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What Causes Severe Headache In Adults With Difficulty In Sleeping?

Sometimes I get really bad headaches, like turn off all the lights, nobody make a sound, I think I m going to puke headaches. It s gotten so bad before that I ve laid in bed for over an hour imagining stabbing myself in the eye repeatedly. But it s weird because I ve noticed recently that if I can get to sleep it goes away immediately, like even if it s only for literally a minute, when I wake up all the pain is gone.
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

You describe migraine headache symptoms but then, you seem to also be describing symptoms of what at the very least could be some form of TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALGIA (TAC) such as what is frequently referred to as ICE PICK headaches or JABS AND JOLTS. These are treated differntly and should be identified as separate entities. I recommend you find a neurologist (headache specialist preferably) who may ask you to keep a diary of your events and to describe the details between one form of headache and the other when they occur. This will help guide the proper treatment.

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What Causes Severe Headache In Adults With Difficulty In Sleeping?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. You describe migraine headache symptoms but then, you seem to also be describing symptoms of what at the very least could be some form of TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALGIA (TAC) such as what is frequently referred to as ICE PICK headaches or JABS AND JOLTS. These are treated differntly and should be identified as separate entities. I recommend you find a neurologist (headache specialist preferably) who may ask you to keep a diary of your events and to describe the details between one form of headache and the other when they occur. This will help guide the proper treatment. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.