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No, diagnosed as 'cluster headaches'. I'm lucky like that!
I have a neighbour a few floors down who'd had constant headaches from a young age and aged 55'ish or around that age, maybe older, ended up seeing an osteopath who specialised in headache type problems. This osteopath diagnosed his headaches as caused by a forceps birth where the baby is pulled from the mothers vagina by the forceps clamped around the baby's head.

After a small fortune was spent on several treatments his headaches were gone. My neighbour said it seemed to involve loads of pressure and pushing and pulling on his head and neck to separate something on his head which would have happened with a natural birth and which he didn't have a clue about what the osteopath was saying.

He was livid when I spoke to him in the lift one morning. He said a life time of crap tablets from his doctor some of which buggered up his stomach and gave him a stomach ulcer and other problems and all of which did nothing for the headaches.

The alternative treatment worked though. He hasn't had a headache since. He reckoned it was the best money he'd ever spent and sod the NHS and all their useless tablets, his words not mine.
 
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About a year ago a Starbucks was built in a very difficult spot in our neighborhood, and I said to my wife with the traffic flow how can the customers get to the store.

It seems I was wrong as people seem somehow to cross 2 lanes of traffic to get to it.

This Starbucks is always crowded, which to me is crazy.
 
No, diagnosed as 'cluster headaches'. I'm lucky like that!
About 6-7 years ago I woke up one morning with the most unbelievable headache. Actually it was more in my right eye, or just above it.
I have never felt anything like it.
I wanted to gouge my eye out.

I can't remember how long it lasted for, (a good few hours) and even days later I could still feel it, (like you would if you'd say twisted your ankle a few days before), but not quite as severe.

I looked up the symptoms and it said it was a cluster headache.

I had them a few times more after that, but not for a good while now.
 
After a small fortune was spent on several treatments his headaches were gone. My neighbour said it seemed to involve loads of pressure and pushing and pulling on his head and neck to separate something on his head which would have happened with a natural birth and which he didn't have a clue about what the osteopath was saying.

I can understand this. I've had pressure that I was not aware of cause headaches. My experience is sort of the opposite example. Instead of applying pressure to fix headaches, I had a source of pressure, probably on nerves, removed.

As a kid, I got headaches quite often. At the age of 25, I had all wisdom teeth taken out. They had never erupted, but they were impacted. Since then, I only once in a while get sinus or tension headache

The impacted teeth (they were showing as being sideways in my jaw in xrays) probably had been a source of pressure causing the regular headaches.

Also as a kid, I had an upper orthodontic plate to straighten my front tooth as well as widen my palate. I had to turn a tiny screw a quarter of a turn each day to widen the space. Each time I did this, I would have a slight headache for a while after.
 
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