Posted by Vincent_QC on March 8, 2010, at 21:48:52
In reply to Re: adrenal fatigue + tension headache (Lyrica) » Vincent_QC, posted by Phillipa on March 8, 2010, at 21:19:58
> Vincent thought you had had an MRI. Just wanted to be sure. Why not try the motrin for a few days. Think they are cluster headaches? Love Phillipa
Cluster headache are not the same Phillipa...
Wait a minute... if I look on wiki, I will tell you the difference between cluster and tension headaches... lol
Tension headache: Tension-type headaches can be episodic or chronic. Episodic tension-type headaches are defined as tension-type headaches occurring fewer than 15 days a month, whereas chronic tension headaches occur 15 days or more a month for at least 6 months ( That's what I have). Tension-type headaches can last from minutes to days, months or even years, though a typical tension headache lasts 46 hours.
Cluster headache: excruciating unilateral headaches, of extreme intensity. The duration of the common attack ranges from as short as 15 minutes to three hours or more. The onset of an attack is rapid, and most often without the preliminary signs that are characteristic of a migraine. However, some sufferers report preliminary sensations of pain in the general area of attack, often referred to as "shadows", that may warn them an attack is imminent. Though the headaches are almost exclusively unilateral, there are some documented as cases of "side-shifting" between cluster periods, or, even rarer, simultaneously (within the same cluster period) bilateral headache. Trigeminal neuralgia can also bring on headaches with similar qualities. However, with Trigeminal neuralgia the pain is mostly located around the "cheek" area and is described as being more lance-like in quality.
I can tell you that i'm having chronic tension headache, who last more than 15 days a months...
In june 2006, I start having my first chronic tension headache experience... the headache last almost 9 months in a row, without a day with no pain... At some point, I was involved a lot into school works and I kinda forget the pain... and I stop having chronic tension headache... I had only 1 or 2 headache a week at a low intensity...
It's the second time in my life where i'm experiencing chronic tension headache... mean more than 15 days a month...
I had migraine as a child... at teenager years they stop... Had some migraines again when I was put on the Paxil in 1994... and since then, I have headache 1-2 times a week...
But regular and annoying painfull headache who last for more than 2 weeks are really hard to support for me... it's hard to be active and move my *ss when I feel that pain in my head...
For my normal head pain... not the headache, it's probably linked to the Benzo meds... the gaba crave for more benzo... but those receptors will crave more and more because I will not take more of them !!! lol
Motrin = Same active ingredient than the Advil = rebound headache...
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