Hello! I have been reading the forums for awhile but this is my first post!

A day in the life of me:
Wake up in the morning with a super stiff neck and basically my entire head will hurt. The headache isn’t extremely painful but it is bothersome. I usually lose this headache during the morning (but not always). Usually in the afternoons my headache returns. I am sure these are tension headaches. It feels like my head is being crushed in a vice. I am usually at work when this happens. I sit at a desk and work in front of a computer all day. I go home at night and I either can get rid of the headache or I go to bed with it. My head basically hurts 24/7. There is probably a ton more I could tell you but I don’t want to make this 20 paragraphs long.

I am an occasional migraine sufferer. I use to get them during the week of my period and I now often take birth control all the time and I often skip my period in order to avoid the week of insane pain. This worked for about 10 months but now I wonder what is the point because my head hurts all the time and I get migraines still anyways. I was once sent to the ER because a walk in clinic doctor thought I was having a brain hemorrhage. Now that was fun…..

I do believe I suffer from anxiety. I tend to have panic attacks (not frequently). I have yet to seek help for this…but I do plan on it soon.

I also am a horrible insomniac. I always have been. I am on zopiclone…but of course I cant take this every night. If I don’t take the zopiclone at night I tend to just take gravol or benedryl (so terrible, I know..). I have started taking melatonin but I do not have very high hopes for that!

I just don’t know what to do anymore. I am wondering if going on some sort of anti anxiety pills will help. I don’t want to keep taking Tylenol, Advil etc….. because I think im starting to get rebound headaches, and they don’t work half the time anyways. My work is definitely being affected and so is my life because I just can’t bare doing anything when my head hurts alllll the time.

Im going to see my doctor soon but I just have a feeling nothing is going to get accomplished. Im just looking for some advice and maybe someone else out there who feels like me! Omg, this is so long…