Question: hiya!

i have a question about headaches.. often when im stressed or sick, i get headaches that start in my neck and will radiate all over my head and feel like a im being squeezed bit there will also be random stabbing, sharp pains... while i have the headache, the pain sort of shifts around and while the whole head will be tender and sore, usually pain settles in one or both temples. when i massage my neck and shoulder on the side of the temple that hurts, it goes away but comes back soon after i stop.

the headaches usually start later in the day and last until i fall asleep, whixh is sometimes hard because the psin is pretty bad. the next day i might be tender in the neck and head and will get another headache easily if i positon my head the wrong way. i am just recovering from the flu and i had a horrible headache for days which reminded me of the problem but it used to happen really often.

i dont really get sensitive to anything, or really nauseous but the pain is pretty intense and distracting so its hard to concentrate on anything.

i do hold all of my tension in my neck and shoulders but i didnt think a tension headache could be so specific. i thought it was a more general ache. this is a persistent sharp, nagging pain.

could this be temporal arteritis? is it just a nasty tension headache? it doesnt exactly sound like migraine...

thanks