The symptoms you have are consistent with "cough headache"--this is a benign (although it hurts) form of primary headache that is triggered by anything that increases your intrathoracic pressure such as coughing, sneezing, doing situps etc. It rarely is associated with anything sinister. If frequent, it can be responsive to a presription drug (indocin), but this is hard on the stomach--you could try 1 aleve twice a day with food.
An mri is a better test to see if you may have a chiari malformation (when the brain is riding low within the skull). This would still be responsive to indocin--but you might want to get that checked out. Good luck.

Thank you for you reply

Hello! My boyfriend has exactly the same type of headace. We live in sweden. We wounder what is the ingredience in indocin and in 1 aleve, so we can try to find the same type of drug over here?

I read these posts and thought I'd try to get an opinion on my condition. Last Christmas (it's August now) I had a violent cough that on three or four occasions brought on a brief, stabbing pain in the left front part of my head. The pain subsided, but for a further two or three weeks I had trouble thinking clearly and remembering, and even felt some numbness/tingling in the extremities on my left side.

MRI, MRA, and CT scan all came out clean, and the symptoms gradually died down. However, eight months later, I find that I still can't exercise or strain myself in any way without experiencing pressure in the same area of my head and feeling dopey for the rest of the day.

Is it possible for primary cough headache to have such lingering effects? Every site I've checked claims that the condition should subside in a matter of days or weeks, not months. Any input would be appreciated.

I get headache like pain back of my head and it last for few minutes. It Happens when I Sneez/laugh/cough. And some time there is a headache and my head spins and I feel like falling. I have sit down for some time and then after some time I am ok. I have got my MRI done they found out there is some kind of growth where the nerve lead to the brain when cough it gets pressed and is the cause for pain and head spinning. I would like to know should I go in for an operation of can it be healed by medicineâ?¦

I had similar symptoms in waves of 4 to 8 months duration then a few months clear over a period of about five years. MRI scans were normal. I was put on several different drugs without effect. The periods of remission gradually increased and I have been clear now for over 3 years. At worst one sneeze would cause dizzying symetrical head pain lasting over an hour during which I would lie down till it subsided. No cause was found.

hi i just get get a sprain feeling in the back of my head after i have been laughing also i feel it when i yawn? i have had this for months any advice?