Very Short, Frequent, Painful Headaches

meredith · Silver Member Joined: 21 Oct 2000 Posts: 302

I have problems lately with very short, frequent and painful headache. They don’t last long but the pain is very sharp like someone stubbed me on the right side of my head. It is very short pain but it’s frequent and painful and it really scares me. I’d like to hear what it could be?

laurel · Silver Member Joined: 14 Apr 2001 Posts: 227

I think you suffer from the so called ice pick headaches. I can tell it for I suffer from such headaches. These headaches are usually described as sharp spontaneous head pain that comes from nowhere and it’s not related to some organic disease. I know the pain that ice pick headaches causes is terrifying and may become very frequent meaning that might happen you have them few times a day and usually they are not related to any serious medical condition. Actually the problem is headache itself and I myself very often don’t manage to react on time when it comes to medical therapy for the shortness of a headache. And recently I also started taking indomethacin before sleep for it happens frequently those sharp short headaches attacks while in sleep. But on the other side these drugs might cause some ugly side-effects such as nausea, heartburn, bleeding problems and gastric ulcers. Anyway my advice is that whenever it comes to serious headaches it’s always better to check it with head specialists.

Very Short, Frequent, Painful Headaches

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