headache right hand side of head and behind eye? - Headaches & Migraines Message Board

12-16-2002, 09:36 AM

hi, i am a healthy 22 yr old female.

for the past year i have been suffering with a kind of a weird migrane, not sure what it is, i have had mri and an eeg done all normal.. anyways, i get a pain behind my right eye, to my right ear all aroand that part of my head, its a shotting stabbing pain, i take a pain killer just as i feel it, pain killers seem to ease it of but its still there, for about a week and my right eye also waters alot.. i am really worried as no one in my family has ever had this before? docs have checked me over and opthamologists, just wondering if any one here can realte to this problem.. any help will be much appreciated..

thankyou

heres what happens

pain behind right eye
pain in right temple
pain aroand ear
dizzyness
feel sick, but not
watery eye (right)
lasts for about a week

------------------
donna

[This message has been edited by littlesheep1999 (edited 12-16-2002).]

woodstock · 12-16-2002, 06:05 PM

Hi Donna,

If you substitute right for left, you are almost describing the migraines I have been getting for over 25 years!!

It's good that you have had an MRI to rule out bad things that could be causing it.

What does your GP say about it? Has he/she sent you to a Neurologist or a headache specialist?

What is the pain medicine that you are taking? How much do you take and do you take it every day? What about over the counter meds.?

How high on the pain scale (if 0 is no pain and 10 is "I wanna die" pain) do your headaches get?

You say they last for a week, how many times a month do you get them? How do they go away? Do they just leave you one night when you are sleeping, or can you actually feel them subside??

Cheers//Woody

Karla · 12-17-2002, 06:27 AM

If you are talking aboout a constant headache lasting a week I am more inclind to say migraine but if you are talking about several headaches a day always comming and going it could be a cluster headache. What you describe sounds like it could be a cluster but... Do you get nausiated and sick sign of migraine
....Do you get ha same time every day sign of cluster
.... Do you water at eye and nose sign of cluster
.... Do you rock, roll, pace, bang your head, sign of cluster
.... Do you have ha that lasts more than 5 hours sign of migraine.
Good luck in finding a diagnosis and a preventative.

12-19-2002, 01:26 PM

thankyou but i really do not know i have listed my symptoms here hoping for someone to diagnose me as the gp is useless just keeps saying to me to take painkillers... my eye does water and sometimes my nose all on the righ hand side..

12-19-2002, 01:27 PM

thankyou but i really do not know i have listed my symptoms here hoping for someone to diagnose me as the gp is useless just keeps saying to me to take painkillers... my eye does water and sometimes my nose all on the righ hand side..

------------------
donna