Headache for 35 days

[momofmeg]

I have had a headache for now 31 days in a row without any real relief.  It started out (I think) with a stiff neck- Couldn't touch chin to chest) and the same day I started with a headache.  They almost follow a pattern everyday, I wake up with it, it gets better after I'm up for awhile and almost gone into afternoon, but around 4 pm comes back and keeps going for the rest of the night (almost worse when I lay down).  I wake up in the middle of the night with it (which I never have done before). Headaches are common for me, but usually hormonal so I know when they are coming and I know when they will be gone for the most part.  This headache is different - most of mine are located at the front or sides of my head and this one is in the back to the top of my head.  I have taken muscle relaxers, migraine meds, prednisone (6 days) and more and more Skelaxin.  I started seeing a neurologist two weeks ago and he put me on the prednisone and skelaxin he also did a MRI (w/o contrast) that came back negative.  Over the past 7-8 days I have lost almost all taste and my mouth is super dry (wierd to explain), I have a tingling feeling in my bottom lip and there feels like pressure (almost like someone is squeezing) my arms off and on-- could have nothing to do with any of this.  My question after is.. any idea what I can do next for the headache and what the heck is causing the loss of taste.  I was wondering if one of the meds I was on could cause it?  I have been off Prednisone for 7 days. The Dr put me on Zanaflex nightly and I take at bedtime (for the past 3 nights) which has not helped.  Any help or thoughts is greatly appreciated.
Also, I'm 36 years old and in pretty good health, also have Hashimoto disease.

Thank you,

Deana

[Dr_Nassim]

it is not crazy dear, we cannot loose hope, possibilities are many, but if your ovaries were not touched by the surgeon no need to think about hormonal changes. Also now i have more info about you, thank you, because what you are deiscribing could be named cervical syndrome, starting in the neck muscles.. Did you tried any medication muscle relaxant-anxiolytic type? (a swiss made meds Deanxit is a good combinated drug for this need) also a type of physiotherapy compressive type is practiced on this trigger point for 1 hour daily and is capable of removing this cervical syndrome tension type headache.

Keep in touch

[jenib]

I suffered with headaches that lasted weeks at a time for 4 years. They always started at the base of my neck. I would get my husband to literally take his finger and dig as far as he could. I saw Dr after Dr and took everything imaginable trying to get some relief. O know this may sound crazy but I had a hysterectomy little over a year ago and have not had a migraine since.

[Dr_Nassim]

pseudotumor cerebri is much less probable.
Dr Nassim Abi Chahine

[Dr_Nassim]

do a lumbar puncture, this may be a viral meningitis, in this case a loss of taste is also present