Daily headaches from hell-help needed

I would go back to your GP and try to get a referral to a neurologist my husband suffered with cluster headaches and it took nearly 4 years to be correctly diagnosed and treated

As a long-standing migraine sufferer (I'm still waiting to grow out of it, as I was told I would when I was 11yo) I'd agree that you really must go back to the GP and get referred for more investigations.

Even if it turns out to be nothing untoward, it still needs managing to allow you to live a normal, painfree life.

I don't want to alarm you but the symptoms you describe sound very much like Giant Cell Arteritis (also known as Temporal Arteritis) and should be investigated pronto, just in case. Untreated, this condition can cause loss of eyesight. If you can't get rid of it with painkillers, head for A&E. If properly diagnosed a high dose of a steroid soon alleviates the pain.

As has been suggested, you do need to go back to your GP and ask for a referral. If all else fails, go to a different GP, you really should not be left to suffer like this. Hope you re soon feeling better.

Chronic teeth-grinding, jaw-clenching, and neck / shoulder tension can cause this. And you won't necessarilly be aware of these habits at all.

The age-related diagnosis is rubbish. Your GP is fobbing you off and you need to have this investigated so do go back and demand it.

Meanwhile try some neck and shoulder exercises and, very important, make sure you are well-hydrated. Both of these actions have got rid of my headaches.

It does sound as though further investigation is needed.

My migraine treatment is a lorezepam and sleep it off!

Please don’t let your GP just fob you off with an ‘age’ thing ask for a referral or at least a second opinion and see your optician too they are brilliant at sending you for further tests
There is nothing worse than something you go to bed with and wake up with Really feel for you

Kentish you have all my sympathy and more !
Not having been a headdachey -sic person as soon as I hit 50 and the menopause, wham !

I was awakened every morning at about 3am with the most excruciating pain I'd ever experienced. I'd rather have had a dozen babies than go through that again.

I was downing paracetamols like sweets but they had no effect on the pain. I was banging my head on the wall then turning up for work like a wet rag.
After 7 weeks of it I finally went to the GP who had me admitted to hospital then I was transferred to the neurological hospital. Scans,tests galore-----nothing so the neuro-surgeon said it was a problem with the " basement and not the attic " which he dealt with.

Back to the GP who prescribed Dixarit but they were making me too drowsy for work so I started buying migraleve and they weren't doing much either ,so in the end I took Imigran.

The thing was, when I got these migraines they made me heave/wretch and after that happened the migraine went-----only to return again at 3am ?
They went on for a few years with the same pattern of the early hours.

I actually went on a long-haul flight after having been up half the night-----how I did it I'll never know but I just dosed myself up to the hilt.

I remember taking 2 paracetamol every 2 hours ! I got to a stage I couldn't have cared less so long as the pain went and didn't return.

They did go as quickly as they'd come on and fortunately I haven't suffered a headache since, in years. It's a miracle I'm here at all with all that I took. Honestly I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy------and I can withstand pain.

I had this once and it was stress. When I changed my job the pain went away. I would, however, ask if you can be referred to the hospital and see the optician.

Please go back to your GP and ask for a referral for investigation do not leave it.

Oh you poor thing, I think your GP needs to be doing a lot more for you, I take you have been seen by an optician?