#icepick headache

[shyyycatsblog]

Ugh, I was really hoping my icepick migraines were from my IIH and would go away after the shunt surgery, but right now, I'm getting one again 🫠 I hate these so much it feels like my skull is splitting open

[headpainmigraine]

So, I've just started increasing my dosulepin to 3, after 14 days on 1 and then 14 days on 2.

I think it's had an okay effect on my migraines (I don't think my neuro will agree), but lately I've been getting these weird headaches

They're always on my left hand side, incidentally the same side I keep getting the supraorbital nerve pain

they're located like an inch above my ear, in the place between the corner of my eye and my ear

they feel like I'm getting a cramp in my brain, like a twist of really deep pain that comes out of nowhere and lasts for 15-30 seconds before releasing and then just leaves an ache

kinda feels like a toothache in my head

It's not a stabbing/piercing pain, so I don't think it's an ice pick headache (I've had those too)

and it's not like the nerve pain, so I don't think it's cluster headaches (surely they'd hurt more? unless I'm just used to it because daily migraines have mucked with my experience of pain?)

But I don't know what else it could be.

I'm still taking sertraline, just in the mornings now and the dosulepin in the evening, and that's the only med change I had before this started happening

Has anyone ever experienced anything like this, and what did it turn out to be?

I thought maybe 'brain zaps' because dosulepin is an antidepressant, but I've never had that coming off an antidepressant before, I'm not coming off any of them, and I've never felt them, so I don't know if this is what they're like?

They make my head ache, they make me feel nauseous and sometime I feel it in my neck/shoulder on the left side, but not enough that I'd think it was a muscle spasm thing

Does ANYONE know what this could be, or has anyone felt anything like it before?

I'm still waiting on an MRI appointment, but it's freaking me the math out, man

[vsgsaline]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with ice pick headaches?

[starsinmypocketpussy]

it's saturday night so you know it's time for the icepick headache and throbbing eyeball party

[ydecelis18]

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