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Intense But Brief Headaches?

A MyEpilepsyTeam Member asked a question 💭
Inverness, UK

Has anyone else experienced brief but really intense headaches? I find that I'll be doing something, then get this really intense pain in my head, usually only one side, that feels like a bubble of pressure moving around in my head, and it renders me completely incapable of doing anything: everything just stops for a minute. But it really is about a minute. It's like it reaches a sort of climax that makes me feel like my head might explode, then just disappears. Anyone else have anything like… read more

June 20, 2016
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Hi have you asked your doctor to check if you suffer with a form of migraine you can get a strong form of medication for it good luck take care .

June 23, 2016
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I get terrible headaches myself that can last for up to 2 days also sometimes but if I take the meds my doctor has got me on and laydown and put a icepack or one of those cold packs that u buy from the drugstore with the beads in it and put it on my head and rest it will usually go away I take Imitrex and gabapentin for Headaches I take the Gab 3 times a day and the Imitrex only at onset of headache I also take Ibuprofen sometimes and 1 seems to help when other don't

June 21, 2016
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I have cluster headaches. Mine will last anywhere from 15 minutes to 12 hours. Is the pain always in the exact same place? It sounds kind of like cluster headaches. You should probably talk to your doc. When mine hit, I am totally incapacitated.

June 20, 2016

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