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DarthMetaKnight
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15 Jun 2010, 2:28 pm

Somethimes I get really bad headaches - although it feels more like my brain is hurting. It feels like someone is pouring acid on my brain. This feeling is often accompanied by the feeling that my eyes are reddening and bleeding, making me close my eyes out of near reflex.
Know what I mean?



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15 Jun 2010, 3:58 pm

No, but I sympathise. Mine are more large-spike-driven-into-right-eyeball, and I've had a great improvement on a low dose of amitryptiline (however the damn thing is spelled) but it doesn't sound similar. :? Have you talked to your doctor about them?


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15 Jun 2010, 4:44 pm

This could very well be a need for glasses. If you already got glasses maybe your prescription is wrong.
Futhermore, try to notice if this happens when you have been doing specific things.
For example, you could have been doing close-up work the last couple of hours, and this causes eye strain if your prescription is off.
It could also be distance viewing, it can be the lighting, and it doesn't have to do with the eyes, it can also be the way you sit (body-position).

I have suffered from very bad headaces every day from I was 10 up till 15 years old, because I used a lot of time in front of my computer i bad positions.
If you have to sit a long time on a chair, remember to change position very often.



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15 Jun 2010, 6:38 pm

I get those. I get them both as a reaction to allergy exposure (mold) or as a reaction to Nasonex. A doctor told me excedrin migraine would work.



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16 Jun 2010, 5:11 am

I've got some pretty bad headaches too. I would even go as far as saying I've had a headache every waking moment of my life since I was like 7. I got glasses when I was 8 so no correlation there I think. Does happen more when I'm stressed out (which honestly I always am to a degree). I've had MRIs done, seen a neurologist, etc. Only known allergies are to dust and chlorine (or something in water, me and my mom figured this out because she noticed that I broke out every time I got in a pool or showered when I was 12). When I started posting this it was primarily on the left side of my head but oddly enough it's my right temple now.