My 29 year old daughter came down to visit me with an odd complaint, she has a painful lump at the base of her scull. When she's upright she says the pain is kind of intermittent although painful. When she tries to sleep at night, it seems some positions are uncomfortable for her and she wakes up crying in pain. This has just started a few days ago and is no better or worse. We've tried going to emerg. last night but the wait time was horrendous of course, and I just brought her back home. I know she needs to see a doctor when she gets home, however, in the mean time I wondered if anyone could relate to this? The painful headache is definitely due to this odd lump and it's hard to figure out what it is and how to treat the pain until she gets medical help. We've iced it, put heat on it, alternated with those things, tried ibuprofen, nothing seems to help entirely at the moment.