Tension and sinus trouble have teamed up to make me miserable. My head feels like a slimy, sinister, alien annelid is going to burst from my skull and wreak havoc in the lab.
Come to think of it, this lab was build on top of a decommissioned military base. And, we’re in the western United States so there must be an Indian Burial Ground ™ under the old base that the lab was built on! Let’s hope I wasn’t teleported into the Awful SciFi/Horror plot dimension. :eek:
I’ve had headaches that felt like a garrotte was being tightened around the frontal quarter of my brain while lava pumped through my veins and blistered out through my eyeballs, melting them into oblivion.
I’ve had headaches that felt like a rusty railroad spike was being used to excavate my frontal lobes while life in all it’s washed out, ultra-overstimulating horror unfolded before spasmodic, twitching eyes.
And then there are the ones that make me want to stick my head into one of those machines that compacts junk cars into tiny metal cubes. They’re rather hard to describe though.
My worst ones last only a few seconds. I get a tremendous flash of pain inside my right temple. I gasp, and I can’t think of anything but the pain. It helps a little to press on my temples. It’s usually gone completely in five seconds or less. If it’s any longer, I fall to my knees and get dizzy.
I’ve had a couple migranes (yes, real migranes, not just bad headaches) that had me moaning in pain and near tears. But the worst headache I ever had was a couple days after I had all 4 wisdom teeth extracted- three were impacted- and I got two dry sockets. I woke up in the middle of the night in such pain from the dry sockets it felt like a rusty shovel was scraping my frontal lobe and my tooth socket at the same time. I stumbled out of bed and collapsed in a heap on the floor; my wife was ready to call 9-1-1 because she had no idea what the hell was going on. She got me a couple Vicodin, helped me back to bed, and laid two ice packs on my head. Fortunately it dissapated in about 15 minutes.
Worst pain I ever felt.
I get migraines every few months, but usually only with visual distortion, and without pain. However, last year I had one that knocked me sideways.
I’ve heard other migraine sufferers saying that the pain is beyond belief, but I had never experienced it before. I was half-blind for about five hours, and one side of my face went numb, before the pain came. I went to bed and lay down, and all I could see in my mind’s eye was my brain as a big red balloon being squeezed, with a lobe of it pulsing out from between the squeezer’s cruel hands, just above my right eye. I downed nurofen and codeine and other stuff like they were candy, but nothing relieved it. I slept once for about five minutes but it woke me up again, so I just lay there wanting to cry.
After about three or four more hours it had abated enough for me to move again, but for the rest of that day and most of the next, I couldn’t read properly, the words jumbling up on the page, showing me perhaps what dyslexics experience.
Migraines are rare for me, thank God. When I get them, they’re absolutely unendurable. It’s one of those things that has to be experienced to be believed because mere words lack the power to describe it.
It feels like I have a team of miners desperately trying to tunnel their way out of my head. My eyeballs seem to pulse in time to the sledge-hammer blows and any light or sound is agonizing. It seems to sap all the strength from my bones, leaving me dizzy and weak. Lying there on the floor, I vomit and writhe helplessly, hoping I’m going to die just so the pain will end.
Worst headache ever: probably the one accompanying the traumatic brain injury/fractured skull (in a few places) caused by a Complete Waste of Carbon. It lasted for weeks and weeks. Once I was able to sit up, it took all my might not to throw up. Trying to open my eyes was enough to send seering pain through both head and neck that defies definition.
I’ve had migraines. I’ve had horrid tension headaches.
Nothing compares.
Holy OW, batman.
Migraines are awful, but my top award goes to the meningitis headache.
I was sure I was going to die. In fact, I would have welcomed the Grim Reaper’s deadly embrace with gratitude at several points. And there’s not a damned thing to do about it (this was the boring, innocuous viral kind, not the bacterial kind that makes the papers, freaks people out, puts you in the hospital, and actually COULD kill you).
I was going to say migraines (I’ve had two in my life and I remember both of them, that’s how bad they were). Then I remembered my spinal injury!
I had a spinal for a very minor surgical procedure and they screwed it up: made a hole in my spinal cord and all my spinal fluid leaked out into my system, leaving mah pore brain high and dry. Never felt pain like that. Like a rusty sword going up my spine and somone scouring my skull with Brillo pads. Plus the constant throwing up from the spinal fluid “on the loose.”
They had to wrap me up like a mummy, hang me from the ceiling by my heels (a Trendelenburg position, I think it was called) for nearly a month, and inject me with caffiene (which helps you manufacture spinal fluid–that’s why coffee can be good for some headaches).
I have never had a headache as bad as people in this thread, thankfully, nor have I ever had a migraine. But you did bring to mind a weird one that also hurt a lot. I’m down with a cold, and I had a semi-waking dream last night that there were several hands inside my skull, pressing directly on my brain and trying to squish it small. ow. Ow. ow. Ow. It hurt, as you can tell, but it weirded me out more than anything else.
