The link between physical and psychological symptoms is strong and complex. It is not unusual for people to suffer with pain for which no obvious physical cause can be found. Maybe now it is time to try a different approach. At least nothing life-threatening has been found. Your GP has tried many of the usual routes with the aim of alleviating your symptoms, but to no avail. The fact that your headaches have been constant and unvarying over such a long period of time makes any serious cause very unlikely. It does sound as though you have been thoroughly examined and investigated and that no serious physical cause has been found. Living with chronic pain is exhausting and depressing. I can understand your distress about your constant headaches. I don't know where else to turn or what else to do, it honestly feels as though you are my last hope. Surely there must be something wrong to get headaches for so long and so constantly? It's been so long that I can hardly remember what it feels like to not have constant headaches and to function properly. I'm in my final year at university and I would do almost anything to just feel 'normal' again. My blood pressure is fine and the X-ray the doctor sent me to have taken of my head also found nothing to suggest either the cause or the answer to the headaches. I've seen two different doctors but neither has managed to explain or cure these constant headaches and I'm at my wits end. I get these headaches whether I'm stressed (during my exams) or not (relaxing on the beach abroad) and always the same severity and pressured feelings. I eat a well balanced diet, exercise one or two times a week doing aerobics, and I have at least eight hours sleep most nights. I have had the same, constant headache every single day for the previous 4 years and I truly feel at the end of my tether. I've stopped taking the pill for over six months, again to no effect. I've stopped taking paracetamol for two months to see if taking so much each day was causing the headaches to continue, but again no effect, and this wouldn't have explained the original cause of the headaches anyway. I've taken a course of Paramax, again with no effect. It made no difference at all to the occurrence or severity of the headaches. I have taken a course of amitriptyline on three separate occasions (as the doctor thought the cause may be muscle tension in my forehead).
I've been to the doctor lots of times over the previous four years, but with no success at all. I've had an eye test which showed my eye pressure and sight etc were all fine. It hurts my eyes and forehead to look up above my head level. The area around my eyebrow bone feels tense and strained, as do my temples on both sides, and my forehead feels tense and pressured also. It hurts around my eyes and they feel pressured and strained, which is usually made worse by bright sunlight or bright indoor lights. Can you please help as to what is the cause or solution to these constant headaches?įor the last four years I have had constant headaches, usually waking up with one in the morning or sometimes one developing after I've been awake for an hour or so.