Hi...I wake up every morning like clock work...I have been having severe headaches since I was a little girl..most people thought I was trying to get out of things, then school, then work...and this list goes on and on...I am now 43 years of age and I still am getting these same headaches...You might say I am use to them but sometimes I am so TIRED then I get one like I did this morning and I wanted to just die...I usually get them on one side of my head...I use an ice pack and even enhale water through my nose which helps a great deal...I have no strength during or after the episode, I wake up stumble to the the kitchen grab the ice pack as I stumble to the bathroom where I sifle water through my nose for about a minute. I then brush my teeth ignoring the pain or just moving through the pain..I drink 8-12 oz of VERY cold water and when I say ice pack I use the ones meant to keep food cold for several hours and I place it at the nape of my neck and the side of my head which feels like someone as taken and bored a hole through it using a sledge hammer and pick...that is the minimal pain I am describing...this morning I would muliply that by atleast 1000 I needed a full helmet of ice packs just to numb me through the pain...I dont know what the effects are of using these cold packs like this but I keep my sanity this way...as a little girl I wanted to KILL someone I wake up angry and tried to explain how I felt and no one belived me...I was 6months free and have gone periods of no headaches but the period of no headaches is less than having them. My boyfriend and I are stressed about this...He is trying to understand and does for the most part but I wake up he wakes up...this is every morning like clock work...lasting from about 30 mins to a couple of hours...
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Hi...I wake up every morning like clock work...I have been having severe headaches since I was a little girl..most people thought I was trying to get out of things, then school, then work...and this list goes on and on...I am now 43 years of age and I still am getting these same headaches...You might say I am use to them but sometimes I am so TIRED then I get one like I did this morning and I wanted to just die...I usually get them on one side of my head...I use an ice pack and even enhale water through my nose which helps a great deal...I have no strength during or after the episode, I wake up stumble to the the kitchen grab the ice pack as I stumble to the bathroom where I sifle water through my nose for about a minute. I then brush my teeth ignoring the pain or just moving through the pain..I drink 8-12 oz of VERY cold water and when I say ice pack I use the ones meant to keep food cold for several hours and I place it at the nape of my neck and the side of my head which feels like someone as taken and bored a hole through it using a sledge hammer and pick...that is the minimal pain I am describing...this morning I would muliply that by atleast 1000 I needed a full helmet of ice packs just to numb me through the pain...I dont know what the effects are of using these cold packs like this but I keep my sanity this way...as a little girl I wanted to KILL someone I wake up angry and tried to explain how I felt and no one belived me...I was 6months free and have gone periods of no headaches but the period of no headaches is less than having them. My boyfriend and I are stressed about this...He is trying to understand and does for the most part but I wake up he wakes up...this is every morning like clock work...lasting from about 30 mins to a couple of hours...