I get migranes sometimes.
Usually they suck.
Sometimes they SUCK.
The pain is so bad that I can’t lie down - I have to just sit up, hyperventilating, throwing up, because it’s so bad.
My brother has had to take me to the emergency clinic for a shot a couple of times.
I was in the backseat as my parents were driving to a city far away. It began small and gradually got worse to the point where i was laying in the back trying to visualise my power animal. The pain was so intense and blinding, i asked my parents to shut up as there talkin was like driving spikes into my eyes. We got to the hotel and i went to bed. I slept for 12 hours, and so deeply that when my parents left and tried to get back in, leaving the key behind in the locked room, i didnt awake to their poundings on the door. They had to call the concierge to let them in. They finanlly got me awake and i felt like a million bucks. Turns out it was a nasty sinus infection.
I’ve had both a post concussion headache and a post spinal anesthesia headache and dozens of regular old migraine barf-fests that last for days. They’re all terrible. The worst, though, was when I was 6 months pregnant, went into early labor, which had to be stopped using some drug I can’t recall the name of. [I’m breaking into a cold sweat just thinking about it.] Whatever the drug was, Og bless it, it was a miracle. It stopped the labor. But it turned the garden variety migraine I already had into a super duper, mind-blowing, mega-atomic behemoth of a hideous headache. I remember thinking, man, these labor pains really aren’t all that bad.
Describe your worst headache.
I was just amazed that the thread below this one was ‘Cordless Drills’… :eek:
When I was in junior high I got pretty frequent migraines. One I was out to dinner with my parents and it sort of crept up on me. I made them take me home because the light and smell had me on the verge of puking. I did puke from it when I got home, then made my parents be silent and threw a blanket over my curtain rod to block all the light. Then I pretty much cried softly while pressing my pillow over my eyes. I passed out eventually. I get headaches all the time, but luckily I don’t get migraines anymore. They are just unbearable. It hurts so bad that I eventually just pass out from exhaustion from the pain. A regular headache I can ignore until it’s gone, but the bad ones…ugh. Sinus ones can be really bad too. I had a sinus infection a couple of weeks back and the first day the front of my head was pounding, I swear I could almost hear it.
When I was a kid I remeber getting some sort of simus infection that would cause pain with the slightest movement of my head. Sharp pain throughout. I distinctly rememebr my mom driving me to the hospital and every single bump in the car feeling like my head was melting from the inside.
Some of you may hate me, but, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve never had a headache. Of any sort. Not hungover. Not stressed out. Not with the flu. Not after being knocked out. Never.
The U of Minn was doing some research on headaches/migraines, and I called them to see if they wanted to run some tests on me to see why I’ve never had a headache, and they said, “Sure!”
They never called back.
Oh, well. I do get gout attacks.
I get sinus headaches that immediately trigger tension headaches. If left alone they meet up and create a migraine headache. The migraine headache starts off as a small headache that I use to ignore until I was able to recognize it for what it is. I have approximately 15 minutes to do something to stop the progression or it goes full-blown and I’m stuck with it for hours. I have a very specific regime involving Sudafed, ibuprofen and caffeine (preferably hot tea). I use a steam vaporizer which usually helps with the sinuses and I also use ice cubes on all the muscles around my head. Not only does the steam help the sinus passages it also seems to help by adding heat to the area.
It took years to develop a regime that works for me and I can use it successfully every time. The most important thing is to catch the migraine when it starts.
She’s about 5’9", dyes her hair strange colors. Met her in a bar and starting dating after a while. Eventually had her move in and next thing ya know, we’re buying property and stuff. Finally married her.
She has a tendency to spill Super-Extra-Giant Mega-Gulps of Dr. Pepper in damn near every vehicle we own. Thus the beverage ban in the BMW.
Couldn’t hang on to a pair of sunglasses if they were JB Welded to her face.
My migraines wake me up with an excrutiating pain behind the right eye. I lay in bed until nausea gets me up and into the bathroom. When the vomiting is over I lay as still as possible while the pain spreads until the entire right side of my head is involved. During that time I usually cry and sob from the pain. I have to have my room as dark as I can manage and any sound at all is enough to make me want to kill whatever made it—think of being insanely angry because your cat is stomping on the carpet. Once the pain has taken over the right side of my head I can begin taking medication—if I take it earlier, the vomiting starts again. Along with the medicine I apply an ice bag to the right side of my head. When the codeine* kicks in and my head goes numb from the ice bag I know I will survive. Up until that point, death is preferable. I’ve made many trips to various ERs for shots of Demerol–sort of like being bayonetted in the ass, but preferable to the migraine. I’ve run into walls because I missed the door; I’ve had to crawl to the bathroom because I couldn’t walk. My migraine headaches hurt really bad.
*My darling Marcie dispenses the codeine pills due to my history of addiction and abuse of codeine. She cries when I cry but she will not give me more than the doctor has specified. If I had the pills in my posession, I would take every one that I had.