CHRONIC HEADACHES

[Sifter1978]

HYA! i went to my mum and dads, on friday afternoon... by saturday afternoon i had developed a killer of a headache.... aspirins...paracetamol...nuro fen did absolutely nothing to help it. i also state that im an epileptic though the medicine i take for that SOMETIMES gives me headaches.... i returned back to my house this afternoon.... and within a few hours the headache has gone. my mother thinks that it could be to do with there central heating... (as they have it on all the time) we have central heating but keep it on a timer ( so its off when noone is in the house) DOES anyone know if central heating like this can cause headaches??? it sounds kinda silly to me, but cant ignore the fact that when i come back over to my house the headache is gone!!

[MG]

maybe "they" were the cause of your headache?? (just kidding)

[Headtime]

I think the central heating could have been the cause of your headache. I know that if I stay in an 'always on' centrally heated house, my sinus's hurt and I feeled bunged up in the nasal department.

[PurplePixie]

You may have thought about this, but I thought it important to mention anyway. Do your parents have any gas appliances that could be leaking carbon monoxide? It happened to me...so I remember the vile headaches very well. I used to feel awful & then better when I went out. Transco came & checked the boiler & told me it was lethal...I could have died. Scary, but I thought I should mention it just incase x

[Sifter1978]

no. they werent the cause of it ha! as far as the carbon monoxide.. i think it's kinda unlikely... i'd surely not be the only sufferer. ny daughter was with me friday to monday..and she had no complaint of headache(bearing in mind shes a constant whinger lol she would have mentioned something!)

[Sifter1978]

it's not a "sinus" type headache... more like a searing pain.. i dare say neuralgia... but the medicine for my epilepsy, can also be used to treat neuralgia!!!!

[Lindy Loo]

It could well be the dry and stuffy atmosphere that caused the problem. We've had the heating on more in the last couple of days, and the same has happened to me. Once I've been out in the 'fresh air' it cleared. The other possibility is a bug going around.

[sweetnsexy]

hey jus too much heat i would say but maybe u could get magnetic braclet as weird as it sounds they are really good for headaches and migrains as well as stress not sayin you parents stress you out or anyting lol but they do work so check it out. x

[zgma]

Perhaps it's a reaction to something in their house that's triggered by the heat? Dust mites or something?

[SGKelloe32]

I suffer from migraines, could this be the cause of your headaches? Most pain killers will do nothing to get rid of them! There are different severities of migraines, some only last a few hours, some last days. Some aren't as painful as others. Look out for an inability to bear light, flashes of light in the eyes, numbness in your body, (particularly hands) feeling nauseous and actually being sick, speech being slurred. These are all the warning signs of a most severe migraine, which is what i get. But it sounds to me like you may of had a mild migraine, as my dad suffers from those type, A few hours sleep is usually the only way to get rid of them. Also common triggers are, stress, missing meals, eating chocolate, cheese, bananas, oranges, caffeine or drinking things like coke. I hope you find out what is causing the headache. If it happens again, go to your gp.

[Sifter1978]

im a coffee fiend... but as for the rest.. inly in very slight moderation. i actually started having migraines prior to me first ever having seizures.....

apart from after ive had a fit, ive never had a headache like it!

im going back to theres on friday... it might not be such a good test as saturday i'll be in amongst 67000 people!!