Question: I am a 38 yo female with Factor V Lieden. I am on Coumadin for life following bi-lateral PEs nearly 6 years ago. I had a full hysterectomy just over a year ago due to a cancer scare. Pathology came back with no cancer. Still have my ovaries but no fallopian tubes. Recently, I have been diagnosed with three small basal ganglia (not acute) strokes via MRI after I complained of an ongoing headache that I have had for 3 1/2 months now. No history of headaches before. These headaches are worse with movement and much worse when I exercise. The headaches seem to move around my skull. Sometimes in my face (jaw, nose, eyes), sometimes in the side or back of my neck, sometimes in the back of my head or on the side of my head. Sometimes my scalp is tender to touch. I have tinnitus which is also worse when the headache is worse. Pain scale varies day by day. Today I am at a 7. I knew today would be bad as I went to bed with the headache at a 2 but I could feel it getting worse. I woke with the headache at a 5 then went running and headache spiked to a 9. My headache doctor has given me muscle relaxants to help but they have not touched the headache pain at all. They simply make me drowsy. My neurologist suggests I have tension headaches but I am doubtful as I have been using his meds, calling him once to change the meds (Feurecet and flexoral) a month in to treatment to different muscle relaxants (Tinzindine) (not sure of the spelling of these meds).