About once or twice a year, it's happening right now, I get this escrusatingly terrible pain in my sinus area. It is usually on the right side, under my eye and usually goes all the way to my ear, temple, upper head. Many times it is also in both upper and lower jaw and teeth I have even felt it down the side of my neck.

Here's the kicker. It only happens at night, usually right after going to sleep. I cannot lay down at night. I stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning and can usually then go to bed without pain. I can lay down in the day with no pain.

Antibiotics do no good at all, or advil, aspirin etc. Sinus medicine rarely helps. The only thing I can do when it hits is drink hot liquids making contact with the roof of my mouth, usually 2 cups of hot tea will relief the pain. Heat from a hot cup or hot pack or heating pad will sometimes help too.

The pain cannot be likened to anything I've ever felt including migraine. It's like a ordinary sinus headache times 10. If it lasted more than a short time I would go mad. It hurts so bad I cannot even cry--until after.

It happens every night for about 2 weeks. Last spring it was 3 weeks and right now I'm on about day 10.

I do have some congestion sometimes and I do have allergies. But I don't have anything like a cold.

It seemed to begin about 5 or 6 years ago when I had the flu.

Does anyone else have anything like this? I have read about cluster headaches and sinus, but I'm really confused as to which it is. Naturally I've seen my doctor, but he's clueless too.