Go to the doctor. A severe headache for 3 days can be many things, and some of them are bad.
Hope you feel better soon.
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05-01-2009, 08:49 AM #1
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05-01-2009, 10:06 AM #2
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Yep, definitely doctor time.
Hope you feel better soon!Lisa
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05-01-2009, 11:28 AM #3
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+1 on the doctor, but in the meantime, have you considered dehydration? Try slamming a couple of liters of your favorite electrolyte replacement beverage and see if it helps.
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05-01-2009, 01:14 PM #4
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Try a decongestant. Sometimes the sinus are clogged with no symptoms except for the headache. Hope it goes away soon.
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05-01-2009, 02:36 PM #5
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I also say GO TO THE DOCTOR. I get headaches that last anywhere from 3 to 7 days. After an MRI, ENT doctor, allergist, a variety of migraine meds, my doctor sent me to a neurologist. He set me up with a couple of different prescriptions - sometimes one works, sometimes the other works, sometimes neither one helps. My doc keeps threatening me with a preventative, which I'd have to take every single day. NO THANKS! Oh, and my chiropractor tried, and a friend lent me a magnet neck wrap.
Anyhow, get it checked out. Especially if it has happened more than once. It is allergy season now, so maybe that will be the issue. It is far better to rule out the nasty stuff, and find out that it is something minor.
Also, +1 on dehydration. And the sinuses.
The neurologist told me that there is an entire spectrum of headaches, ranging from the classic tension headache to the classic migraine, and most people fall somewhere in between.
Good luck.
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05-01-2009, 02:45 PM #6
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Decongestant is working, I should have thought of that before. Unfortunately my brain hurt so I wasn't thinking that well.
Hopefully there's an end to it.
I used to get headaches all the time when I was late teens to 20-something, but they went away. So this was pretty unusual. I should have known from the pressure-right-at-the-crown-of-the-head thing, I always get that when it's a sinus headache.
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05-02-2009, 09:15 AM #7
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Be careful taking a decongestant and thinking it is helping. I did that years ago and it ended up I was masking high blood pressure! I had moved from New Jersey to Florida and started having headaches and everyone said it must be a pollen or something that I wasn't accustomed to. A year later, decongestants no longer worked and I finally went to the doc and found out I had h.b.p. One of the dumbest things I've ever done in my life.
Not saying that's your problem... just be cautious about self-treating too much :-)----------------------------------------------------
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