Massive headaches

[Entity_Razer]

Well, lately i've been having MASSIVE headaches which i wake up with and i go to bed with... only the next day they are gone or are still there, one of both.

needless to say this is beginning to be the biggest nuisance in my life there is because i can hardly look at a screen while i have them let alone live in "light" conditions...

so i'm turning to you people, do you people know of a good way to get rid of headaches fast, or what this could be?

the headache is located front slightly "off center" behind my eyes (the back of my eyes feels like my brains are only being held "up"/resting on my eyeballs) and needless to say its one SPLITTING Headache...

so... anyone got any clue's ideas? because if this keeps going on i'm gonna go visit a doctor or something... my vision is 20/20 btw(or whatever is normal/good) and i can still see sharp when i have these headaches so i don't think i need glasses

[trance565]

sounds like migranes.

also, have you had any head/eye trauma recently? could possibly be an eye problem.

[Movieman]

Go see a Dr and find out...Then take 2 Yorkfields and call me in the morning..:p:

[tiro_uspsss]

do u have CRTs or LCDs - if CRTs double check that they r running @ at least 85Hz...

are u sleeping near powerboards/cords or any device that gives out EMI?

[tiro_uspsss]

Go see a Dr and find out...Then take 2 Yorkfields and call me in the morning..:p:

take?! TAKE?!? GIVE DAM IT GIVE TWO YORKFIELDS (to me) :D:D:D:D :p: :up:

[Entity_Razer]

Go see a Dr and find out...Then take 2 Yorkfields and call me in the morning..:p:

TFT's so that shouldn't be a problem, thing is i wake UP with them even though i haven't been playing/working the day before for instance and Movie, i'd love to take 2 yorks, i'll PM you my shipping adress so you can send me a rig or 2? :rofl:

[tiro_uspsss]

go c Dr! i'm all out! :p:

[Movieman]

TFT's so that shouldn't be a problem, thing is i wake UP with them even though i haven't been playing/working the day before for instance and Movie, i'd love to take 2 yorks, i'll PM you my shipping adress so you can send me a rig or 2? :rofl:

Well I do have my DX2400 and DX3600 looking for new homes..Not Yorkies but still decent machines and will warm your house this winter!:D

[Vapor]

Sounds like a migraine to me...def see a doc about that if it's getting in the way of life (and it sounds like it is...most migraines do).

Some I think is a fair question for everyone on this forum....what's your caffeine intake? If it's high, did it temporarily drop for even a day or two?

[Entity_Razer]

my caffeine intake is "pretty high" but no it didn't drop all of a sudden (working on a big coding project for school so i need my caffeine levels not to mention these headaches to stop so i can think clearly

and at movie:
Sorry mate i'd love to take the 3600 in but don't got no room at my dorm no more.... one of these days i'm going to have to install a entire rack at my dorm just to keep all my PC's organised and neatly put "away" :rofl:

[Unseen]

I had the same thing 2 years ago. The problem was that i was working in a basement without much fresh air and without sun light...

[sky]

i used to have a boatload of migraines when i was younger. best run so far, 4 continuous weeks of splitting headaches. taken an aspirin or two for breakfast - that was during a... 4 week .. vacation, so bleeding awesome trip.

anyway. i used to get my "normal" migraines on weekends, mostly sunday. growing stronger as the sunday would move on and usually ending with me being sick at around 8-10pm. (almost every time).
turns out for me, at that time, it was wildly swinging daily rhtyms. like during the week i'd have to get up at 7 for school, and be in bed by midnight. on weekends (starting friday evening) it would be more like be in bed by 5am, get up again at some time past noon. seems my body couldn't really deal with it, so it sent out its warning signals. needless to say, this is gone now.
a friend of mine in the bay area suffers from a yeast allergy he didn't know about until later this year. his treatment used to be selfadministered loads of beer and assorted other alcoholic beverages. turns out beer contains yeast, same as bread... so those are off limits for him now. i haven't gotten word back on how this has turned out - he used to have headaches 24/7/365 for the last 4 or 5 years.

so def. go and see a doc. best thing to do. it might be allergies, fungus growing somewhere (like inside an ac unit..), lifestyle. it might even be plain backpain from hunched over working positions or whatever...

[twilyth]

I used to get migraines all the time. My mom had the same problem. Sometimes she would be in bed for a couple days. The hallmarks of a migraine though are sensitivity to light, nausea and sometimes "auras". Yours sounds like a bad sinus headache. But as has been said numerous times, you need to see a doctor. A migraine will respond to one of the serotonin drugs like sumatriptan. For a sinus headache, you first need to treat the cause which is probably an allergy or infection. For the pain, try ketoprofen. It's chemically similar to ibuprofen but stronger. In the US it's sold as Orudis KT. I used to take 2 or 3 of these and they worked most of the time. However at that dose you're going to feel a little dopey. Another drug that always helped was Fiorinal with codeine. I'd have to check but I think it was a vasoconstrictor (ergot alkaloid). That probably won't help with a sinus headache (although the codeine part will) but it might work on a migraine.

[[XC] Hicks121]

I get migraines still, had them all of my life. Took many years to figure out what was causing them. I cant have anything with malt or MSG's(monosodium glutamate). after eating anything with those in them, the next day i get a bad migraine, sometimes for more than a day. It really sux, cause i cant drink beer anymore, so now i stick to RUM :D . Check you diet out man, do some googling on migraines, took me 5 years & many different drugs & docs to figure this out. I use to average 20-30 headaches a year, now im down to 3-4 a year. now i dont take the drugs on a daily basis, just when i need it.

Good luck.

[Mav451]

Yeah definitely sounds like migraines - I had these all the time in high school and college. Heck, even my first few months I had them at my job. All the doctors told me the same drivel:

There is no cure for migraines. There is no true drug to relieve migraine pain. There's preventative and post-migraine drugs, but nothing really works that well. Oh, and migraine pills can have some serious side-effects, so i gave up on those pretty quickly - e.g. look up beta blockers. Another one that was used if you can "feel" it coming (either "banging" pain or "tight/throbbing pain") - that made me drowsy, so scratch that for work days.

If this just started suddenly, I'd like to think it's these 2 things:
1) diet (anythign you've ate, particularly dairy stuff)
2) neck trauma/stress

Of course, I'm not a doctor, but being a fellow migraine-sufferer, I think I have some perspective on this. Any actual doctors @ XS should chime in though.

[One_Hertz]

advil works every time for me :shrug: . I get massive unremovable headaches if I don't get my daily caffeine drink though.