It's not a tumour!

I get headaches and migraines. Not a big deal you may think be for someone who prior to 2 years ago rarely took any kind of pain relief it is a big deal.
Even now after many doctors visits and him assuring me there is nothing wrong,  sometimes when the pain is to much I seriously think that there is something majorly wrong with me.

In my head I have imaginary conversations with my doctor.

Me: The headaches are back, I think it is a tumour.
Doctor: It's not a tumour! (for those who have seen the movie Kindergarten Cop you will understand how my doctor sounds)

I can go weeks or months with no issues at all and then wham they are back. In the last 2 years I have worked out that it happens either of 2 ways.

Option 1 has no warning and can keep me in bed, light sensitive, for days at a time. If I am out our at work I know that I need to get home and get home fast otherwise someone is going to have to come and get me.  I can't work and I can barely get our of bed on those days to do the basic things like eat, go to the toilet or shower. The pain is indescribable and a lot of the time pain relief doesn't touch the sides.

Option 2 is like a cyclone forming. You know that it is coming but don't know when it is going to hit. I find personally that I can function enough to work most of the time, but that is my limit. As soon as the day is over I struggle to drive home and make it to bed. If it is a weekend I sometimes don't even make it out of bed as it requires to much energy.  I am constantly tired but the pain in my head is not strong enough to call it a migraine,  but is still enough to knock me on my butt. In saying that, if it continues for to long the end result is not being able to get up and function at all. Work is out of the question and my best friends become my bed, my eye mask and pain relief.

Both options leave me lethargic and while the initial headache/migraine may only last a day or two the after effects are, what I find, longer to recover from.

Neither is overly pleasant, however it had become a part of my life recently. Not exactly one that I want to stay though. Some days I wish that I knew what the trigger was so that I could just avoid it.