Getting headaches.

[Kern Dog]

I'm just guessing here but is it fair to say that most people get headaches occasionally?
What is an average number for a relatively healthy guy? 1 a month? 2 maybe ?
Lately I get them after doing something out in the shop where I wear prescription glasses.
I wear contact lenses that allow me to do about 90 % of what I need to do. I sometimes need the extra magnification of glasses to see close up.
Something about the eye strain gives me a type of headache that develops in a strange way.
It ebbs and flows. It comes in a little, then goes away. This either builds to a full headache or fades away completely. I rarely take pills. I'd rather hold off to see if I really need them.
Besides kids or politics, what gives you headaches and what are they like?

 

[Aarons Air]

Draft beer makes my brain feel like its in a skillet.

 

[vintage chromoly]

I get migraines on occasion.
Always the right side of my melon and they go from the back of my neck all the way around my eye socket.
Smell, loud noise and bright light intensify them.
Stress, lack of sleep, alcohol, not eating regularly will trigger them.

 

[Sahara]

I’m allergic to certain types of mould, which can affect me in bizarre ways.
Penicillin and some antibiotics are made from mould. When I was a kid and got sick they’d give me penicillin and I’d get way sicker. Nobody clued in until I said that I had difficulty swallowing. Because my throat was closing off.
But where I’m going with this...
In the spring I get headaches, and sometimes my eyes will suddenly get so sensitive that I literally cannot open them. This can happen in an instant, while I’m driving. Not good.
At around the same time I can get a headache that actually feel like my head could split. Like a thin crack, right down through the middle of my brain. At first I thought I was having an aneurysm, or brain bleed.
Mould. I breath it, weird things happen. Could be you, too.
But aside from that I rarely get headaches. A few per year.

 

[Hey-O]

I get one most every day when the pollens out and about. Vintage is right about triggers. Not eating does it to me also. It sucks, when your head hurts, it's hard to have fun. Some people just get them, some don't. I have a friend that's in his 70's and has never had one, he doesn't drink....... try drinking more water. Funny you mentioned contacts, when I was working and wore plastic safety glasses with my contacts, I'd get a headache. I think the plastic glasses were a bit distorted.

 

[slimt]

I got half my face ripped off from the end of a Astar landing gear snipe , my Chief Engineer let go of bar when I was directed by him to pull the pin to release the wheel motion to landing skid . Laid up in the hospital for 4 months. Had a headache ever since. That was 1986. Its aweful to live with.

 

[Kern Dog]

Most of the time, mine originate from eye strain. One time I got one after cleaning the headlight buckets for my Charger. I learned later that the galvanized coating is an irritant when airborne.

 

[slimt]

Most of the time, mine originate from eye strain. One time I got one after cleaning the headlight buckets for my Charger. I learned later that the galvanized coating is an irritant when airborne.

Any type of coating will give a person grief. Alot of folks dont think of the chemical attachments on metals. The primer coatings on all the old cars were lead based. That in it self is bad news. Its something that can weep through your open areas. And it does not dissolve.

 

[khryslerkid]

Most of the time, mine originate from eye strain. One time I got one after cleaning the headlight buckets for my Charger. I learned later that the galvanized coating is an irritant when airborne.

Getting used to a new or different prescription will give me a headache. I go through it every time my glasses are changed, even just one setting from my last pair.

I haven't had any real headaches for fifteen years now. Come to think of it, that was when the divorce was final.

 

[slimt]

Getting used to a new or different prescription will give me a headache. I go through it every time my glasses are changed, even just one setting from my last pair.

I haven't had any real headaches for fifteen years now. Come to think of it, that was when the divorce was final.

Haha.

 

[1967coronet]

Weather...... will do it for me, sounds crazy but over the years I have gotten some sinus problems and when the weather is changing like a low or high pressure system coming in I will get a mild headache around my eyes, forehead ect.
After the weather system is in place , fades , ect I do not notice any type of headache.
Also most times a couple asprin will fix it.

 

[eldubb440]

only when the wife wont STFU

 

[BeepBeepRR]

I get ocular migraines. While not painful at all they are annoying as hell. Squiggly color changing lines in the corner of your eye. Often they come and go within a half hour or so. Makes it hard to drive.. I can explain it better with a picture. Imagine seeing this for a half hour.

 

[Kern Dog]

Holy crap...that would suck.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

only when the wife wont STFU

So basically all day, every day????

 

[alfaitalia]

With me is occasionally eye strain (too much time at a screen is the worst)....and I can't wear contacts and don't wear my glassas as much as I should (I only NEED them for driving..by law). The worst headaches I get are the day after I did not drink enough water. They keep me awake and painkillers only make it slightly better...sometimes takes me two days of drinking lots of water to shake it off . It's like I cant rehydrate as fast as I dehydrate. It's my own fault..if I'm on my own and spend a day working on the cars or whatever I get so into it I don't tend to stop for food or drink. My own fault and it's happened long enough for me to know better.

 

[Islandkent]

Hydration. Stay hydrated. I find when I sweat a lot at work I get terrible head aches. Sad part once I get them it's too late I drink then but it a takes a hour or so to come out of it. Before your body starts getting topped up so to speak. I also agree with the sinus thing. I was never allergic to anything but now that I'm getting older, I must be getting so form of hay fever or what ever you call it?? In the spring I find my sinus plug up a bit and experience slight head aches.
What were you using to clean headlight buckets? Vinegar?

 

[Nate S]

I get ocular migraines. While not painful at all they are annoying as hell. Squiggly color changing lines in the corner of your eye. Often they come and go within a half hour or so. Makes it hard to drive.. I can explain it better with a picture. Imagine seeing this for a half hour.

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Good picture! I’ve always explained it like looking through a built in kaleidoscope.

 

[Officer Higgins]

I get migraines on occasion.
Always the right side of my melon and they go from the back of my neck all the way around my eye socket.
Smell, loud noise and bright light intensify them.
Stress, lack of sleep, alcohol, not eating regularly will trigger them.

my old lady has the exact thing. Had them for over thirty years.

 

[69L48Z27]

Sounds like you figured out the trigger. A trip back to the eye doctor would be in order. Don’t fight getting reading glasses. After 40 it’s inevitable. I’m blind without my contact or glasses and now I need help up close. Not seeing will give you headaches for sure.

I also get them once a month with my MAN-stral cycle. Dull headache for a day or two that won’t fully go away but might flare into a migraine.

 

[Brandy]

Rarely. While traveling to far flung military locations I would occasionally find that something growing there, that I had not been exposed to before, would get my sinuses working and give me a headache, but rarely anything else.