Hello,

I am wondering if anyone else has had problems with waking up with a headache? I can go to bed without a headache but start waking up in the night with my head hurting. For me it's usually on the left side of my head-around my eye and the bridge of my nose. I wake in the morning really feeling it and it lasts for most of the day and tapers off by nighttime. This has been going on for a few weeks now. I wake up feeling like crap-tired, wiped out, I look like I have been out all night drinking!!! Bags under my eyes etc. Could this be peri-menopause or maybe something else I should get checked out?

thanks everyone for your support!

jamby,
I also went through this exact same thing about a month ago. Mine was also on one side of my head and my eye. It was actually starting to scare me. I would wake up in the middle of the night with it and have it most of the day. Tylenol didn't touch it. I chalked it up to sinus. It did go away after about 3 weeks.
I can't really give you any words of advice except to say it is probably just another meno symptom. Sorry.

Susie

Hello,

If it goes on for more than a week or so I think you should get it checked out by your Doctor. Anything new health wise I think should be looked at.

That said I read your post because I too have this and have done so for many years on and off, certainly pre menopause. I saw the doctor who checked my blood pressure as it can be a sign of high BP, but mine is quite low and also advised me it could be due my neck, which from many years of hirse riding has quite worn discs.

My pains are usually one sided and go up my neck over my ear to my forehead and down to usually behind my right eye.

Over time I have put it down myself to sleeping too deeply and maybe not breathing properly, too shallowly perhaps. I tend to get these the most on a Saturday night after I have wound down for the weekend and if I have not been out for the night. I wake up in the early morning before light, with a pounding head and it will stay with me until mid arfternoon, which really messes up Sundays!

I am a headachey person and get one for a couple of days at the end of my period and in the wind in winter, but these are different from the night ones. I also suffered from Migraines in my early teens and these came on at night too so maybe there is some sort of link.

Hope this is of help

Amanda

Thanks Suzy and Amanda!

I do have neck problems so I think it could be related to that. I'll give it til the end of the week and then get it checked out if it hasn't gone away by then.

Jamby

The headaches that I used to get were exactly as you described and mostly came on during the night, although sometimes during the day as well. Mine turned out to be caused by the bcp I was taking at the time which was combined estrogen and progesterone. My doctor put me onto the mini pill which was progesterone only and the headaches stopped, so hormones could definitely be the problem.

Having said that, you should be checked out just to be on the safe side.

Hope you find some relief soon.

Janeyxxx

I have had pain over left eye with tight jaw and aching teeth for months. "Headaches" last all day. Dr. said it is a low grade migraine. I've had them for many months now and they just seem to be subsiding as I just started HRT. Only relief I got was from Excedrin Migraine.

Hi Jamby, I could have written your post. I have suffered exactly as you've described, and I figured it was sinus related, because it affected one side of my face, my eye and ear. This kind of headache plagued me on and off for the last three years or so; however, they have really dissipated during the past year. Now, I rarely suffer them. I've just chalked this all up to perimenopause!

I had always used Tylenol for headaches, but it didn't work for these. I used Advil for a while, that worked better, then I began using aspirin, and it helped some too. Sometimes I would take a Sudafed -- sometimes it helped, other times not. It was such a weary time -- like you mentioned, I would be wiped out during the day and looked horrible. Hopefully, you'll experience what I did -- a gradual lessening.

You asked if you should get it checked out. I had worried my headaches could have been caused from high blood pressure, as my sister had similar headaches, and it turned out she DID have high blood pressure. I was lucky though, my BP was okay.

RedFox

I think the headaches, or migraines, or whatever they are, are the worst. mine lasted for three days this time, on the side of the head, above the eye, and it was worse at night. I dont know if has something to do with peri menopause or heavy PMS's that last for 1 1/2 days.

I get really bad bouts of this sort of headache. They wake me up at night and last all the way through the next day. Imetrex doesn't even help the pain. Some are worse than others and sometimes I throw up with them. These headaches are about the only reason that I have to call in sick to work. I firmly believe that my headaches are hormonally related.

Its weird as sometimes I'll go for a few months and not get one and then bammmm, I'll get a few in a row. I also get the worst ones right around my period. My others symptoms flair up when the headaches come.

I wouldn't wish this on anyone!

Hi, I just wanted to say that I went to the eye Doctor one time when I was having headaches, I thought it might be my eyes getting weaker, He said that morning headaches are usually caused by sinus trouble. So that could be what's causing yours. I also have neck problems, and wake up with pain, but the headache comes later. Best of luck to you.

Jen, you could be right, I also read somewhere, that sinus can be one of the symptons of preimenopause, i know i was sneezing a lot last weekend when i got my PMS's and bad headache.

Yep, count me in. I woke up two days ago with a headache over my right eye. I'm convinced this is from a decrease in estrogen since i quit taking my 2mg estradiol three days ago. For pain relief I'm using Advil every 4-6 hours, it helps a bit. For the past year I've been cycling my bioidenticals 25 days on, then 5 days off each month since I'm still in peri.
Unfortunately I missed a period last month so this months is a real doozy. (Can you say FLOOD!?) Now I can't wait till New Years Day so I can take my estradiol & prometrium again to get rid of this stabbing headache and heavy bleeding.