Hi folks,

I'm a 30-year-old guy who has suffered from headaches for most of his life (since I was maybe 8 or so). My headaches are almost always in the same place: behind and just above my right eye. It's not a stabbing or stinging pain, just an intense ache with maybe a bit of a burning sensation. They come on gradually, and when they really kick in, they might spread around the area a bit, but they're still fairly localized. Also -- and this might sound odd -- rainy weather seems to be a trigger, though the pain can occur at any time. I used to get these much less frequently than I do now. For the past year or more, it seems that I have a low-grade one of these almost daily, and every now and then it blossoms into a whopper. Oh yeah, there's no discharge from my nose, but when my head hurts like this, I can feel a kind of tightness when exhaling through the right nostril while keeping my left nostril shut.

Does any of this ring a bell with anyone here? Please help if you know something. Thanks!

Look up Chiari Malformation........

Hi folks,

I'm a 30-year-old guy who has suffered from headaches for most of his life (since I was maybe 8 or so). My headaches are almost always in the same place: behind and just above my right eye. It's not a stabbing or stinging pain, just an intense ache with maybe a bit of a burning sensation. They come on gradually, and when they really kick in, they might spread around the area a bit, but they're still fairly localized. Also -- and this might sound odd -- rainy weather seems to be a trigger, though the pain can occur at any time. I used to get these much less frequently than I do now. For the past year or more, it seems that I have a low-grade one of these almost daily, and every now and then it blossoms into a whopper. Oh yeah, there's no discharge from my nose, but when my head hurts like this, I can feel a kind of tightness when exhaling through the right nostril while keeping my left nostril shut.

Does any of this ring a bell with anyone here? Please help if you know something. Thanks!

WOW! You're one of the first ones I have yet to come across to have what sounds like something extremely similar to me. While I don't know that for certain, it sure sounds that way.

For a few years now I have had pain in my right eye. Sometimes head or check, even a little jaw, but other times they are fine but the right eye would be awfully in pain. I went to an eye doc who said it was sinus infection. I was put on sinus meds which, long story short, didn't really work. Years passed, pain remained. One day I accidentally took too much golden seal to get rid of it (5 pills of 540 mg ea). Pain gone! I experiemented to see, and that was it. Found out this treats sinus infections and mold allergy, and I had both.

But its not over. Shortly after spring came, and thunder storms arrived with their barometric pressure changes. Pain back! (Can't win. lol) Again long story short, and believe me I did not find this out for quite a while, but I had a Migraine in my right eye. And the trigger was weather.

Now I had migrained years ago, but they fell in the category of what is the norm for them. But they ended and I no longer got those type so I never recognized my eye pain as a migraine. They had changed (probably mutated) to whats called "Transformed Migraines." If you dont know what that is, here's a blurb from a web page:

"Transformed migraine DIFFERS "substantially" from regular migraine. The headaches are "less severe" and can be present on one OR BOTH sides of the head at the SAME time. Most ”ordinary‘ migraine occurs on one side only. Unlike with ”ordinary‘ migraine, there is LITTLE sensitivity to light OR sound and nausea does NOT play such a big part either." (Do a net search if you want more info on 'transformed migraines.')

Because triggers for the regular migraines were no longer present, it took me a long time to figure out what I had, or that I even had them at all!

Ok, so now I just started on feverfew. That takes 30-90 days (at most) to kick in, so not much to report yet since I've only been taking it two weeks. But my past confusion may help clear yours. Also they told me you usually dont get sinus infectoin AND allergies, but I had them both, plus migraines. Therefore I did not get treated for what I really had since my health issues didn't fit textbook descriptions.

I dont know tho what "Chiari Malformation" and I'm going to look that up tomorrow too. Every little bit helps. :) Good luck.

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