so many headaches

[jazz412]

I don't normally get headaches but in the last two weeks I've really had a bad headache most days. Last week one of the headaches lasted 3 days and I found it hard to even move let alone do anything productive!
I'm nearly 16 weeks (about 15.5/6) just wondering whether this is something that happens or whether it's something else. I haven't been doing anything differently ie no more extra reading, longer time on computer etc just average...

Typing this hurts!!!

Could be a virus? There are a lot doing the rounds - causing the most severe of headaches. I had it, absolutely horrendous headaches for 10 days that got so bad I was vomiting with the pain, couldn't drive etc.

Also get your BP checked.

You have my sympathy
(I suffer fom migraines, although bizarrely they improve when I'm pregnant!!)

Have you had a recent check up with the midwife?? Sometimes raised BP can cause headaches. So can being dehydrated, which happens more easily when you are pregnant, so try drinking lots and lots of water too.
I seem to get headaches and pains in my shoulders and neck (tension type headaches) much more easily when I'm tired too - so try having a really early night (it's a good excuse to curl up in bed and be lazy if nothing else!!)
It might be worth just getting checked out with the mw or GP if you are still struggling, just to put your mind at rest.
Hope you feel better soon x

Thanks, I have a mw appointment next week (16 week one - btw what do they do at that appointment?)
I don't think it can be lack of sleep, I'm sleeping a hell of a lot tbh! it may be dehydration but I'm quite good at drinking a lot - I certainly wee a lot now..

I'm just struggling with painkillers too because ordinarily I would just pop a pill and all would be better but I'm wary of taking anything now :(

BP - high or low? at booking app. they said I was bordering on low to normal BP?

also I've never really known, not sure whether to call these migraines or headaches - what's the difference?
With these headaches, it hurts to move my head and having lights on hurts. Rubbish! just as I was feeling relieved at coming out of 1st trimester of sick....typical!

I have just experienced the exact same thing! I'm now 16.5 weeks and asked my midwife about them last week ... she said to drinks lots more water and take paracetamol. I told her I was worried about taking paracetamol but she said it's fine for baby! I had a headached every morning for a week (suffered from migraines 10 years ago but nothing until now!) and she said to take a paracetamol as soon as it started and by the second dose it should have gone. If it lasts more than a couple of days she told me to make an appointment at the Dr's. But touch wood ... they are now much less painful and easing slightly.
The only way I can explain a migoraine is OUCH! It just hurts so much, usually throbs constantly on one side, bright lights, computers etc make it worse and you can't concentrate on anything. Stress at work make mine worse but I spent last weekend feeling sick from Friday to Sunday with one - not nice! Try the water and paracetamol ... and you have my sympathy! x

I had the headaches from 13 weeks and they didnt properly go off until 17 weeks but there now completely gone and at 24 weeks I rarely get headaches and if I do there nothing in comparison to those ones.
Im rambling really but just to say they do eventually ease off even when it feels like they never will!x

:) I'd never heard of them as a thing in pregnancy, all new to me!!