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 Guys Im having TERRIBLE head pains!
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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Ok.. wednesday I had a very intense leg workout. I almost quit at 5 reps when I was doing 405 but I kept going for 8 w/ a spotter. Ok.. by the time I got to my 7th rep, I had a terrible throbbing pain in the back of my head. I got 1 more rep in and fell down on the bench on my back it hurt so bad. Since Wednesday, everytime I lift any weight or strain I get a terrible pain in my head.. anyone ever had this happen??? I can't do anything w/o having a terrible sharp pain in my head!!!     | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
bump | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder 
Posts: 394 |
are you on a cycle now? either way get your blood pressure checked | ||
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Cool Novice 
Posts: 36 |
I'm gonna take a guess that you're havin the same problem I'm having with my chest. I believe you were straining so hard that you prolly gritted your teeth. There are muscles in your head that you might have flexed so hard that you pulled one, unless it is a pain on the inside of your head, then you may want to get it checked out if you think it's just a muscle in your head try squeezing your teeth together and see if the muscle that comes back from your temple hurts. If so just take it easy until the pain goes away, that means no lifting, but a doc never hurts. ------------------ | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 30 |
Go see a doc... I have put my body through serious strain.. I have had workoouts that are so intense I get blood patches in my eyes from burst vessels as well as puking at the squat rack... never had anything like this did you hit your head? BRO GO SEE A FUCKING DOC!!! You might of done someting serious! | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
no i didn't hit my head. no its not a muscle in my head it doesn't hurt if i grit my teeth. only hurts if i lift weight or strain... | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1498 |
I agree with Spunky. I am beginning to think your just not cut out for this cycle shit. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
no i don't hold my breath.. breath properly.. test cyp | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 660 |
bro- I get the same shit sometimes!! I remember reading a long time ago about someone posting asking about the same pain. I have had it happen to me twice. The first time it only lasted about a week. The second time which was only a few months ago lasted for about 2-3 fucking weeks. I have racked my brain trying to figure it out. It only happens when I strain myself. Lifting hurts like shit. Orgasms make it hurt too. Are you taking a thermogenic right now or have you currently started one? The last time I got mine I remember it had started when I had begun using zenadrine. I discontinued it but it persisted for awhile. wait a while to see if it subsides. My father is a doc and I asked him about it. He really had no explaination. After 2 weeks I wanted to see someone about it, but my dad told me there is really nothing they are going to be able to do or say to explain your symptoms, just short of spending a shit of money and getting an MRI or the likes. and that might not tell you anything either. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1498 |
If you're breathing properly I am out of ideas bro. I'm no neurologist. I like cyp too I don't know why more guys don't use it. At least you got the itchies under control. Hope it clears up for you. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 50 |
That sounds a lot like a problem I had in college. I would have panicked, except that my training partner had the same problem a couple of months before. I think it's called an exertion headache, and I do believe it's the result of strained muscles in the scalp. Now this may not be what you have, which is why you should see a doctor. However, if this is what it turns out to be, don't worry. It will eventually go away (several weeks or a couple months later). Does advil help? Ice? Those are things I'd do for strained muscles. Doc Savage | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
yea clemdog, i can't jerk it anymore cuz it hurts my head... no lie either. anything that causes me to strain makes it hurt like heck!!!!!!! im gonna give it a week or 2 and see what happens.. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 660 |
yeah spunky, It sucks dick bro! Its really odd, I dont understand it. The exertion headache does sound like a possibility. The pain seems like it shoots through your temples sometimes. Last time it felt in the back of my head too, about the base of the skull. Just think, take a few days off jerking it and when you do it again you'll be able to shoot flies off the ceiling!! LOL | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
no kidding bro.. i was tuggin it in the shower and i got a bad pain in the back of my head!! | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 660 |
LOL!! Go searching through the archived topics, there seems to be more people than we think that have had this problem. type in head pains, then try headaches. Were you taking a stimulant or tyrosine? I was thinking it could be the zenadrine I was taking due to the fact that it contains products that are neurotransmitters. Tyrosine one of them that controls the release of dopamine. There was one post that seemed to find tyrosine as the culprit. | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 36 |
Bro, I think Doc Savage is right on....I've seen this twice in the past couple years..once my training partner got it and this past summer one of my clients got it. Both were training legs. I researched a little and there is such a thing as Exertional Headache...there was an article on it in Muscle and Fitness or Flex a couple years ago..I know that when my buddies had it...it lasted like a week and a half, but I've heard it can leave in a day or plague you for a month....they were out of commission it hurt so bad and pain relievers only slightly relieved their discomfort. To be safe, I'de make a trip to the doc..just to make sure...Good Luck bro... | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
nah im not taking xenadrine im bulking right now! | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 485 |
Ok, it is an exertion headache, Ive had two of them. When you go to the doc, explain it all and he should give you INDOMETHACIN, you wont be able to lift for about a week or so, so dont try or you pay the price of pain. ------------------ | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 634 |
