Stabbing Pain In Head If I Laugh Posted: 09-27-04 01:52am
I get a stabbing headache like pain which
lasts a few seconds to a few minutes. It
happens when I cough / laugh/ sneeze or
strain. It is so intense that I crouch
holding my head in extreme pain and I feel
tired afterwards.
I had a ct scan which showed a normal
brain what could it be.
I suffered from severe migraines from the
age of six.
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Dooba
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Cough/laugh Headache Posted: 10-06-04 16:30pm
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.
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oneeyedfrog
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Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 2
Posted: 02-01-05 05:50am
Thank you for you reply
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Joanna Holmgren
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Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Re: Cough/laugh Headache Posted: 11-19-05 10:06am
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?
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pmaus
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Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Denver
Cough Headache Posted: 08-28-07 01:56am
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.
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