Hi doctor,
Thank you for responding to my query. Headaches were rare for me, no more than once a month, or probably less. Suddenly, eight months back, I began to have terrible headaches. As they were waking me up at night, a family member who is a doctor told me to insist on a scan. My doctor was willing to order the test for me. The headaches are mostly frontal and bilateral, but the headache that I had yesterday, seemed to be all over my head. I felt like I had pain in my cheekbones and low in the back of my head. I do not know how to explain the pain, but it is not throbbing. Sometimes, it feels like my head is burning inside. These headaches are much more intense than any I have ever had before. I have had a couple of headaches that lasted several days. If I wake up with a headache, I have it all day, whether I take pain medication or not. Before I was put on Warfarin, the headaches were daily, or maybe just one long headache.After I began taking Warfarin, they seemed to go away for a few weeks,but since the beginning of this year, I have had several that were very intense. The headaches do not cause me stomach upset or vomiting at all, nor do they have any effect on my eyes. Sometimes, I feel some nasal congestion when I wake up with a headache, but once I am up and around that goes away, and I can breathe freely. I am happy with my life and generally in a good mood. I have a positive outlook on life but do have some issues with anxiety. The medication that I take for anxiety is quite helpful. I have a very supportive husband and two grown daughters who are wonderfully supportive as well. My husband and I are in the process of adopting five children, but we have the support of four therapists who are there for the entire family. I generally sleep well, and I average about seven hours of sleep a night. On those nights when I do not set the alarm, I usually wake up after seven hours of sleep. I have begun to keep headache diary recently and, so far, I have not found anything that looks like a trigger. I think that every time I have had a headache, I have woken up in the morning with a headache. I take medicines for anxiety and adult ADD. At the end of last year, I went for a routine eye exam, and they looked at some pictures of my retina anddiscovered papilledema, several small hemorrhages, and tortuous veins. They suggested discussing these things with my general practitioner (GP) and asking for imaging to help determine the cause. Of course, I had already been diagnosed with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), so I passed this information along to my doctors, who said that it is to be expected. I also sometimes see a white ring around each eye when I close my eyes. Lately, it is intermittent, but a few months ago it was constant. Recently, within the past couple of months, I have begun to hear my pulse in my right ear.