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What Causes Occasional Skull Pain?

Hello Doctor. I have a question regarding occasional skull pain with sharp shooting pains that make me stop doing what I am doing, then it goes away as fast as it comes up. today I have had five while in the grocery store and continue to have them now that I am home.
Thu, 19 Feb 2015
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There are different kinds of stabbing headaches, but the first i can think of corresponding to your description is cluster headache (HA), which is a primary HA which is rare, and happens more often in adult male smokers. Cluster HA is commonly one sided. The HA happens in clusters everyday for a number of days or even weeks. It disappears for months then, but can happen again.
To abort a HA you can use oxygen 100% by mask, or triptans (like sumatriptan) sbcutaneous or eegotamines intravenous. The prophylactic treatment consists of calciblockers (verapamil) more often and corticosteroids.
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What Causes Occasional Skull Pain?

There are different kinds of stabbing headaches, but the first i can think of corresponding to your description is cluster headache (HA), which is a primary HA which is rare, and happens more often in adult male smokers. Cluster HA is commonly one sided. The HA happens in clusters everyday for a number of days or even weeks. It disappears for months then, but can happen again. To abort a HA you can use oxygen 100% by mask, or triptans (like sumatriptan) sbcutaneous or eegotamines intravenous. The prophylactic treatment consists of calciblockers (verapamil) more often and corticosteroids.