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(Message started by: BarbaraD on Apr 18^th, 2007, 9:50am)

Title: My head's sore...
Post by BarbaraD on Apr 18^th, 2007, 9:50am

For some reason my head is sore on the cluster side. I'm not getting hit, but my head is just sore as the devil, like someone hit me. It hurts to touch it.

Does anyone else have this happen. I've been on topamax for over a month and haven't really been hit since I went on it, but I'm still getting an ear ache and my head is really sore. I just don't remember this ever happening before.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by chrisw on Apr 18^th, 2007, 9:58am

That always happens to me. Even after hits stop, my temple area aways stays sore to the touch for weeks afterward. Its like the beast is telling my not to let my guard down, because he is still in there just waiting for his chance to strike again. During cycles, that area is very sore .

chrisw

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by vietvet2tours on Apr 18^th, 2007, 10:01am

on 04/18/07 at 09:58:53, chrisw wrote:

Yep what he said.

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Kevin_M on Apr 18^th, 2007, 10:11am

Check to see if there is a pea under your fluffy feather mattress near the headboard.

Is it the side you mostly use for tax figurin' too.

j/k

I've had that very infrequently but only at times I was getting hit often and it lasted a little while. Don't know Barb, without getting hit maybe it is a muffled affect of a phantom hit or a reaction of sensitized nerves endings on that side. Is it warm?

on 04/18/07 at 09:41:42, BarbaraD wrote:

My little Caleb (5 years old) knows when Granny starts rubbing her ear she needs her O2

on 04/18/07 at 09:50:23, BarbaraD wrote:

I'm still getting an ear ache and my head is really sore. I just don't remember this ever happening before.

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Maybe it is an earache. Have you been bathing in the Nile River?

luvya Barb.

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Guiseppi on Apr 18^th, 2007, 10:41am

Same Barb, on cycle I have that constant ache like someone sucker punched me with a round house. Glad to hear the topo's helping you!

Guiseppi

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by swimchica623 on Apr 18^th, 2007, 11:41am

I get a sore ache like a what I call "regular person's headache" and also feel like I've been sunburned right on my temple.

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Shedz on Apr 18^th, 2007, 12:05pm

My head usually feels tender and achey for the duration of my cycle.

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Gator on Apr 18^th, 2007, 12:47pm

My cluster side sometimes gets sore around my temple, eye and upper jaw like that after getting pounded with attack after attack for a while, kind of like now, but not any other time.

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Sandy_C on Apr 18^th, 2007, 1:39pm

Not unusual at all for me either, when in cycle. My right temple (cluster side) is very sore to the touch during the cycle, and for several days after the cycle ends. Like Chris said, don't let my guard down just yet.

Hope you feel better soon. PF wishes and hugs.

Sandy

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by George_J on Apr 18^th, 2007, 1:46pm

After a really bad attack, I often have residual pain and "headache hangover" for several hours. It doesn't last for the duration of the cycle, though.

Sounds like it sucketh, Barb.

Best,

George

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by BarbaraD on Apr 18^th, 2007, 1:49pm

It's not really at the temple, but in the top of my head. When I brush my hair I do it very gently. I've had hangovers that had this effect, but those were all over my head not just in one spot. Guess Mr. Demon is just letting me know he hasn't forgotten me.

And I took the calculator out from under my pillow -- maybe the sore spot will get better now ;)

Hugs BD

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Sandy_C on Apr 18^th, 2007, 4:45pm

Barb, don't worry about the calculator - check for the pea!

Seriously, My scalp on the right side will sort of tingle, itch, when I shampoo. This is not when I'm in cycle, but, over the years I've learned to recognize this feeling that is is usually the beginning of another cycle.

This is my "signal". The cycle may not start for a week or two, but, inevitably it does start.

I think that the nerve endings in our scalp, and temple areas are so very sensitive, that they know beforehand that bad things are going to happen. I trust those little sensitive thingamabobs. So far, they've never failed.

Bottom line....I don't shampoo as often as I should.

;;D

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by kcopelin on Apr 18^th, 2007, 6:04pm

I can relate, Barbara. My head stays sore most of the time. Maybe I'll get some of that hot pepper stuff and rub it on my scalp. Or not. ::)
Sorry you're going through this though. Sandy, you crack me up [smiley=laugh.gif]

PFDAN y'all,
kathy

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by ClusterChuck on Apr 18^th, 2007, 6:11pm

on 04/18/07 at 09:50:23, BarbaraD wrote:

my head is just sore as the devil, like someone hit me. It hurts to touch it.

Quit using your teeth, then he won't hit you up the side of the head ...

Chuck

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Kevin_M on Apr 18^th, 2007, 6:18pm

LMFAO!

You two are a romance novel like Marge and Homer doing "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf".

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Samiam on Apr 18^th, 2007, 8:00pm

Funny you said that Barb, That's why I stopped the topamax because of my head becoming so sore. I felt like someone slammed my head with a hammer one week after starting the med. I had to stop.

Hope you feel better soon,
Sami

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by Rosybabe on Apr 19^th, 2007, 6:39pm

Barb, my scalp is sore too, and not only during cycle, I think is sore all the time, maybe the nerves endings in my head are tender after having so much pain ...when I go to have my hair done I normally comb my hair myself and then I let the lady cut it..I just can't stand someone touching my head period, not even for a massage.

Title: Re: My head's sore...
Post by pieface_49 on Apr 19^th, 2007, 9:27pm

Hello Barb,
The temple sore to the touch. The scalp/hair a little sore to the touch. The front and back of the head may be sore to the touch, especially the front. Remember pressing certain spots on the forehead and it being sore and causing pain. The neck/shoulders sore. Only after a bad hit. Once the hit is over, the rest comes into play, not before. 3 weeks after the cycle ended, am just getting relief from the aforementioned. My last cycle I had no drugs to help me get through until the end. Misdiagnosed for 4 years. Indocin may have helped me at the end of the cycle. Perhaps ended the cycle? It is hard to say.
Perhaps the topamax helped, but did not stop the rebound headache?
There are no warnings concerning taking Topamax and the symptoms you describe. http://headaches.about.com/od/medicationprofiles/a/topamax_profile.htm

Donnie