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Consttant headache ranging in intensity, BOB HILTON can you help plse.. ?

Consttant headache ranging in intensity, BOB HILTON can you help plse.. ?

Hi, i am 26 yr old female living in the uk..

8 weeks ago i had a migraine (i have about 5 a year) was on my right side (throbbing, took painkillers went to bed).. since then my right eye has black dots in (freind calls them floaters?) my hole head WAS tender to touch for about 6 weeks after migraine, my hole head still hurts but it varies in intensity pain scale constantly about an annnoying 5 dont need to take pain killers.. last friday i had another migraine on my left side (didnt throb) just really hurt started at the back of my head then radiated to my left temple and forehead, took painkillers then went to bed)

but im still left with these symptoms 8 weeks on!!:-

my right ear feels full and hurts, (no sign of infection)
my right eye also hurts, (seen opthomologist all is fine)
feels like i have a migraine all over (that burny feeling at the beggining of one ya know?, varies in intensity)
my neck also feels the same as my head.
now and again all my head will throb for a few seconds, (especially when i get up from sitting, my bp is fine)
constant black dots in my right eye (2 dots)

the past 4 days my nose has been running but its clearing up now..

i have been to the doctors seen 4, doctor on call gave me co-codomol, i went to casualty they checked my bloods done the follow my finger etc (all was ok)another looked at me like i was crazy and gave me migraleve, which helped the migraine, another took my bloods again (all came back fine), then another doctor looked at me and said you dont have a brain disease, you dont have a tumour you have severe anxiety because i been back and for, (yes ok a little worked up about this? i havent gone back since..

They are going by my records when my migraines first started 4 years ago i had an mri (with no contrast done), and 2 eeg's and they were normal!!

does anyone know what this could be? what can i do now? i am in the uk so its hard to get to see a doctor that doesnt know me..
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Hi,
   Floaters, are ment for those spots which take few minutes (rarely 60 min) then go away...what you have called scotomas, so you have to see  a Neuro-Ophthalmologist (I don't think you have this subspeciality in the UK ), or an opthalmologist who is specialised in retinal diseases.
   Regarding the constant headache , its hard to pin point which is which without examining you, but I think you either have entered the circle of rebound headache (analgesic induced) with these codeine contained meds which will require a supevised detoxification at least as an out patient plus a suitable prophylactic drug,  or you entered into a transformed migrain (your migraine became a chronic type rather than episodic) which require an admission to a hospital to abort it and start a prophylactic mesure...I always recommend a repeat neuroimaging in  any persistent headache and may do a spinal tap if psudotumor cerebri is suspected

    Hope this is helpful
  
    Bob  Hilton
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