Hi my name is Trish, and I am unfortunately new to the ch site. OK here goes my story. I have been waking up every morning with a headache. Some times I can not even peal my head off my pillow. This started on Feb 24th. I remember I had a nice glass of wine with dinner the night prior. Well it is now March 21st and I still wake up with headaches sometimes they last all day like today. Well last week I had a whopper of a headache, but here's the thing I did not want to bang my head against a wall. I was paralyzed in pain. I could not even speak my entire head throbbed with pain. The lights killed my eyes. I know this sounds like a migraine right? OK I ended up in the hospital I was seriously going to ask them to put me in an induced coma. Instead they gave me oxygen and after 45min I was a new person I could open my eyes and take my hands off my head. I still had a headache but nothing at all like it was prior to the 02. OK now all of my am headaches prior to the whopper were on one side my right and a burning sensation across my forehead. I also get shooting pains in my temple area and behind my right eye. They never change same time of the day same type of pain of course some days I can functions with them and others I can not. Now ever since the oxygen I no longer wake up with the headaches, but get them during the day. Until today 6 days after the oxygen. I have had a constant headache since  I woke up. It is not the same as my others it is a lot of pressure. I left work a noon cause it felt like a whopper was coming. I toke an imitrex and in 3 hours could somewhat function. But my pain all day has been all around throbbing. I would call it a terrible sinus infection if i did not already have them checked. OK I know I am rambling on and on. But I need some advice. My doctor laughed in my face when I asked for oxygen. Instead he said take 2 propranolol (blood pressure drug) instead of one. I have been on that since September due to migraines. He also gave me an inhaler. OK so that does it any suggestion.  Thank you all for reading this I promise it will be my last long post.. ..I hope

Don't apologize for your long post...you got some serious pain issues going on. I'm no doctor but you may have a combo of ch and migrain...several people on the board have the misfortune of suffering from both. It doesn't sound like your current doc is taking you seriously. You need to get to a headache specialist who can weed through your symptoms and figure out if you are a combo CH and migrain, a complicated migrainer...or ?????? A doc that laughs at your suggestions is not a doc who I would stick with.

Good luck, the early part of the journey is the worst...hoping you can find a decent headache specialist.

Joe

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Sadly that's a common experience.......we suffer from a rare malady. And on top of that, the head is one complicated piece of machinery! If you're not already keeping a headache diary, start one. What time they start, how fast they build, how high they build, how long they stay at peak pain, how fast they go away. (The KIP scale on the left is as good a pain measure as any I've seen). Identify any apparent triggers, any side effects during an attack, auras preceding the attack, nausea before during or after, changes in eyes, discharge from eyes or nose, every detail you can think of.

This information is critical to an early and accurate diagnosis. As I mentioned earlier, this is the toughest time, trying to get the correct diagnosis. Hang in there.

Joe