Chronic pain of any sort truly sucks and it can make it impossible to enjoy life.
I don't want to alarm you, but my late wife died of a brain tumour, and so that's what comes to my mind when someone talks about persistent, worsening headaches. The classic symptoms are waking up with a headache, the pain being so bad that it wakes you up in the night, and it not feeling like any headache you've ever had before. Have you had a scan to rule out a tumour?
Less dramatically, my current wife gets intermittent, severe headaches in the same place as you describe due to sinus problems. I understand that it can be difficult for doctors to distinguish between sinus headaches and migraines because many of the symptoms are the same. Does taking a decongestant help at all?
If what you have is indeed migraine, various things are known to trigger them, including (unfortunately) chocolate and alcohol. Estrogen is also known to make migraines more frequent and painful, so if you're a woman and on the contraceptive pill, that could possibly be something to look at.
IIN: to get a headache everyday
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Chronic pain of any sort truly sucks and it can make it impossible to enjoy life.
I don't want to alarm you, but my late wife died of a brain tumour, and so that's what comes to my mind when someone talks about persistent, worsening headaches. The classic symptoms are waking up with a headache, the pain being so bad that it wakes you up in the night, and it not feeling like any headache you've ever had before. Have you had a scan to rule out a tumour?
Less dramatically, my current wife gets intermittent, severe headaches in the same place as you describe due to sinus problems. I understand that it can be difficult for doctors to distinguish between sinus headaches and migraines because many of the symptoms are the same. Does taking a decongestant help at all?
If what you have is indeed migraine, various things are known to trigger them, including (unfortunately) chocolate and alcohol. Estrogen is also known to make migraines more frequent and painful, so if you're a woman and on the contraceptive pill, that could possibly be something to look at.