Your Headaches - Where? Duration? Intensity?

I'm curious as to your experience with DID headaches. I'm keep trying to find the cause of my headaches but I'm wondering if they are similar to the general DID community's headaches. . .
I'd love to hear about YOUR headaches.

I usually know a headache is coming before it does. My head will feel heavier & throb with every heartbeat. The whole thing will be right on the verge of pain. Or I'll suddenly start feeling a mild ache near one of my temples or behind my eyes. I usually take Aleve & it obliterates the impending headache & any signs of it within 30 minutes.

If for some reason I don't immediately take pain-killers, or if it comes out of nowhere (usually when I've switched a lot in a short amount of time), the pain is intolerable. Headaches are a lot worse for me than they are most people I meet. The pain actually makes me throw up sometimes. The pain is hot & terrible. My head feels like it's throbbing every second & with each throb comes MORE pain. There's usually a spot that hurts more than anywhere else. Usually near one of my temples or the back of my head. I can't sleep, read, eat, listen to music, walk, cry... It sucks. F--k headaches.

They can last over 24 hours if I don't take pain killers.

-- Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:47 pm --

I usually know a headache is coming before it does. My head will feel heavier & throb with every heartbeat. The whole thing will be right on the verge of pain. Or I'll suddenly start feeling a mild ache near one of my temples or behind my eyes. I usually take Aleve & it obliterates the impending headache & any signs of it within 30 minutes.

If for some reason I don't immediately take pain-killers, or if it comes out of nowhere (usually when I've switched a lot in a short amount of time), the pain is intolerable. Headaches are a lot worse for me than they are most people I meet. The pain actually makes me throw up sometimes. The pain is hot & terrible. My head feels like it's throbbing every second & with each throb comes MORE pain. There's usually a spot that hurts more than anywhere else. Usually near one of my temples or the back of my head. I can't sleep, read, eat, listen to music, walk, cry... It sucks. F--k headaches.

They can last over 24 hours if I don't take pain killers.

hi there


I get headache's just before i go to sleep or when i wake up from sleep. This is only when i slep at night as this is the time when my inside is most active.

What happens with yours?

Have you been to the doctor?

Hope you are doing ok

river

I get migraines and headaches; not sure if it's DID-related, but it does seem to be more frequent during flare ups of ptsd symptoms and increased inner chaos.

They last as little as three hours and my longest has been 12 days. I get throbbing/stabbing pain in the back of my head, which usually moves toward the left ear and sometimes all the way to my temple.

Occasionally it's both sides, mostly above and behind left ear and in front and above the right.

Migraines also make me sick to my stomach and causes some visual disturbances: dots, flashes, distance is off.

I see a team of neurologists for this. -.-

Our DID headaches are most definitely focussed around the front part of the brain- we feel it in our forehead the most. We get these when we consciously or unconsciously disagree on something between ourselves- anything from releasing memories to whether to go to the shops or not. The intensity is usually related to how extreme the disagreement is- the more extreme the disagreement and the more parts that have an emotional stake in what the disagreement is about, the more extreme the headache. No painkiller medication will work on our DID headaches though it will work just fine on our other types of headaches. It has taken us about 3 years of observation specifically related to thinking about DID headaches and several years of prior medical scans and tests to work this out. I think it can be pretty hard to work out what is medical and needs dealing with and what is DID related and might need a different way to deal with.

What are your experiences of headaches Fracturedself?

Ugh... headaches.

I get them most often in my temporal region, occasionally in the back of my head as well. Seems to come up when I come back from dissociating, or want/need to dissociate and can't. Some of the others can control/numb pain, so if able, they remove some of the burden.

I don't go a day without two or more headaches...