Sharp Pain In the Side of My Head..

Hi all, first i'd like to say how releaved i am to hear that I am not alone. I too am experience quick, sharp pains in the head that only last seconds. They occur right above my left ear and can occur a few times a day or several. I have been experiencing alot of anxiety lately and thought i was going to have a heart attack or stroke!! its been driving me nuts and scares the heck out of me. The anxiety has been the past few weeks with chest pains and then my heart starts to race (i think only because its scares me). Since then, the anxiety seems to be gone but i am now experiencing those brain pains! I feel like i am turning into a hypocondriac (sp?). I wish more doctors would reply to us and give us some sort of insight as to whether we should be worried about this or chalk it up to stress....which i probably have been coz i've recently moved and started a new job. I am turning 33 this October, am still on the pill and smoke (not heavy, a pack (25) can last me 5 days) which i plan on kicking both REALLY soon. I do exercise 5-6 times a week and am in good shape, no 6 pack but not fat by any means. Should we be concerned about all these pains or are we over reacting???

I also get this kind of pain it just flys in and just as fast as it comes it flys away again. I could be doing something so normal, and then I will get it, I feel like I'm being stabbed in the head, I sometimes scream cause it hurts so much, and it's also so unexpected. It's scary, people look at me, and just say are u ok..... LOL. I'm young women healthy, 22 yrs old, no known health problems, but when it comes to my head I always think I have some serious problems, but have yet to get anything confirmed and/or resolved. I will mention it to my doctor as soon as i can. I'm always afraid that I might end up like Buffy's mom on the couch, for any of you that have watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

with fresh air the symtoms i have subside,problem is when returing to the big smoke city the air is not so pure,oxygen therapy could assist these tension head aches i feel...also try chi breathing in the park or mountains early morning or at dusk when air quality is cleanest.go for a brisk walk time to time also can help this problem... and plenty of water rich foods-not too cooked vegies and rabbit meat and peking duck is great tucker...

I've been having these pains for a long time, I'm very relived that I'm not the only one. I just had one about 5 minutes ago. For me they last from 10 seconds to a minute and a half. I get them every morning a few minutes after I wake up, and sometimes I get them in the evening. They seem to come and go. I'll have a lot in two weeks then only one in another two weeks. It's pretty weird. I'm only 15, so it's pretty creepy for me. I've been having them since I was about 13 and a half(Less often then though). My ear still hurts from my last one. My mom says it's a sinus pain, but that couldn't be it. And this last one I just had actually hurt my throat. It's never hurt my throat before. They usually start at my temple and spread to behind my ear and eye and now my throat. It hurts. I hope someone can figure it out.

I have this sharp pain in my back side of my head. Every 5 minutes i get a stabbing pain that lasts or less than a second. I've been wandering whats going on with this issue. This pain really feels like a broken finger. is this serious or what?

I have suffered from this for years.. Really years. Every doctor say something different but it all amounts to the same thing NOTHING!!!! I am having and episode now for the last three days.. This time the doctors did nothing but tell me again nothing.... This is like I am crazy or something.. Here I am responding to this cause it seems that no one where I am have heard of this or know what to do? advil motrin etc vicodine nothing works just helps me get through the night so I can sleep.. These episodes last me any where from 2 to 7 days needless to say I am not in the best of modes during this time.. And one have any answers I would love to see what you do for pain management.. I think I am going to try accupuncture..

I was in a car accident in Oct of 07 and had neck injured. I have had a headache since Nov of last yr. I have been out of work since Jan and ive had a headache(worse than a migraine) for 10 weeks now.NONE STOP!!! I get blurred vision, feels like my face is drown back. I have had MRI's, CT'scan and spinal tap. I have seen 3 Neurologist. all they can come up with is I just have a sinus infection. Can someone please help me. I have noway to turn. I have also been to the ER 7 times. No medicine can touch the pain. Not only is this a problem but the person that hit me (there insurance is refusing to pay. Please help me with the PAIN

