Back in the old old days, for many years "Before Sarno", I would get what I called "5-ibuprofen headaches". They always occurred on a day of no commitments (like a weekend) and they started within minutes of waking up. I would be awake, feeling normal, still lying in bed and maybe thinking about what to do with a day off, when I would literally feel pain suddenly start like a muscle spasm at the back of my neck, travel up and across the top of my head, and settle on one side, sort of behind one eye. I would be disabled with the sudden pain.
The "cure" was three ibuprofen and a cup of strong tea (provided by my then spousal unit) followed by two or three hours of sleep, and two more ibuprofen when I woke up. This would allow me to get up with just remnants of the pain, but I would be shaky and fragile the rest of the day.
This is one of several miscellaneous TMS symptoms that I realized later had never occurred again after I did the work back in 2011/2012. Mind you, those headaches were not the symptoms that brought me to a TMS crisis in the summer of 2011. Those symptoms took longer. Feel free to read my profile story for the details if you like.
A dizziness and balance specialist conjectured that I might be a migraineur (I think today they would use the term "vestibular migraine". I can still have minor setbacks with balance symptoms if I'm not mindful. However I stopped seeing that practitioner as soon as I discovered Dr Sarno and this forum in 2011, and I am only reminded about that diagnosis occasionally.
