

[KrisBlush]

I have to say that nowadays some of us don't consider that our lifestyle is one of the reasons which triggers our anxieties. Whatever we do, eat or drink might affect our anxieties. Are you drinking too much? Our drink can cause anxieties like caffeine. Take enough rest, sleep naturally. Regular exercise could really help you a lot to relieve your mind and body from stress. Search for more.

[trperkins]

Well, if it's really a very severe 24-hour-non-stop headaches whereby all other normal and alternative cures and therapies have been fully exhausted such as the ones mentioned in the prior post above, but nothing just work out positively, then I think the very last resort would be the neurologists and the ear-nose-and throat (ENT) specialists, particularly in the cases whereby such headaches are orginating from neurological causes due to variety of reasons such as the psychosomatic ones etc.