I've had a headache for about 13 months?

I also get server vertigo around once a year which can pop up at anytime and it's completely life ruining, i'm constantly living in fear

I know how awful constant headaches are---I think we all do here and will try to help.

first, ask your doctor for blood tests. Could you have an underactive thyroid? Just learnt that this can cause headaches.

next, have you had a scan? Really worth pushing for it with your dr.

While you're waiting for these, start on the basics. Rule out things like food reactions. It's rally boring but try a diet of rice, chicken and fish and seemed vegetables. Take a Vit. C tablet or drink as lots of citrus fruits trigger migraines. Stick to this diet religiously for a month to see if there are any improvements. If you're a coffee and tea drinker reduce these gradually. Cutting out the caffeine quickly can cause reaction headaches. Try to drink lots of water instead.

steam your head gently. Bowl of water with hot water in it, head over bowl, towel over head and breathe. It's cheap and might just work.

also try some relaxation exercises. I know it's difficult when your head is pounding and you want to rip your face off but it might help.

Good luck--- push your GP for a scan and blood tests tho. I can't understand why the UK is so slow to carry out tests that's are simple. In Europe it's the first thing that's done!

Sorry, should say steamed vegetables.

Ah, the vertigo gives another clue. I suspect it's sinus, or middle ear. Did you ever have glue ear as a child?  You only need a small imbalance of fluids trapped in your head cavities to cause problems.

first time I had sinusitis I'd no idea what it was. I'd i crouched down to pick something up, I couldn't stand again. It was scared, convinced myself I had a brain tumour.

it was simple to treat once I found what it was. I used lots of steam and Otrivine nasal drops.

I think you've cracked it---sounds like sinus. Especially with the airplane problem too.

i found dairy made mine worse. I have just skimmed milk in tea and cheese ( I'm vegetarian so got to eat something!) anything like yoghurt, from age frais immediately gives me blocked sinuses and headaches.

Try the steam---lots, several times a day and ask a Pharmacist about the Otrivine drops. You can get salt water sprays too and a salt water sinus wash but it's a bit grim to do. I think a Pharmacist would advise you.

best of luck 

I have also been suffering with pain and pressure for last 5 months and been prescribed several types of medication which didn't help. I learnt that the more pain killers you take the worse the pain will get so have stopped pain killers completely. I have finally seen a neurologist who was so understanding and I have been told that I have neuralgia and nerve damage caused by a bout of pneumonia I had at the beginning of January. Apparently my head goes into spasms hence the really bad days I suffer. Unfortunately there is no quick fix but she suggested exercising my neck and having neck massage whilst waiting to be referred to a pain clinic where I will apparently receive injections to ease the pain. I will also be having a MRI scan to make sure nothing nasty lurking but at least now I know what I'm dealing with and no longer feel like I 'm going crazy!