Again woken in the early hours by a series of attacks hat has kept me awake since 2.30 am. Yet again i could feel what i can only describe as a band of pressure around the top of the head that feels icy cold when it appears. This is what sets my attacks of in the early hours and keeps waking me from my sleep. During the day it is normally my neck or a problem with my back and stress that sets off most of my attacks but i also get ones due to cold and wet weather also during the day. The ones i get n the early hours are strange as there is no warning sign of an attack like during the day were you get the aches or sharp pains. Also when you are woken from your sleep you are not tired and in fact actually wide awake as if you had never been to sleep. It’s then, within moments of you realising you are awake, the attack begins and it is always started behind the eye,
It’s like someone is slowly pushing a hot poker into your eye socket and your eye just seems to swell up and start to close. Your eye then begins to water as if someone has switched on a water tap. Your nose blocks up so you can’t breathe other than through your mouth. The pain then spreads from behind the eye and within seconds takes over the entire left side of your head. A pain so strong that you think your brain is going to explode. Smashing your head on the ground as if to try and crack it open to release the demon actually feels pleasurable compared to the level of pain you get. All this happens within seconds of opening your eyes and the pain just takes over every sense of your body. All you can hear is loud ringing and a hum like a TV set is out of tune.
After you jump out of your bed so fast your feet don’t touch the floor until you have reached the living room. The pain then starts to spread onto the neck making it feel like you have something stuck in the join. It then starts to spread down the left side of my back and stops just under the shoulder blade making it feel as though someone has stabbed you in the back and left the knife inside the wound. Pain also spreads across the front of the chest towards your heart and panic sets in and thoughts of having a stoke or heat attack flash through your mind. All you can do is scream in agony and try and rub the side of your head as if to try and rub the area the pain is coming from and try and massage it better. The pain is so deep inside the head that you just cant reach it no matter how much pressure you put on the side of your head.
As the attack progresses its as though it gets more and more painful as if it is trying to reach a peak. A point in witch the body says no more and switches off. This has only happened to me a couple of times and i can honestly say its one of the most horrifying feelings i have ever had. When you come round your head throbs and feels like its going to explode. Your eye sight is blurry for a while and you feel light headed and sick. Then you suddenly realise you are still in pain and the attack hasn’t finished and within seconds you are back to holding your head and wishing you could just break it open and let out all the pain. Finally when the attack is over you are still left with a painful back and strange feelings like you have been stabbed all the time. You also get pains across the chest into the muscles making them spasm and scare you half to death. What a start to Christmas!
