This is just something to be considered, particularly in the first year or two after a stroke when every head pain must be something to do with my stroke…am I going to have another one. We’ve all been there!
But some Headaches may be nothing more sinister than a sign of hearing or vision loss. Hearing loss causes strain in the same way that eye strain does and brings on headaches.
I had a TIA 25th Dec. 2020; left side of brain, right side of body affected.
About 6mths after my TIA, I started getting pain in my head on the left side. Sometimes it might last minutes to an hour, other times it would be on and off for days, so I could never really figure out any particular pattern to it or activity to it or anything. Then by about December 2021 I started noticing a dip to my hearing particularly in the evenings; sometimes with the head pains and sometimes without.
By February 2022, I was getting concerned and saw my doctor. She referred me to both Neurology and ENT. Fortunately ENT got me in first in April and the result of it was I’m deaf! Well, “hard of hearing” or some such thing but anyway…
I needed hearing aids in both ears and from that day to this, I haven’t had that pain in my head! Oh and Neurology came up blank, had scans and what not with no signs of anything untoward.
So if you are suffering frequent, sporadic headaches/sharp pains in your head and you haven’t had your hearing or eyesight checked recently, consider this next time you see your doctor if it hasn’t already been considered and ruled out
Don’t soldier on weary of those headaches/pains being stroke related or ominous. They don’t always have to turn out that way.
And just so you know, if anyone is consider them, my hearing aids are light, discreet…and no, I’m not trying to flog you Tena Lady , sit behind my ears without notice, you don’t even feel you’ve got them on.
They don’t get in the way of your glasses, you can wear headphones with them and they are free on the NHS. You can get a more techy with them by tuning them into your phone and things but that’s just beyond me now.
But I must, must, MUST always remember to take them off when getting in the shower That’s because I forget I’ve got them on
They are the best thing since sliced bread 'cos I can hear EVERYTHING And I never realised just how much I couldn’t hear until I got them. I’ve had them a year now and I wouldn’t be without them. Oh, I can still hear after a fashion without them, I can still converse without them and I’d hear alarms in the night when I haven’t got them on in bed. But I wouldn’t be without them during the day anymore!
EDIT:
Then by about December 2021 I started noticing a dip to my hearing particularly in the evenings;
I forgot to clarify remark. It was like the volume was gradually being turned down throughout the evening until it was turned of altogether…deaf as a doorpost! Nothing to do but go to bed, and the it would be right as rain in the morning again.