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Old 29-05-2007, 09:47 AM
goodguy goodguy is offline Gender Male
 
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Thanks for the responses guys- its good to know that there are a few listening ears.

As odd as it sounds I think the headaches are filtering out at least some of the emotional and physical aspects of the trauma. When this started and throughout the last 2 1/2 years I literally feel this emotional/physical reservoir on the left side of my head with pressure to come out. I can feel a bit of this resesvoir release and travel from my left side of my head to the right. It stays on the right side for a while then falls away. Then more of the reservoir is released and the cycle repeats. The pressure I feel from the left is becomming weaker and weaker. As it becomes weaker I become more physically and emotionally more in touch with myself. I am literally 1000% better than before the headaches began (I was a real mess before, coudn't relate to others at all, anger and confidence issues, the whole nine yards... ).

I don't know how to explain it except I did read Peter Levine's book called Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma and what he says seems to fit. He describes trauma as trapped energy- as the body's fight or flight response that has been trapped and needs to be released. Don't know if thats what is going on here but it sure feels like it is.

When the headache end I'm not sure what I will have to deal with- my wishful thinking hopes I will be healed but we we see. Maybe you guys are right, maybe they will not end until I work on stuff. I tried therapy, EMDR, other stuff and the only thing that seems to help is the passage of time. I think that they are slowing down however and there will be an end though. I would like to post again in a few months to record progress for myself and for others that may be experiencing this.
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Old 04-06-2007, 11:28 PM
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When I was a preteen I had migraines all the time, the only thing that helped was a towel full of ice, a dark quiet place, and a half hour alone. I would still have the headache hang over but it would relieve it tremendously.
My mother had a knack for finding whack job doctors, and was put on epilespy medicines that only made things worse, and sleeping pills that would last about two weeks and stop working when I built up a tolerance, hence I stopped all med.s and pasted out alot for a few days but used the tests given to understand it was from stress.
I am also a medic, and suggest that you seek an eeg, electrodes on the head to measure brain activity, just to be on the safe side and rule everything else out. I'm sure today it would be a cat scan or an mri, this was back in the seventies.
I just underwent surgery to fuse to discs in my neck due to lack of bone in the front, from torture forty years ago, it was giving me headaches and I knew that one was physical.
Just relax, you sound like your moving mountains to be uptight to relaxed is excellent, good work.
Hope you get to the bottom of it soon. Keep us posted.
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