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headache nausea

I have been feeling very dizzy with severe headaches.  I also have had a n upset stomach but no vomiting and i can eat normal.  It is mainly my head i have tried everything i can and nothing seems to touch my headache.  I wake up feeling the same way i went to bed.  It has been week now and no changes.  Any suggestions as to what it is or what to do?
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351246 tn?1379682132
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Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
If you have headaches and hot flashes and lightheadedness with a feeling of passing out, you could be having either polycystic ovarian disease (in females) or gastric reflux (GERD) with or without H pylori infection. These are the two conditions to be ruled out first. If you use computer a lot or read a lot then the symptoms of headache, dizziness, neck pain, numbness etc could be due to compression of the spinal nerves in the cervical spine region. This can happen due to overuse of computers, work involving straining of neck, herniated disc, canal stenosis, bone disease, spondylosis, poor posture etc. A MRI of the cervical spine and nerve conduction studies may be required. Please consult a neurologist. Physiotherapy will help you and hence you should learn neck exercises to relieve neck strain. Get your blood pressure checked. This can also cause headache with dizziness. TMJ is another possibility. If you have been out in sun a lot or drink less of fluids then it can also be due to electrolyte imbalance or dehydration. Benign intracranial hypertension also causes dizziness with headache and a spinal tap is confirmatory. It can be a migraine attack too. Other conditions to be strongly ruled out in your case could be Meniere’s disease of the ear, wax in the ear, infection of the middle or inner ear, and benign positional vertigo. Hence it is important to consult an ENT specialist and a neurologist too.
Since I cannot examine you and know other related conditions you may be having, nor is a detailed history possible on net, I have listed the various possibilities that should be looked into. Please consult your PCP for primary examination followed by proper referral.
Take care!
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1801688 tn?1315976500
The trademark for migraines is that OTC pain medicine doesn't usually touch it at all, sleep doesn't always help, severe headache for more than 4 hours, and nausea without vomiting. Go see your normal doctor and they will probably prescribe some stronger pain medicine and may recommend you see a neurologist. For me, the stronger pain meds didn't really work. They decreased the severity of the headache but the pain was still there even though I was kinda stoned.
Without medicine, what helps me is laying down in total darkness and complete quiet with a cold, damp wash cloth on my face. Watching TV or being on the computer a lot may cause eye strain that makes the headache worse.
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sounds like a pretty severe migrane you need to go to a doctor for some very strong pain relief medication and my advice is lay down in bed in q very dark quiet room and sleep and sip very cold water every few minutes no huge gulps because its just going to come back up try some lucozade
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