Listen to what your body needs.

Maybe you should get your blood pressure checked. A visit to the doctor
now might not be a bad idea, especially if you get headaches
frequently.

Drink plenty of water, dehydration makes headaches worse. You should
drink one oz. of water per day for every pound of body weight anyway.
You can count tea, decaf coffee and natural juice in your water intake;
but, I wouldn't even count sodas or other beverages due to their high
sodium and corn syrup content.

I'd go ahead and give the doc a call, it sounds like you may have a raging
migraine.  He may be able to help you.  (I say "may" because not everyone
responds to the migraine meds, but it's worth a shot.  Headaches like that
are truly no fun at all.)

Have you changed your caffeine consumption lately? I had a migraine like
that over the weekend when I had a bad enough cold that I didn't want
coffee and instead was drinking large amounts of tea. A cup of strong
coffee and a granola bar took the edge off of it pretty quickly.

That's for short term. Whether it clears up right away or not, you
should call your doctor.

I used to get headaches like that all the time. The last one turned out not
to be a migraine and was something called Optic Neuritis or inflamation of
the optic nerve. Sensitive to light is a key symptom in ON.  Also, when I
moved my one eye to the right or left the eyeball itself was painful.  If
this sounds familiar, I would suggest you go to the ER for treatment because
it can cause a loss of vision as it worsens.  Good news is that it usually
comes back in time but why risk it.

Otherwise, dehydration and high blood pressure can cause bad headaches. Our
ER did a study and found out that some 80% of women who came to the ER with
headaches were dehyraded.  Many were very angry when they were prescribed IV
fluids before pain meds but apparently it worked.

Hang in there -- chronic headaches are not fun.  I had them from childhood
on until I was prescribed a beta blocker for high blood pressure in my mid
40's. (low bp prior to that)  The beta blocker stopped my migraines
immediately. Wish someone had tried that before!

I don't reply very often to messages. But this one just happen to be one
that I felt needed to be responded to.

Several years ago my wife had periods where she experienced headaches like
you describe, and treated them like they were just migraines. Then on
Memorial Day of 2003 we discovered that what she had thought were just
migraines turned out to be something entirely different when the aneurism,
(that had been the real cause of the headache flair-ups all along),
ruptured. She is now permanently disabled with the loss of use of her left
arm and hand, and the loss of many cognitive functions. Speaking here from
one who has witnessed someone trying to just ignore what they thought were
just simple "headaches,"  do not just ignore headaches as if they are just
something to treat lightly. My advice to anyone is, if you are having
headaches, go and get them checked out professionally, immediately, so that
you may know for certain what the cause of the headaches really is.