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Headaches every Thursday for a month

Started 1 November 2024 · 21 replies · 220 hearts · read 3.5k times

GwenBangor, UK · 1 November 2024
1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Headaches every Thursday for a month Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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PersisBristol, UK
#1

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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LarkGalway, IE
#3

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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BrammyBelfast, NI
#4

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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VivLuton, UK
#5

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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MaudGhent, BE
#6

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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BrimHalifax, UK
#7

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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RaviLeicester, UK
#8

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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CasperOdense, DK
#9

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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NilsUppsala, SE
#10

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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PeggyRotherham, UK
#11

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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PerrinNice, FR
#12

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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OsipTbilisi, GE
#13

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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MarenBremen, DE
#14

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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BaySt Ives, UK
#15

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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NadirCasablanca, MA
#16

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#17

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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NanNeath, UK
#18

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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GwenBangor, UK
#19

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#20

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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HéloïseGeneva, CH
#21

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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