Milo Girl
14-02-09, 16:02
Hi I haven't posted for a while as I was out of action after suffering a detached retina and could'nt use the computer for a while.
For nearly a week now I have been suffering from a headache. I have had headaches in the past and usually a couple of paracetamol or ibuprofen shift it pretty quickly. This time it seems different. It started on Monday and I thought it would pass. When it didn't I took some paracetamol and they didn't work so took ibuprofen and they didn't have any effect either.
The pain seems to move around a bit. Sometimes it feels like a tight band across the back of my head, and then it can also be in the temples feeling like a pressure. My neck also feels achy and a bit stiff (not so much though - I can touch my chin on my chest).
I thought I must be starting with a headcold as I had a few days earlier started with a dry soreish throat and a few sniffles and sneezes but a week later nothing seems to have materialised. I am still sneezing but not as much and the sniffles haven't developed further.
I am wondering if this is a tension headache. It seems to be there when I wake up although it doesn't wake me in the night.
I have felt very low recently probably as a result of having a spontaneous detached retina just before Christmas. Had to have emergency surgery and then had to get over the op pretty quickly as DH had to work away and so I had to look after kids and go back to work.
I am trying very hard not to google these symptoms but I am getting pretty worked up about the fact that I cannot shift this headache and whether constantly thinking about it is actually making it worse.
Has anyone else experienced this?
For nearly a week now I have been suffering from a headache. I have had headaches in the past and usually a couple of paracetamol or ibuprofen shift it pretty quickly. This time it seems different. It started on Monday and I thought it would pass. When it didn't I took some paracetamol and they didn't work so took ibuprofen and they didn't have any effect either.
The pain seems to move around a bit. Sometimes it feels like a tight band across the back of my head, and then it can also be in the temples feeling like a pressure. My neck also feels achy and a bit stiff (not so much though - I can touch my chin on my chest).
I thought I must be starting with a headcold as I had a few days earlier started with a dry soreish throat and a few sniffles and sneezes but a week later nothing seems to have materialised. I am still sneezing but not as much and the sniffles haven't developed further.
I am wondering if this is a tension headache. It seems to be there when I wake up although it doesn't wake me in the night.
I have felt very low recently probably as a result of having a spontaneous detached retina just before Christmas. Had to have emergency surgery and then had to get over the op pretty quickly as DH had to work away and so I had to look after kids and go back to work.
I am trying very hard not to google these symptoms but I am getting pretty worked up about the fact that I cannot shift this headache and whether constantly thinking about it is actually making it worse.
Has anyone else experienced this?