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-Life-long Headache sufferer, could use some thoughts
I've been suffering from headaches my entire life, I remember experiencing headaches before age 10, and 30 years later, I still haven't found a solution.
The headaches I deal with seem to be right at the bridge of my nose, where it meets my forehead. The pain doesn't radiate outward much, it can sometimes, but usually it's a piercing pain in between my eyes. I experience this around 3 or 4 days a week. It's preventing me from being reliable at my job. These headaches very rarely last beyond one day for each occurance. Worst-case scenario is 2 days, but that just isn't common. When a headache strikes, it can be mild to severe, but I'm usually fine the next day.
I'll start with the obvious first. I've been seeing doctors regularly regarding this since I was a child. I've been x-rayed, blood tested, hooked up to EKG's (maybe not the right term, the machine with a bunch of wires they stick to your body) and other tests I can't remember off the top of my head. I wanted to mention this because the obvious answer here is "you should talk to a doctor" (but I've done that). I've even seen headache specialist, and the most I can get is being told that all tests are normal. There's been no fewer than a dozen doctors involved here. Most of the doctors tell me that I'm not dealing with migraines but specifically headaches, but then again, without an actual diagnosis, I take that with a grain of salt.
For the most part, I've given up on trying to figure this out. But I figured, if I make a Reddit post and ask some questions, what's the worst that could happen?
The most confusing thing here is what kind of headaches I'm dealing with. I've read countless articles, and I've even looked at the infographics that show human head outlines with red paint to show where pain is for each type of headache, but none of them match exactly. The closest match according to those infographics is a sinus headache, but even then I have doubts. Sinus headaches from what I've read, usually seem to result in an "X" shape, centralizing between the nose, radiating outward diagonal in each direction. Mine doesn't do that. It feels like maybe a quarter-sized area of pain right at the bridge of the nose. (Saline spray doesn't help).
And besides, a sinus headache 3-4 days every week of my entire life? I doubt it's even possible for someone to get a sinus infection that frequently, (but what do I know).
I have been diagnosed with general anxiety and also ADHD, but I only started medication for that around 2016 or so, and before that I wasn't taking any prescription medications at all.
My Psychologist mentions that he's seen this issue with people that get headaches due to their frontalis muscle contracting, but that was not a diagnosis but something he's seen in the past and that I may want to look into it (but research on that is all over the place at this point).
I've tried quitting caffeine after I read that can cause headaches with some people (I went for three years straight without a drop at one point), I've tried stopping painkiller use, stopping pain killers and caffeine at the same time, meditation, exercise, drinking lots of water, and some other things I can't think of.
You're probably wondering what the point is of me even posting this, and honestly, I don't have one other than maybe someone else may have had a similar experience or maybe there could be clues here.
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