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Thyroid medicine and pressure headache?

Does Synthroid (or Levo) ever cause a sever pressure headache at the back of the brain?  I am a healthy 27 yr old who has taken these meds for hypothyroid for 3 years.  At least once a year (only since taking the meds) I have experienced a sudden building pressure/pain that feels like it is at the back of my brain/head in two sections.  (It happened twice on a days when I forgot to take my meds and once when I had taken it.)  It feels like the kind of thing where pressure keeps building and may burst or something.  When I am almost to the point of asking someone to take me to the hospital it goes away.  It never lasts more than a few minutes.  What is this?  Should I be worried?
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This would be unusual for thyroid meds.  A neurologist may help identify the cause.
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Don't know that it's caused by the meds.  I had one headache like that before I got the thyroid diagnosis.  The headache lasted 3 months, 24/7.  Yep, pressure is the word to describe it.

Now it will only return when the meds need adjusting. I could be headache free going to bed, but when my head touches the pillow the pressure builds.

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