I’ve just had a long awaited GP appointment cancelled and I am beside myself with what to do. I’ll copy the notes I had in my phone for the doctor below.
If anyone has any advice or ideas or anything at all I can get over the counter that I haven’t tried please please share!
“Headaches started about 3 years ago and have gotten worse in the last year. Approximately every 3 weeks.
Saw dr before (May 2021) who said it could be tension headaches and prescribed naproxen. Since then it’s got worse with extreme spells.
Headache comes on over a few hours, starts as bad throbbing pain behind left eye and will either continue like that for about 3 days or will get very bad after about 5 hours to the point of not being able to move or do anything and I vomit and sleep and then it’s gone within a few hours.
Nothing helps, tried paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, migraleave, co-codomamol, and naproxen. In hospital the codeine helped, but it was also one of the shorter headaches so may have been easing anyway.
Once I get the first pains nothing I do seems to help.
Recently there seems to be daily shooting pain’s across the front of my head, like lightning.
Worried about work as work nights in care with only one other person, if it happens there I don’t know what would happen.”
I hope that all makes sense. To elaborate on the hospital part - at the beginning of November I had such bad pain in my head that I was repeatedly vomiting and crying in pain, called 111 for out of hours appointment for stronger pain relief and they sent me to A&E. Had a CT scan and blood tests which were clear and the Drs there said probably migraines but didn’t prescribe anything and told me to go to GP. First appointment I could get was today and that’s been cancelled last minute.