Scott - Didn’t you say you were taking a lot of aspirin? You might be in rebound hell. 
MA,
Yes, I’ve considered this and have stopped the aspirin for about 3 days now. I think rebound can take a week to go away if it is rebound. I’ve also had some weird viral illness the last 7 days. Started off with a grungy throat and being hoarse in the mornings but never turned int a cold. I’m very aware how viruses ratchet up head pain for me. I hope that’s the case right now and this more recent acute episode burns out soon.
I’m taking it very easy today lying in bed doing nothing apart from reading.
S
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I’m taking it very easy today lying in bed doing nothing apart from reading.
S
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Maybe park yourself on your balcony and get some of today’s glorious winter sunshine. Hope you feel better soon slugger.
Vic
Scott: that really stinks about the constant headache. I can’t even imagine what that must be like. Trouble with doctors’ beliefs is one thing, but bad headaches are another… I’ll take the former over the latter any day. I hope your headache improves (and your virus, too) soon.
Mary Alice: yeah, it took me a long time to find out that my “nose headaches” (minor ones), which I always vaguely attributed to “sinuses” were indeed migraines. (And I didn’t learn it from a doctor, but from knowledgeable people on a dizziness forum.) I ridiculously attributed everything, including what I’m now sure was an attack of trigeminal neuralgia, on “sinuses.” Even though I never had any true sinus trouble in my life! Even just yesterday morning, waking up with a “nose headache,” I just kept thinking it had to do with stuffiness or lying down… but I’m sure it must have been a (mild) migraine. (Had MSG the night before–aha! I think I just discovered another possible trigger for me.)
How strange that your mother went her whole life not knowing she was a migraineur. But if you don’t have that visual aura, you can sure be fooled (as I was until I got an aura).
Thanks everyone else too, for all the replies!
Nancy - What’s especially sad about my Mom’s situation is that she developed a severe dizziness problem at the EXACT same age I did but never knew what hit her. I found out the hard way that the hormone rollercoaster of perimenopause was to blame - I didn’t find out right away, and it’s so scary while you’re going through all the tests, and I’m sure she went through some of the same fear. Only I didn’t even know about her dizziness at the time because I was away at college and we weren’t on the best of terms then (I was very left leaning, and she loved Nixon et al). Few phone calls, mostly letters, and the dizziness never came up. It was only after she was gone that my younger brother told me about her dizziness when I started going through all the medical stuff for my dizziness - he was still living at home at the time when it started for her. He recalls how she had to crawl on her hands and knees to get to the bathroom from her bedroom in the morning because she was too dizzy to walk.
Fortunately, we reconciled and I was very involved in helping my Dad take care of her in her later years. My dizziness hit after she died.
Mary Alice–that’s so sad that your mom went through all that, the fear and the testing, without finding out what she had. It’s good that you reconciled later, though, and you were there for her in later years.
Interestingly, my aunt apparently had days of “dizzy spells” during her life, and no one figured it out (or apparently cared to, including herself–“oh, she’s just having one of her dizzy days,” the family would say). I don’t know whether she was a migraineur or not. But I do know she was diagnosed with epilepsy quite late in life, after falling and hitting her head, IIRC. My mother was a BAD migraineur, so it’s very possible my aunt was one, too, without knowing it.
Nancy