okay this headache started at 2:05pm... it is now 6:28pm... usually the are half this long at the worst... what the heck is going on?  Help!  >:(  GG

Maybe a migraine.

    Potter

Not sure, but hoping you get relief from it soon.

Take notes and discuss it with your neurologist. There may be more than one headache type in action.

At my cycle peak I sometimes get an unstopable, fullblown K-10 that drops to K7-8 and stays there for many hours, we call this an afterburn. The only help I get is from O2 and forcing myself to eat.

I hope you have something else. An afterburn is very frustrating, and painfull.

Don

When this happens to me I drink a good size bottle of Gatorade in a very short period of time, like within 20 minutes. Lots of fluids but Gatorade has been working/helping for that.

I'm with Mike, chart your headaches for a while see if you may have a secondary headache type. We have several on the board who are cursed with both CH and migrain.  :-/

Joe

Mine normally last 2-4 hours each. Sometimes I'm "lucky" enough to get one that only last 30 mins or an hour. Usually the 4 hour ones come on around 7pm or so and the daytime ones staying closer to the 2 hour mark. Id say the shortest one is normally the one I wake up too normally growing longer and intensifying as the day goes on.

I had one like that today, shadow started at around 10 in the morning at work, before escalating to a kip 4 around 1 o'clock. Then it was coming and going about every hour, until I finally couldn't take it any more and drove home. Lifted about halfway home but still shadowing. Started up again as soon as I got home and at 6 I had had enough and sniffed a imitrex which more or less took care of it. I can still feel it in my neck, and it will probably come back with a vengeneance tonite when the imitrex wears off.