For the past 3 weeks, I ve been getting really bad headaches that are almost always there. I ve tried taking prescription strength ibuprofen and advil for them but still feel the headache afterwards, with only maybe a little relief. In the past few months I ve had around 5 nights where it got so bad I couldn t sleep and even took hydrocodon, used heat pads, ice packs, everything I could think of and the pain persisted. The pain is usually on the left side of my head and my neck, and I ve even had the combined pain in my left arm (though I m not sure if thats related). Another symptom I ve also noticed but may not be related is these pimple-like bumps on my scalp that sometimes ooze and hurt and haven t gone away in the last two weeks. A friend of mine mentioned it could possibly be a brain tumor? I ve never really had headaches before this past year, and they seem to be getting worse. My diet, lifestyle, and stress levels have been relatively constant as well so I don t believe anything there could have caused these chronic headaches.