I always thought I was one of those people who only panicked about “really strange and new sensations” and when I would see or hear about other health anxiety sufferers complaining about their headache worries...I would kind of shrug it off and think to myself “man that’s just a headache I wouldn’t worry about something like that, I WISH headache was all I had”
but here I am...absolutely convinced that my ongoing headache is something really sinister
I will preface this description with the fact that I have a 10 month old baby who still breastfeeds and has been having a rough time sleeping — which means I also have been having very abnormal sleep lately and haven’t been well rested. I will also note that I probably haven’t been drinking enough water. All of that being said — I feel like I have gone through similar bouts of lack of sleep, stress, not stellar hydration etc in the past but have never had an off and on headache quite this brutal. It comes and goes throughout the day. But it has been about a week and a half of this. It’s mostly in the front - forehead area and temples sometimes. I have 3 young children, I am stressed about covid, I am not sleeping well, and you would think I could just chalk these headaches up to that stuff but I cannot.
I just keep telling myself “this can’t be normal” and “this can’t be something simple” and of course “if it’s lasting this long I KNOW it’s something terrible because this has never happened to me”
but here I am...absolutely convinced that my ongoing headache is something really sinister
I will preface this description with the fact that I have a 10 month old baby who still breastfeeds and has been having a rough time sleeping — which means I also have been having very abnormal sleep lately and haven’t been well rested. I will also note that I probably haven’t been drinking enough water. All of that being said — I feel like I have gone through similar bouts of lack of sleep, stress, not stellar hydration etc in the past but have never had an off and on headache quite this brutal. It comes and goes throughout the day. But it has been about a week and a half of this. It’s mostly in the front - forehead area and temples sometimes. I have 3 young children, I am stressed about covid, I am not sleeping well, and you would think I could just chalk these headaches up to that stuff but I cannot.
I just keep telling myself “this can’t be normal” and “this can’t be something simple” and of course “if it’s lasting this long I KNOW it’s something terrible because this has never happened to me”