Evil Headaches

[louzer]

I am a 21 year old male computational biology undergrad and I've had unbearable headaches for the last  >10 years. Frequency is: one headache every ~45 days. Duration of each headache is exactly 5 days long. It always happen on the left temple, inside/just below my left eye and behind my head. I hear clicking sounds similar to the sounds of dripping water from inside my eye when I have the headaches.

If I take alcohol/paracetamol/mefenamic acid or nimesulide, the pain goes away for a few hours and comes back later when they wear out. The pain can wake me up from my sleep. Each pain episode makes me depressed. I have considered of suicide before because of the pain, but I figured out that I might as well live up this nightmare called 'life' like watching a horror movie instead of walking away from the theatre.

I have tried to isolate patterns and triggers that cause these headaches, but I haven't found any besides time.

I hate light, sound and people when I get the headaches. So for the last 1 year I am nocturnal and sleep 4 A.M - 11 A.M even if I miss my classes. My university doctor thinks I have the headaches because I am faking/paranoid/drug seeking or because of sleep deprivation. When I tried to describe how I've had the same headaches even before I started doing the nocturnal life style, he blamed me for circular logic/reasoning.

Other Unrelated Stuff I need to say:
1. When I was 5 I had measles. After measles I used to have really bad sinusitis which used cause a lot of headache/eyeache.My parents preferred homeopathy. They didn't seem to work so the pain remained worse for a long time. In those days it was unbearably painful on my eyebrows and forehead. My nose was always stuffed, and my eye balls ached when I moved them. When I reached puberty sinusitis was gone.

2. When I was 13, my 4 year old younger brother hit my head with a mic and I've had a small deformation on right parietal part of the skull. They took me to a homeopathic doctor who asked them to observe me for a few days. Since I did not show any abnormalities after the incident the deformation was considered benign.

3. When I was 12 I fractured two bones of my left hand. There was lots of blood & pain, and one bone came out a bit, so the doctors put a steel implant in. They removed the implant after an year because another doctor found out that the implant was a bit long and into my wrist and preventing me from moving it.

4. Occasionally I hear hissing sounds in my ears. I didn't take it seriously until I realized that my friends didn't have that. The hissing sounds are not like the clicking sounds mentioned above. They don't seem to be correlated to the times when I have headaches.

My Question: What should I do about my headache?

[noops01]

Hi,
Your symptoms of one sided headaches and photosensitivity suggest the possibilty of migraine. You can NSAIDS like ibuprofen because they work very well in migraine. If there is no improvement, please consult a neurologist.Please be positive as there are a lot of treatment options available for migraine. Take care!

[louzer]

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