Pounding Headache during heavy benching last wednesday, it lingers til today, help?

[radagegi]

I've been benching the same weight (205lbs) for a year now, and it always feels heavy to me. I usually do 4 sets of 10 -10/9 -7 -5
Last wednesday I wasn't feeling well. I didn't have enough sleep the night before, I hadn't eaten anything the whole day, and I already had a mild headache to begin with. This calls for an injury.
While I was benching myself, I felt these jolts of headaches each time I benched, and I just kept going anyways since I have an OCD of finishing sets, otherwise I feel ****ty.
On my last 2 sets, the pain in my head were unbearable, but I bear through it.
I knew that was a bad idea.
A week after that, I still get bouts of headaches on the back of my head. Idk how to explain it. It's not an overwhelming pain or anything, it kind of feels like a migraine? (Never had a migraine, but from what I can tell, it kinda feels like it).
I went to the doc on Saturday, he told me if I had brain Aneursym, that would've been bad and I could die from it, but since I don't have any vision loss or nausea, he said it's a muscle strain on my head or my vessels contracted too hard or something.

I'm just worried. I don't wanna feel a sharp pain out of nowhere and die from a head injury (i've heard this happens to some people).

I mean I didn't bang my head or anything bad at all, I just benched, and I strained too hard.

It's been a week and the headache still lingers.
Help?

[Ball123]

This is nothing you need to worry about. You are just blessed with being very healthy and therefor you react when you feel pain.

I can tell you the same thing happens to me every time I try to lift something or even bend down to tie my shoes. It feels like my head or whole body will explode. It has been like this for more than a decade and I am still alive hehe.

If you would have had the most horrible headache you can ever imagine during straining than you should go to the ER because it can be a blood vessel leaking out blood in your brain. It doesn't have to be but better safe than sorry.

It doesn't sound like you had this since you could finish the set, no vomiting etc. So no need to worry really.

Your headache is probably migraine- or inflammation-like from the blood vessels complaining a bit about the blood pressure rise you put them through. This will pass and will give you no future harm.  But next time youfeel a lot of pain while straining, calm down. Be a bit nice to your body.

You can try normal headache meds if you want to. Work out at less than 100% the next weeks and increase gradually.

You will be alright.

Take care

[AKC_75]

Hi and welcome to the Migraines & Headaches Community.

I would go back to the Dr. and ask for some tests. I am not sure but I don't think they can rule out an Aneurysm without doing an MRI. And I would not lift weights til you get the test results (just my opinion).

That being said, yes, straining can both bring on a migraine and make a migraine you already have worse. And migraines can last for hours to days to weeks. So, it COULD be a migraine....sounds migraine-ish...but, I would still get tested to make sure it is not something more severe.

Please keep us posted and let us know what you find out!