pain so severe... felt as if each hair follicle...

Question: pain so severe... felt as if each hair follicle...

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Hello, in the past week I have had 2-3 bouts of chronic pain, like a migraine. which I get at least , 1-3 a month..... anyways the other day the pain was so severe I didn't and have never had this happen, it felt as though each piece of hair follicle was being pulled straight up and a long thin pin stuck in and all over the top and right side and back of my head and pain behind the right eye mostly but some behind the left eye too. I took every pain pill I could find, put cold compress and heat compress on it. The severe pain lasted over 3 hrs... It was not like any other migraine I have ever had, but scared me because my head is still sore ... if I touch certain spots on my head the best way to describe the pain now is like a "black and Blue" injury...no crashes, no falls, this just came on suddenly and the pain is excruciating ... especially the way the skull feels like pins being stuck all over the head and hurts to even move my hair. I just pushed on my temples and laid down with hot/cold compresses...but it still did not go a way for about 3 hours...and it is still sitting there for 3 days now, as if to say...I am coming back soon...please try and explain what this could be... I have 100 mg Imitrex... Is this like a broken blood vessel or aneurysm (spelling?). Do I need to monitor this or forget it.. I have no health insurance.... So outside of OTC medical treatments and the 3-4 Imitrex and some OxyContin I have left from when I had medical insurance (I have high blood pressure, mitral valve prolapse...back surgeries L5/S1, T5,6,7 and 2 knee surgeries, a bladder sling that resulted in peritonitis within 1 week, causing me to have six fix it surgeries.....and blurred vision, with headaches, and now I have been dropping things, and have numbness on bottom of the feet and in arms and hands.... please help.

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Dear Nancy,

As much as we'd love to be able to help you, the truth is you need to see a doctor, and you need to see one immediately. You should have gone to a doctor or the ER the other day when the pain got so severe. That's a standard procedure for a Migraineur -- if you experience head pain more severe than any you have ever experienced before or unexplained and unusually severe symptoms, get to the doctor or ER because it may or may NOT be a Migraine. Only a doctor who can review your history and symptoms and examine you can tell you what's going on. That's one of the problems we as Migraineurs face. The same symptoms that are produced by Migraines can also be produced by other, more serious conditions.

Believe me, I'm not ignoring what you said about not having insurance. I spent ten years living by myself, in a low-paying job with no medical insurance. I do know what it's like, but nobody can diagnose you or give you medical advice on this via the Internet.

I saw Sharon Stone on Oprah not too long ago. She has Migraines, and was telling about what she thought was a terrible Migraine. She called her ex husband to come take her to the doctor. He was out, so she left him a message. Then, she was so disoriented by the pain, that she wandered around her house for three days because he was out of town and it took him that long to get her message. It turned out that she had an aneurysm, and if he had been any later getting her to the hospital, she would have died. Her comment was, "If you have the worst headache you've ever had, go to the hospital because by the time you get to the hospital, you're as far gone as you wanna be." Nancy, the chances that you have an aneurysm are slim, but you need to be safe and see a doctor.

So, please see a doctor. Then, PLEASE let me know how you are?

take care of yourself!
Teri Robert

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