How do last nights numbers look?

My sleep doctor is a neurologist. I have had an MRI, CT and EEG. All were negative.

Kay

kaybaby wrote:My sleep doctor is a neurologist. I have had an MRI, CT and EEG. All were negative.

Kay

I assume this is in connection with trying to figure out the headaches?

It's possible you may need a headache specialist as well as the sleep doctor. Yes, it's a pain in the tuckus to have to have multiple doctors, but sometimes it's needed. I'm lucky that my sleep doc and my headache doc are both part of the same large neurological practice. While either one of them would be competent at handling routine sleep and headache problems, the fact is that my problems are not really "routine" any more. And it's good that each of them can work on the more intractable problems in their area of specialty while still talking to each other.

Curiosity makes me ask:

Has the idea that the headaches might be chronic migraines been discussed? Chronic migraines do not manifest themselves as the classic episodic migraines with aura, often near incapacitating pain localized on one side of the head, light/noise sensitivity, and possible nausea. Chronic migraines are much milder in terms of the pain than a classic episodic migraine, but the fact that they are always there lurking in the background almost every single day can make them just difficult to live with as any other source of chronic pain.

And has the idea that the headaches might be chronic tension headaches been discussed? Contrary to what a lot of people think, chronic tension headaches are not necessarily caused by stress in ones life. A lot of times a tension headache's real cause are muscle knots in the back, shoulders, neck, or tmj area. There are things beyond OTC pain meds that can be done to manage chronic tension headaches.

Here's the reason I ask these two questions: Sufferers of chronic migraines and chronic tension headaches usually have normal brain MRIs, brain CTs, and EEGs. Both are typically diagnosed by ruling out other potential causes of the headache pain and a careful patient medical history.