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jess
09/17/08
Category: Migraine

painful pressure-like headache during sleep

I have frequent headaches and migraines. I also tend to get a painful, pressure-like feeling in my head from sleeping, is this normal?  The best way to describe the feeling is like a compression on my head, making my whole skull ache.  It seems to be affected by whatever my head is…

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