headaches all day, everyday. always tired. more symptoms listed. help?

I am almost 19 and i have been dealing with these headaches dizziness and insomnia for about 3 years, but it has gotten really bad the past year. I get tons of sinus infections (bad genes from a whole family of people with sinus infections :S) and they used to go away after a few weeks. then the antibiotics just kinda stopped working and so i basically have one long sinus infection that has lasted about 3 months now. my sinus infections usually make my whole head hurt, but mostly up by the face and temples. all the other symptoms too. i believe i have chronic sinusitis and i am just at the end of my limit of just ignoring the pain. i am willing to have surgery to make this pain stop. also, about a year ago, i was having some really bad tension headaches in the back of my neck and head. i found out it was due to bad posture...so i went to a physical therapist. as weird as it sounds, it totally helped. after about 2 sessions my headaches were almost gone and i felt happy enough to just giggle about how good i felt. my guy did this thing where he pulled on my head and it just released all the tension in my neck and it really was like all the stress and pain got sucked out of me. so for everyone out there, i dont know if there is some kind of undiagnosed disease that makes everyone miserable and drs look like idiots, but i am sick of it and am ready to try anything. hope this helps and if anyone has tips let me know - im desperate.

im 15 &' im having the same stuff . with the dizziness &' the headaches

I have this same problem and they told me its neropathy. im on cybalta for this and it helps.

I've been having the same thing, since November last year, when my school holidays started. It's the same, with the dizzy spells and the headaches except for the cold thing. I get the nausea when I'm hungry, and it's been going on for a week now. I'm only eleven.... I don't know what it could be. I've tried sleeping a lot but I always manage to wake up early and have the headache start, I've taken a lot of panadol, the children's one, and it doesn't help. It doesn't hurt more when I look at a screen or listen to music. My dad, who's a physician, says it might be psychosis. My grandmother says it's because I don't drink enough water or something and I drink more than a litre per day. My mom just scolded me for complaining so much about it. Also, they're thinking of making me go for an MRI scan. I hope it'll be over soon. I can't take it much longer. It hurts on both sides now, previously it only hurt on the left. It gets to a level of unbearable pain to a constant throbbing which simply irritates me. I'm weaker than usual and don't go outside of play sports as often anymore. I doubt it's my glasses because when I take them off it doesn't help. I hope someone can tell me what's happening. I don't want it to trouble me any further. I already have to deal with the obsessive side of OCD. 

Help? Anyone? Please?

- An Eleven Year Old with the Exact Same Problem

My headaches came on when I was around 14 I'm now 22, I too had all the checks done and was prescribed several different medications that were of no help what so ever. My doctor then diagnosed the condition as NDPH New daily persistent headache and there was nothing i could do to stop them apart from taking the medication that never worked. However I found out roughly three years ago one thing that stopped the headaches and other symptoms and still works wonders to this day... Marijuana :) now I understand some of you may disagree with the use of marijuana but personally I would encourage it if the purpose of using it is for medical use and reduces the pain and discomfort! Unfortunately I have now decided to stop taking it due to drugs tests being carried out in the workplace so I'm on here for answers or any advice that may benefit myself and hopefully others. But seriously if your in a position to take marijuana weather it be smoking or an edible give it a go it works wonders! Anyone else have any other suggestions?

I've had these symptoms my whole life, or from what me and my mum can remember. I too am 15. And my mum thinks it might be either an iron deficiency(this runs in my family) or diabetes. We're hoping to get it checked out. As for the tension in your neck and the tingles. Those are from the migraines. You might want to look migraines up and look at how many of your symptoms compare to migraine symptoms. Hope I helped.

I was diagnosed with Empty Sella Syndrome several years ago, which deals with the putitary gland. Most of the time it does not bring symptoms with it. My doctor at that time was trying to find out why I was having headaches. Starting last year I began to have this pressure in my head around my left ear, in the the back of my neck sometimes going up to the top. I figure it had something to do with my high blood pressure. I also can have partial taste and partial smell, and my vision is blurry. After seeing my interal medicine doctor, an allergist, and neurosurgeon, and it still could be figured out. I went to my old condition that I thought was not giving me a problem, and I did research. What I found was that most people who have Empty Sella Syndrome also intracranial pressure, and it is called idiopathic intracranical pressure. I immediately went to see my neurosurgeon and explained this to him (which was something he should have brought to me). He ordered a CT scan to see if there was any leakage behind the eyes, because i was having pain behind eyes and nose. He seen nothing. So I looked at him and said Does that mean I do not have it, he saids the only sure way to know is to see a neuro-ophthalmolist and receive a lumbar puncture. Well i did both and my CSF fluid was up to 28.8, a normal one would be between 12-20.

