severe pain in head

[melo126]

i got home from work i work only 3 hrs working at my business of 17 yrs. i was sitting drinking my green tea when a severe pain hit me so hard on the top of my head. put me down on the floor where i held my head. this lasted only 4 min. i then had to sit up and had help getting up. very dizzy and unbalanced and leaning to the left. this cleared up in about an hr, but weak upper body with burning pins and needles and very weak right side today. balance poor as usual. i am newly diagnosed dec2009 with minimun treatments with 300 glowing white lesions on my brain. im really frightened by this pain in head again it is not unusal but this one was the worse. i phoned my dr clinic but have not heard back. is this m.s related?

[mayperl]

I never, well, rarely ever get headaches.  Instead, I always get short stabbing pains in random spots over my head. Hard, sharp pains that make me grab my head and instinctively rub the spot because it is such a small area.  Feels like a skewer poking for a few seconds then goes away, and stabs again or in a different spot.  My Neuro said it was my MS and prescribed gabapentin.  So far, so good.  I dont take it daily, only when the pain is around for more than a day or two.  

[Deb61]

I have gotten a severe head pain, but it wasn't on top of my head.  It was like someone stabbing me with an ice pick above my left ear.  It was enough to through my head back when the head starts and bring tears to my eyes.  The intermittent pain kept me up all night for two nights, and it was horrible.  Later on during the week, I got the ice pick pain in the left side of my nostril.  

I called the doctor, and was prescribed a medicine.  The doctor later told me that it was  (excuse the spelling) trigemenial neuraligia.  I do not know if the nerves go to the top of the head or not.  I know there's much more knowledgeable people than myself that can help you figure this out.  If you don't hear back from your neuro, call back to ensure that your message wasn't lost.  I'd ask them also to see if you need to go to the ER if this happens again or see if it is indeed MS related and to wait it out.  This is a question for your doctor.  

Deb

[HVAC]

Could be a migraine or it could be something more serious only a Dr. can tell. I get bad migraines which take out my left side and vision in my left eye. The way I know they are migraines is they clear up once the migraine medications kick in. I had one so bad two weeks ago I threw up for seven hours. I laid on the bathroom floor barely able to rise to the toilet. The cold dry air is messing me up bad. I have a vaporizer, I am washing my sinuses with saline to bring down the swelling and putting vaseline in nose.

Alex

[Wobbly]

hope you heard back from the Dr... how are you now?
wobbly

[slightlybroken]

Geesh! I hope everything is OK. Keep us updated! I'm not sure if it is MS related.


I pretty much live with weakness on one side (left). I'm in limbo myself. I have a few doctors playing with an atypical presentation of MS diagnosis.


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