I'm in need of some solidarity/advice.
I'm currently 24 weeks gone with DC2. Since early on I have had regular very painful and very specific headaches - feels like someone is jamming a thumb into my left eye socket.
Over the past 2 months these have got more regular and worse and now I have a constant (literally constant, every day for over a month now) headache which can flare into awful migraines which leave me bedbound for days at a time.
I am not at all suseptable to headaches/migraines outside of pregnany. I am only confidently calling them migraines because my GP diagnosed them as such.
I had pre-eclampsia in my last preg, so am under consultant care for that, and obviously I'm concerned the migraines are a symptom of that coming on again, but mostly I'm just feeling utterly exhuasted by being in pain all the time and feeling at the mercy of these migraines.
From the moment I get up everything I eat/drink/do is geared around lessening the headache - gallons of water, no strong light/noises, healthy food etc etc.
None of the HCP I've seen want to do ANYTHING about it, a GP reluctantly said I could take low dose ibuprofen, which helps a little some days. Everyone I speak to just asks me what my job is (I'm finishing a PhD thesis) then sucks their teeth, tuts indulgently and tells me it's probably stress.
I am 31 years of age, I know what stress feels like, and it is not someone jabbing their thumb into your eye socket until you are sick.
I feel so disheartened - how do I get my Drs to take this pain seriously, and make a proper attempt to prescribe something that might help manage it? I've heard on here other people have had co-codemol and anti-sickness pills which have helped?
Even if someone could just say 'these headaches are real, you are not making them up, I'm sorry you are in pain' it would help!!