warning: ancient crone blood

Has anyone ever had a headache where:

• no pain if they are laying down (at least, after a couple minutes)
• immediate stabbing pain if they sit up (only on one side of the head, though the side may change)
• the pain may dull after awhile of sitting up
• the pain is only on one side, around/just behind one ear, and feels like pressure or maybe a lance going through the head
• sometimes there is also inner ear pain on that side of the head
• it has lasted at least four days

I know all the medical thingies say if you experience a weird headache to go to a doctor, but this one feels SO weird (like, even my nurse-mom is like, "I'll have to think about that one") that I just worry-from-past-experience that if I go to a doctor they will do things like make me have moar brain scans (have had maybe three in the past year? and they were all fine); refer me to a specialist for whom I'll have to wait a long time; give me painkillers that are super strong and also trigger mania which is no good; decide in the end that it is either psychosomatic or a side effect of one of my meds and they can't actually do anything about it, or it will have gone away by the time my appointment with the specialist actually comes.
It's nice when you have confidence in the medical system, see?

So anyway, not expecting Medical Advice (TM) for which I will sue if it doesn't work or something, just wondering if I am the only one this has happened to or if it shares commonalities with anyone else's weird headaches. Because sometimes I really do wonder if I am going "crazy" in the negative, stereotyped-by-the-media sense of the word.

I've been suffering annoyingly-frequent migraine/tension headaches lately, and noticed that there wasn't an active place on dreamwidth to discuss them (at least according to some discussions I've seen).

Therefore, I have created a community for it! headache is open to sufferers of all types of headaches, be they sinus, tension, migraine, something else, or a godawful combination of all three. Please see the community profile for information on community guidelines.

Cross-posted to dw_community_promo