Ok, so this may be a dumb question, but nobody will help me with an answer so I turn to the internet. I have a cavernous angioma in the brainstem. I have a venous malformation in the front temporal lobe. I have also been fighting what appears to be a serious cold for a few days. Today as I am coughing my head hurts so bad. I am feeling very seizure like also after a coughing fit. Is this cough hurting me and if so, what should I be doing? After all, its just a cold right?