A subset of them make me really like massage right at the base of my skull/back of my neck, but indulging this doesn’t actually improve the headache itself. More headaches do not have this effect.
If you have a friend or associate really work that area does the pain lessen during the stimulation, only to crash back down once they let go?
I usually associate headaches that start at the base of my skull with tension/stress headaches (and stress can be generated a lot of ways) and with the whiplash I got back in the 80s. Oh, and smoking probably didn’t do my neck any good (the nicotine seems to reduce blood flow into the spinal cartilage, especially in the neck).
These would be most effected by the “THC” cure noted above (probably illegal), and/or by doing stuff to reduce stress over time (sex/masturbation to orgasm, hard exercise (did you ever get access to a swimming pool?) on a regular basis etc. etc.. Yoga and/or Feldenkris might also help. These things are preventative, not curative, so you’d have to look at what didn’t happen rather than attempt to apply them afterwards. Although I guess there’s no downside to getting yourself off after the headache starts, if it helps in the end.
You mentioned “above” that going to the doctor would be expensive and time consuming. Are you under 26?
I will try getting someone else to rub my neck next time this happens and I have someone handy. When I do it myself, it doesn’t so much affect the headache as serve as a distraction therefrom.
I still don’t have access to a swimming pool.
I am under 26, and I am on my parents’ insurance, but the problem is that sometimes I turn out to owe money for miscellaneous doctory things and doctors don’t or can’t warn me which things these are, they just say “okay we’re going to do this thing” and then it turns out I need to give them thirty dollars for this thing. Even when I remember to ask “hey is this going to cost me money” they seem not to know, since I suppose it’s insurance-dependent.
While most insurance companies these days have some sort of co-pay, the actual amounts and for what do vary quite a bit from company to company, and even from policy to policy.
This makes shopping for insurance (I’ve had to pay my families insurance out of pocket while contracting or temporarily retired) a real headache inducing experience.
Generally the front office staff (not necessarily the nurses, but the folks behind the counter) have more experience with the billing and can assist you in determining the costs.
Do your headaches respond at all to massage (shoulder, neck, scalp, facial massage)?
A subset of them make me really like massage right at the base of my skull/back of my neck, but indulging this doesn’t actually improve the headache itself. More headaches do not have this effect.
If you have a friend or associate really work that area does the pain lessen during the stimulation, only to crash back down once they let go?
I usually associate headaches that start at the base of my skull with tension/stress headaches (and stress can be generated a lot of ways) and with the whiplash I got back in the 80s. Oh, and smoking probably didn’t do my neck any good (the nicotine seems to reduce blood flow into the spinal cartilage, especially in the neck).
These would be most effected by the “THC” cure noted above (probably illegal), and/or by doing stuff to reduce stress over time (sex/masturbation to orgasm, hard exercise (did you ever get access to a swimming pool?) on a regular basis etc. etc.. Yoga and/or Feldenkris might also help. These things are preventative, not curative, so you’d have to look at what didn’t happen rather than attempt to apply them afterwards. Although I guess there’s no downside to getting yourself off after the headache starts, if it helps in the end.
You mentioned “above” that going to the doctor would be expensive and time consuming. Are you under 26?
I will try getting someone else to rub my neck next time this happens and I have someone handy. When I do it myself, it doesn’t so much affect the headache as serve as a distraction therefrom.
I still don’t have access to a swimming pool.
I am under 26, and I am on my parents’ insurance, but the problem is that sometimes I turn out to owe money for miscellaneous doctory things and doctors don’t or can’t warn me which things these are, they just say “okay we’re going to do this thing” and then it turns out I need to give them thirty dollars for this thing. Even when I remember to ask “hey is this going to cost me money” they seem not to know, since I suppose it’s insurance-dependent.
While most insurance companies these days have some sort of co-pay, the actual amounts and for what do vary quite a bit from company to company, and even from policy to policy.
This makes shopping for insurance (I’ve had to pay my families insurance out of pocket while contracting or temporarily retired) a real headache inducing experience.
Generally the front office staff (not necessarily the nurses, but the folks behind the counter) have more experience with the billing and can assist you in determining the costs.