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I have possibly solved my three-week tension headache by purchasing a new pillow. Yesterday I woke up with the headache back, but Excedrin managed to (eventually) kill it, and went by Bed Bath & Beyond, dropping $60 on the only pillow there that seemed to fit the sweet spot between being thicker than the one I was currently using (which I think had eventually gone flatter) and thinner than the one I pulled from the spare bedroom (which was Too Damn Fat to sleep on with any degree of comfort).
This morning, I woke up at 5:30/6-ish with nothing, then 6:30ish with a headache. What had I done between the two times? Pulled the other pillow I have over my head, which is a habit I've head since college, when I used the other pillow to dampen sound and light. 6:30 is when the traffic on the street behind our house picks up. Taking the pillow off my head seemed to make the headache go away. My current hypothesis is a too-thin pillow combined with the pillow on top of my head keeping my neck and upper back in a bad position for too long.
Of course it's entirely possible that that's all a smokescreen and the problem is something else entirely, but that will take a few more days of experimentation to establish. (Yes, I have talked to my doctor about this--that's how we established it was probably a tension headache and not a migraine, and I was given instructions to keep taking Excedrin, take the muscle relaxers I have, and lay about on a heating pad and if nothing changed in a week to call her.)
Aaaand now that I post this, I think the headache is creeping back. Bah.
This morning, I woke up at 5:30/6-ish with nothing, then 6:30ish with a headache. What had I done between the two times? Pulled the other pillow I have over my head, which is a habit I've head since college, when I used the other pillow to dampen sound and light. 6:30 is when the traffic on the street behind our house picks up. Taking the pillow off my head seemed to make the headache go away. My current hypothesis is a too-thin pillow combined with the pillow on top of my head keeping my neck and upper back in a bad position for too long.
Of course it's entirely possible that that's all a smokescreen and the problem is something else entirely, but that will take a few more days of experimentation to establish. (Yes, I have talked to my doctor about this--that's how we established it was probably a tension headache and not a migraine, and I was given instructions to keep taking Excedrin, take the muscle relaxers I have, and lay about on a heating pad and if nothing changed in a week to call her.)
Aaaand now that I post this, I think the headache is creeping back. Bah.
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