I've been getting these headaches for a while that do not feel at all like "regular" headaches I've had. I remember the first I had about 9-12 months ago which was very intense and lasted a couple days, when my marriage was facing some very dark times. I described it as a migraine from the screaming and crying. After that, they've grown in frequency but are generally less intense. They don't seem to have an emotional connection, but do seem to become worse if I have a general headache.

If I sit still in a dark and quiet area and don't move, I have only the slightest little buzz of a sensation in the back of my head but overall feel quite fine. While I'm alert and not sleepy, I have no energy and generally just want to lie down and rest during these times. It is like everything just slowing waaaaay down. If someone uses the electric pencil sharpener across the room or opens a curtain or if I watch something moving quickly (like typing fingers), I get a really bad headache pain and a vague queasiness in my stomach until the sensory overload is gone. If I move my eyes quickly or far from center (far right or far left), I get a feeling I could only describe as gripping--it is a physical pain, though not intense. The same happens if I move my head quickly. Nodding yes at a normal speed, turning to look who walked into a room, etc all cause a physical pain along the center back of my head. It sounds silly to say, but it isn't like a headache, where there's a generalized area of pain you couldn't exactly pin-point. Instead, it feels like a specific area of my brain is swollen and moving it causes localized pain. It tends to fade away on its own.

I feel like a sensationalist just saying that. I haven't ever had more than common headaches before so I don't know if I should just take some migraine medicine and put on a cold pack or if I should be worried about something like brain tumors or aneurysms or whatever.

I'm going to my doctor. He's the "wait and see" kind of guy, so I wanted to get a reasonable expectation for what would normally be tested or ruled out with this kind of complaint. **What would you reasonably expect a doctor to do?**

Extraneous info: Mid-20s, female, good bmi, no mental health concerns. I had a concussion from a fall to my neck and back around 5 months ago which gave me muscle spasms in my neck and a small herniation in a disc. That's almost completely healed now.

The doctors have been a little puzzled over a separate set of issues which they're seeing but are not figuring out. My thyroid levels have bounced from near-hyper to very hypo- and then back again over the last several years. My heart seems to be going on the same cycle, with an arrhythmia showing up during the hypo- times, but a simple fast heart rate during the hyper- times. Likewise, my blood pressure bottoms out during the hypo- times, causing me to be faint (though I've not passed out). They've done many cardiology and endocrinology tests and though they see the strange cycling, they have no reasons why.

The only other weird thing I can think of are the zapping sensations I got for about 6 months around 2 years ago. They'd shoot over the same part of my brain that now gets these movement aches. My doctor said they were muscle spasms in my neck at the time. They went away on their own.

So what would you reasonably expect a doctor to do given my complaints?

Susie