Hello guys, greetings from Serbia.
I'm a 25 year old guy seeking advice on "the beast" as I saw some of you call it. I'm hoping if I tell you my story, you'd be able to recall how your struggle first started and maybe give me some guidelines and tips on how to deal with this (if this is the real deal that is).
Last year around march I believe I started getting daily headaches located above my eye (I think it was right side, but I just can't remember now). In a months span there might've been like two pain free days, and most of the days it was two attacks. The pain was as if something was squeezing, stabbing the area and it was pulsating. It wouldn't matter if I'm lying down or rocking my head back and forward, though it helped when I squeezed the sides of my head. Duration was between 30 mins to an hour and there wasn't any "shadow pain" after it. I actually used to keep diary about the attacks but I can't find it now.
As some of you describe it, alcohol was a big trigger, so I wasn't having any of it even a month after the cycle ended in fear of it repeating. What I clearly remember though is that sharp pain located exactly above my eye.
Few days ago I started getting some minor headaches which I was treating with caffetine (paracetamol, coffeine, codein) but they didn't resemble the ones from last year in any way. Also worth mentioning that I drank last 3 weekends. Now yesterday evening I was woken up by pulsating pain
behind my right eye. It developed in like five minutes and it was awful, got me squeeling and walking around the house at 4 am. The pain also spread and I felt it in my right ear. When I looked into the mirror my eye was teary and red. Subsided after 40ish minutes and I managed to fall asleep. Now the whole day today I'm feeling a shadow pain in that area as if it might happen any second now. What worries me the most is that I am supposed to be working night shifts for the next two weeks, and I don't know what I'll do if they happen during my work.
Also worth mentioning is that I'm working in front of the computer, so I don't know if extensive looking at the screen might trigger it tonight.
So yeah, any input or advice would be
greatly appreciated. Also if you can remember how your headaches started, do write it down. Wish you all a pain free day!