Migraine overview
A migraine is a headache that can purpose intense throbbing suffering or a pulsing sensation, typically on one facet of the head. It's often accompanied with the aid of nausea, vomiting, and excessive sensitivity to mild and sound. Migraine assaults can closing for hours to days, and the discomfort can be so excessive that it interferes with your each day activities. For some people, a warning symptom viewed as an air of secrecy takes location until now than or with the headache. An air of secrecy can consist of visible disturbances, such as flashes of mild or blind spots, or different disturbances, such as tingling on one thing of the face or in an arm or leg and concern speaking.
My experience-Weird buzzing/tingling/electric/heavy headache thing??
Okay. Trying here. Now, I do have a history of pretty standard migraines, and I take propranolol and sumatriptan, and just started on Topamax (literally yesterday, so ruled out as a cause). The propranolol and Topamax are both treating other things, and the migraine help is like a plus. I also get stabs of occipital neuralgia.
Anyway. I started Wellbutrin about a month ago, and upped the dose about a week ago. Without fail, every day around 3pm, the back of my head, right above the nape of my neck, starts up this sensation that can only be described as white noise? If white noise was a feeling? Then it intensifies, spreading throughout my head, it kind of radiates much more lightly down my spine, and it feels so “nervy”—kind of pulses and sparks with movement. And I swear it pulses when I apply pressure on my extremities. Even weirder is gently brushing through the ends of my hair causes another nervy pulse. It. Is. So. Weird. There’s a slight ache accompanying it, and I’d definitely call the sensation debilitating, but it’s not necessarily “pain”.
Yes, I’m in communication with my doctor, but I won’t see her until Friday, and I’ve just been puzzling over what this could be. Google has been most unhelpful, probably because this is so hard to describe.
Note: I do have stenosis in my neck. I’m young, so doctors weren’t pressed when they found it a couple years ago, and haven’t checked it again since. Could that do something like this? I mentioned the Wellbutrin since it occurred so specifically in that timeframe, but Wellbutrin doesn’t just cause side effects, it can trigger conditions you already have.
Anyway. It’s extremely hard to live with. My afternoons/evenings suck, just trying to make it through these constant waving/pushing sensations of electricity/buzzing centered at the back of my head and spreading all the way through. Eye movements do seem to make it a little worse. Walking is terrible too, like every time my foot hits the ground it’s jostling whatever is irritated up there. Oh, and swallowing! Swallowing, and to an extent, chewing cause a stronger pulse. And noise, oof, noise sends this pressure-pulse thing through ears to the center of my head.
I tried Advil and Tylenol, did zip. I hate my sumatriptan, but I finally caved and tried it about 20 an hour ago, slight effect. Oddly, yesterday I tried clonazepam, which I take like, twice a month, for the hell of it and it seemed to actually help. I was not anxious. 🤷 .
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