Hello Daniela,

I was in a car accident many years ago that also affected my back and upper shoulder. While going through therapy, I also began getting these headaches frequently. I told my Chiropractor and what he did while receiving my regular therapy session amazed me. He laid me on the massage table (on my back) with my neck hanging off the table just a little (the chiroprator was also standing above me with my head in his hand). Suddenly he cracked my neck . Of course I was shocked. I asked him why did he do that? He told me, that there is a disc between my neck and shoulder and sometimes it shifts out of place. When it shifts, it tend to rub against nerves causing various types of headaches. Trust me, it worked. 5 minutes after he did that, headache was gone. Never came back. Every now and then when I begin to get headaches that do not go away, I call up the chiropractor or even a licensed massage therapist (they tend to do that as well) and let them go to work on me. Sure makes me feel like a new person. I hope all is well.

I am 28 years old. Since I was about 9 I have had severe headaches and migraines. Not to mention Seizures. I have been to all the doctors around and they have yet to figure out why i have these problems. I've had everything (cat scans, mri, sleep study, ekg you name it ive done it) Therefore they havent put me on any meds because the problems are still undiagnosed. I go everyday with a headache sometime the pain is mild, and some days i cant get outta bed. I live on Advil. Probably take a bottle a week which is horrible on my liver. I am concerned about my problem but more importantly i have 2 daughters. 1 is 9 and the baby is 3. My 9 year old is already experiencing these severe headaches as well as me. I don't want her to live in the same pain as I do. I don't have insurance for myself or my girls so any advise that i can read up on is helpful to me. I have learned that most doctors want your money and could care less if you are healed... Thanks for reading my story, and i hope someone can help....

Hi all, I have been doing my rounds here trying to find out what my little issue is caused by but I hope I can help you as well.

Anyway, it all started with Low Potassium about a year and a half ago (hospital visit for heart palpatations, and breathing difficulty). After the Doctors got it up to about 3.7 they turned me loose.... shortly after, I started to get a stab or vascular spasm pain slightly above and behind my right ear. It would just hit a couple of times and go away for a few days, It was intense and made me gasp and breath in when it happened... then it got worse, every other day, then every day, then multiple times a day. I quit smoking, caffeine, etc.and it only got worse and started to "crawl" further up my head towards my forehead.
Pepsi helped (can't say that coffee did) when i went back on the Pepsi but I found the cause (not the root cause which I believe is Kidney related somehow) and that was Milk (that includes cheese, creamed corn, mashed potatoes, etc, anything with milk in it.)

After being off milk, It went away. It comes back sometimes when I forget to order without cheese and things like that sometimes but at least I know what was primarily causing it.

My main problem that I believe is related to the root cause of these headaches is a Kidney malfunction.

I am peeing out way to much potassium and have slightly high-normal aldosterone and undetectable Renin according to the bloodtests so far. This all started right after the first potassium drop.... BTW, I am 40 and never had any issue with milk, never had a headache before (except a tension headache in the back of my neck when I drove 20 hours once and an occasional sinus headache in my face) and drank & ate tons of milk products all my life.

Hope this helps and it turns out to be a mid-life strange milk allergy as mine appears to be.

I woke this morning with an ice pick pain 2 inches above my left ear and worried that I was having a brain bleed or tumor. I took 2 aspirin and laid back down and it subsided. I googled it and found all of these other people that had the same exact symptoms.

Could it be our cell phones causing this internal pain????

I've been having pains like this since college. (I'm 45 now) I wish I knew what they heck they were. I've been getting them quite a bit lately, so I'm planning on a trip to the dr.

I am having this feeling not really a pain on the left side of my head and it feels like a waterblister when i tilt my head but theres nothing there I am getting worried and am starting to get a slight headache any suggestions??

Hi,

My daughter suffered with stabbing pains in her head for almost a year. We went to several doctors who could find nothing. Finally, we went to a chiropractor who x-rayed her spine and found that her head was sitting crooked on her spine. After just 2 adjustments, she was cured!!

hi my name is heather i been having sharp pains in myhead the would just come and go and its in the left side just up over my ear and they hurt really bad but then go away. i as an an accednt last year i dont know if that got anything to do with it but it got me really scared it makes me nurvous and sick.. should i be worried could it be an anursym cuz it got me scare please reply quick thanks