robotsailor
29-07-22, 12:21
I'm a huge hypochondriac for myself, but now I'm worrying about my dad and it's just as bad
He's 70, pretty fit and healthy, good diet, minor lung issues from childhood and back issues from working blue collar jobs. His recent problem is related to glaucoma and eye pressure, he had eye surgery a month ago for that and has had many ophthalmologist checkups this month.
Lately he's had a headache in the back of the head, almost where the neck meets the skull. It extends around like a headband. It's sensitive to touch. He says it doesn't 100% go away, more so that it becomes way less painful but it's still lingering.
It responds pretty well to ibuprofen, to the point where he goes back to normal and is content. It does not respond at all to sumatriptan 50g (he stole some from me because I have chronic migraines, but from my mothers side)
Today he stole another triptan at 7 am while I was asleep because he had another headache, 30 minutes later he had a stomach ache, cold sweats and nausea when moving his head to the sides. It's starting to calm down now (6 hours later) but his stomach is still upset and he's not hungry, not even for his favorite meal. In the sumatriptan pamphlet all these symptoms do appear as frequent side effects, which calms me down a bit. However I'm terrified it's not a side effect from that, that it's actually part of his original headache and the pill was a coincidence in timing.
I've had my own BT fears before due to migraine, and I remember stiff necks being a bad sign. I'm not sure if he has a stiff neck but the whole getting dizzy when moving side to side freaks me out. That and that they're morning/early afternoon headaches.
He's gone to a neurologist and has done an MRI but this was all yesterday so the results aren't in yet. My only hope is that if it were any sort of intercranial pressure that the ophthalmologists would have had to spotted it... but I'm not sure if it works that way
He's 70, pretty fit and healthy, good diet, minor lung issues from childhood and back issues from working blue collar jobs. His recent problem is related to glaucoma and eye pressure, he had eye surgery a month ago for that and has had many ophthalmologist checkups this month.
Lately he's had a headache in the back of the head, almost where the neck meets the skull. It extends around like a headband. It's sensitive to touch. He says it doesn't 100% go away, more so that it becomes way less painful but it's still lingering.
It responds pretty well to ibuprofen, to the point where he goes back to normal and is content. It does not respond at all to sumatriptan 50g (he stole some from me because I have chronic migraines, but from my mothers side)
Today he stole another triptan at 7 am while I was asleep because he had another headache, 30 minutes later he had a stomach ache, cold sweats and nausea when moving his head to the sides. It's starting to calm down now (6 hours later) but his stomach is still upset and he's not hungry, not even for his favorite meal. In the sumatriptan pamphlet all these symptoms do appear as frequent side effects, which calms me down a bit. However I'm terrified it's not a side effect from that, that it's actually part of his original headache and the pill was a coincidence in timing.
I've had my own BT fears before due to migraine, and I remember stiff necks being a bad sign. I'm not sure if he has a stiff neck but the whole getting dizzy when moving side to side freaks me out. That and that they're morning/early afternoon headaches.
He's gone to a neurologist and has done an MRI but this was all yesterday so the results aren't in yet. My only hope is that if it were any sort of intercranial pressure that the ophthalmologists would have had to spotted it... but I'm not sure if it works that way