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Suggest Treatment For Persistent Headache
I have head ache on my left side tampo all day,took 8 Tylenol that day by 10 pm not comfortable of the feeling ask to be drop off at immerge,doc there gave anti inflammatory shot and purgercett for pain,1/2 later pain kinda spread to more to the side and 3 day later no ache but can t think strait,head felt like balloon fill with air,and still pain but smaller and shorter time,no energy feel like hang over. My mom die of brain tumor 16 ago,she had head ache and took 500 tablet extra strength Tylenol in one week ,got concern doc sent her for cat scan see nothing, 9 month later one morning she wouldn t eat being she diabetic we call 911,while she in hospital she got MRI done that s when they found tumor that grow rapidly and be she 76 year old it be worse to operate,doc gave her 7 days to live but she was with us 6 week. This is my biggest concern,I m only 52 I consider myself healthy except asthma,that is once or twice attack ,so please help me solve this head problem,waiting for urgen MRI just been 3 day,hope I know what s wrong before I go under,thank you
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Hi,
From what you describe, this is a unilateral pain which can last for a long period of time and it can spread back to the top of your head.This is characteristic of both Migraine and some uncommon forms of Cluster headache. These are both lifelong conditions that need a preventive treatment with calcium-blockers or beta-blockers such as verapamil or propanolol.But the acute treatment for both of them is sumatriptan 6mg subcutaneous. This can repeated after 1 hour if the pain has not subsided, but no more than 12 mg/24 hours.
Aspirin, paracetamol and neurofen are not effective against this, so stop taking them because you will start experiencing side-effects for the high dose of aspirin you are taking. In addition, I would recommend you to see a Neurologist, so that the precise diagnosis can be established and he/she can help you understand this better and to start together a preventive treatment prescribed by him/her.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Iven Romic Rommstein, General Surgeon
From what you describe, this is a unilateral pain which can last for a long period of time and it can spread back to the top of your head.This is characteristic of both Migraine and some uncommon forms of Cluster headache. These are both lifelong conditions that need a preventive treatment with calcium-blockers or beta-blockers such as verapamil or propanolol.But the acute treatment for both of them is sumatriptan 6mg subcutaneous. This can repeated after 1 hour if the pain has not subsided, but no more than 12 mg/24 hours.
Aspirin, paracetamol and neurofen are not effective against this, so stop taking them because you will start experiencing side-effects for the high dose of aspirin you are taking. In addition, I would recommend you to see a Neurologist, so that the precise diagnosis can be established and he/she can help you understand this better and to start together a preventive treatment prescribed by him/her.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Iven Romic Rommstein, General Surgeon
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