Severe headaches in bed?
I caught a virus weekend before this one and got usual symptoms one gets with a virus like fibromyalgia (aches and pains, shooting, numbing, tingling etc...) and sensitive skin and lymph nodes all inflamed, fever, headache. Also lost appetite and energy and stayed in bed for a day and fell behind with university work. Got night sweats, irregular breathing and going hot and cold in each second.
Now, the virus is not really a cold in any way apart from a strange dry cough.
Now I am getting over it slowly but ever since I caught it last tuesday I have had SEVERE headaches every time I go to sleep, which gradually wear off in the hours after I get up. They are intense and also felt around the eyes especially when I roll them about. Even thinking about lying down triggers a pang of pain in my head. I have used Paracetamol and Ibuprofen painkillers but it doesn't last long enough to dampen the severe pain as I wake up. It's crap and takes the fun out of having a lie in as you can imagine.
I call it the MONSTER HEAD ACHE VIRUS.
As you can tell I am looking for some medical experts here who might really KNOW things not just speculative stuff IUCWIM.
Thanks for any answers, if you gave a good one, if not then leave no comment.
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1. You could have sinusitis. Your symptoms are very typical.Go to your GP and hopefully he will prescibe some antibiotics.
I had it once and thought I would die from the pain, it is horrendous.
Take Ibobrufen and paracetamol..seperate tablets the strongest you can get...take them as prescibed on the packet.
Ibobrufen for inflammation, paracetamol for the pain. I know you tried them but did you try them together.
This headache is like toothache, you have air pockets in your skull just above your eyes and either side of your nostrels, with sinusitis they get glogged up and become infected, resulting in immense pressure cos there is nowhere for the pus to go...
I feel for you...it is terrible...when you have it bad..
Good luck.