CSf fluid is the fluid in your brain. My ophth put me on Diamox which is also use for elevation sickness and people who have mild tremors, I instantly felt a change after two days. The side effects are awful metallic taste when you drink beverages, tingling in fingers and toes and I had an allergic reaction to it, i developed rashes all over that inched so bad at night. She is now going to change my prescription to something else, I am on my way to get it. I hope this helps you. One thing about intercranical pressure with people who have empty Sella we are mostly overweight just losing 5 pds will bring the pressure down. I am not saying you have empty sella, you can have intracranical pressure without having empty sella, because the idiopathic means unexplained.

I have the same problem, my headaches have been going on for over a year now though, i get the same painful sharp pains, and my face also goes tingly or sometimes numb, i got tested for mono as-well, but i was clear, i did not get a CT scan even though i was offered one (I was to scared, because im chlaustrophobic) but every sympton you listed i also had and still have,(except for the blood.)

I'm having the constant headaches, all day.. every day. Its depressing. I'm 22 and although this won't help me because I've already been diagnosed with it but u girls should get checked for hypothyroidism. I was just a normal 19 yr old girl, fine.. and was tired all the time n just crappy feeling also living with severe constipation I finally got diagnosed I've been on synthroid every day of my life since and seam to notice no changes for the better if anything my hypo symptoms are even more intense and the meds don't make u sick or anything but I really don't think its working. I have these headaches and its terrible idk what to do? I might ask about a different medication but its just so hard switching around like that. I hate synthroid tho its not doing anything but making me worse

It is interesting to read so many posts as I believe it is only a fraction of those actually suffering out there.  I have had headaches 24/7 since August 2007.  Started with over the counter and different remedies but none of that worked.  After several months it was debiltating enough to affect my working so off to the doctor.  Then off to the neurologist.  We tried many different medicines over the years till finding something that helped but never broke the cycle.  CT's MRI's same results as you all negative.  I currently am treated with Lyrica twice daily, Nortriptyline at night, Madnesium Oxide daily, Botox shots every three months, and a Migranal Spray for when they start turning into a migraine to try to head them off or at least lessen the affects.  I am diagnossed with a combination of migraine and compound headaches.  It seems that all we can do is medicate to reduce the pain to be able to function and slowly get used to it and raise the tolerance for pain.  Best wishes to all of you for a cure someday.

I also went to the doctor for the same type of reasons, and he suggested I was allergic to Dust Mites as well, and something to do with making your bed, and things. Mine hurts really badly in my eyes for hours at a time, almost daily. They hurt to the point I can even keep my eyes open sometimes, and others it's only a tad but of pain and I can go on throughout my day.

A close friend of mine has been having this same problem, she is 43. I dont know if this site helps, but its worth a try. Good luck ladies.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Mens_Health_Watch/2009/June/Headache-When-to-worry-what-to-do

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Other symptoms like dried out frizzy hair dried out skin sometimes swelling , anxiety and depression or craving sweets? Extreme fatigue cant concentrate onky thing thst seems to help is a shower?. Skin itchy and gastrointestinal problems?

Over the last year and a half i got more and more syptoms more tests all neg and long story short i figured out what i had there an unknown,epidemic going around its cryptococcus its a fungal infection that spread slowly after u breath in the spores could be months before u show any signs of symptoms and causes all types of illNess , massive respitory problems and its something drs dont everr test for most people end up in the hospital with staff MRSA or MSSA AND they still havent figured out thr root cause is fungus which is why they cant kill the infection cuz thr fungus kerps it thriving snd sntibiotics dont kill fugus, aftrr a year and a half of hopelessness in finding outg why i simply felt like i was fslling apart i got lucky snd stumbled across something omline snd went and got an antigen test for cryptovoccus snd i had it of course

Also way to tell grab some sunblock put it on or if yoy have migraines put it on your temples guarantee pain relief cuz sunblock droens ffungi