I had the same prob with an intense pain in the bakc of my head. It happened when i was doin leg press oen day. It hurt bad and came back any time i strained or exeted myself . It went away after a week though. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 224 |
I have had this also, along with the pain I loose my hearing for a bit also, it only happens when I squat. I figured out that it only was happening when I let my carbs get too low, are you on a low carb diet or anything like that? | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
nah my carbs are fine, im bulking. That makes sense though, we were all working legs when it happened, so it must be an exertion headache. If I train through it, will it still go away? Or should i just lay off completely? | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1313 |
looks like you where holding your breath which happens especially when you are doing very heavy sets. You forced yourself too hard, that's for sure. What could have happened is: a blood vessel that popped, witch is not ideal, since this happened in your head. I don't say this was the way it went, but it sure is a possibility. If the pain stays, best is to see a doc. ------------------ Don't look back, life is too short | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 118 |
SPunky, change your name, if it hurts to yank the dumb guy, you aint spunky! LOL kiddin, ok, does it hurt your neck if you look left or right? is the pain in the head in the back and off to a side or what? describe the pain a little more? it might be a muscle strain in the cervical or trap area... happens easy when squating... let me know more about the pain and location... test the movements and let me know! | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 485 |
No Jeffrys, thats a stroke in which case he would be carried out of the gym by paramedics. ------------------ | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 449 |
I know when I hurt my back I had terrible headaches anytime I flexed. Didn't hurt to turn my head or move just when I flexed. It turned out to be muscle spasms and the doc said from the size and strength of my back it caused me to feel like someone was crushing my head. I didn't even feel the spasms but it sure hurt like hell..  | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 80 |
Go see the doc mannn!!! ------------------ | ||
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Novice 
Posts: 10 |
This same exact thing happened to me about a year ago. I was doing squats and right after I finished my last set it felt like my head was going to explode, like an intense pressure at the base of my skull. It went away in about an hour and then would come back if I tried to whack off or if I was getting laid. I tried to train through it but it would come on so bad in my first set I would have to stop. So I laid off training until it went away completely, it took about 3 weeks. I would give it a couple weeks and if it doesn't get better, go see a doc. ------------------ | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 441 |
Throbbing pain that increases with internal pressure is often vascular in nature. Depending upon the severity it can be a medical emergency. In any event it requires seeing a doctor and probably getting an arteriogram. Big guy at a gym I used to go to startled the hell out of us when the bar fell on him while doing bench. He was dead before it hit him; cerebral aneurysm. He once complained of headaches. Not to worry you my brothers, but get it checked out. Peace! ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 293 |
the same thing happened to me squatting, 2 years ago. i was natural btw. i had pain for 3 weeks when lifting or having an orgasm. a blood vessel may have popped. but don't worry. i went to a doc and he said to rest. take a couple of weeks off maybe three and it'll go away. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
momwarndu: It is mainly in the back of my head but the longer I continue to strain the more it spreads.. it eventually spreads down the back of my neck and it gets hard to even move because the pain is unbearable. I am going to try training tommorow and see if the weekend rest helped any. If it still hurts I dunno what im gonna do.. im in the middle of a cycle!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =( I can't take 2-3 weeks off.. Only thing I can think of doing is alot of cardio and light weights and turn this into a cutting cycle halfway through.. =( | ||
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Cool Novice
Posts: 20 |
There is basically one muscle that runs across the entire scalp all the way to the back of your neck. Severely strained traps could easliy manifest themselves in headaches across the scalp or temples. Since it's easy to strain your traps by squatting, based on your symptoms, this would be my semi-educated guess. If it is a strained trapezius muscle, the worst thing you could do would be to continue to train. Additional stress will only increase the damage, further weaken the muscle, increase the necessary healing time, and decrease the chances of full recovery. Better to take a few weeks off now, than to be forced to take months or years off later. It might seem like a big sacrifice, but, believe me, in the long term, it's only a couple of weeks. | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 549 |
i had that happen to me about a year ago. doing the same exercise and everything. but i had just taken ultimate orange before my workout. when i got to the gym and did my first warm up set i was fine until i started going up in weight. it hurt so fucking bad i had to go home and i couldn't but barely drive home. stopped the ultimate orange and it hurt a little bit the next day but i could still workout. hasn't happen since... out. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 151 |
YEAH YOU STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD. I HURT MINE DOING THE SAME THING, STAINING MY ASS OFF DOING LEGS. AND EVERY TIME I TRIED TO LIFT AFTER THAT IT WOULD STAIGHT POUND LIKE CRAZY. I THOUGHT I HAD BUSTED SOMETHING IN MY HEAD. I WENT TO THE DOC, AND HE TOLD ME TO TAKE A WEEK OFF. YEAH I KNOW IT SUCKS!! BUT IF YOU DON'T IT WON'T GET BETTER. I DID, AND IT HURT A LITTLE BUT ITS GETTING BETTER EVERY WEEK. GOOD LUCK BRO TAKE IT EASY. IF YOU GO TO THE DO THEY WILL GIVE YOU SOME MILD MUSCLE RELAXERS IF YOU THINK YOU NEED IT. LATER EAST_COAST_BB | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 838 |
Thanks for the advice bro's! This really sucks, cuz im almost mid-cycle and im gonna have to take a week off or atleast cut back ALOT and do some cardio or somethin..... =( Just thinkin about it makes me angry!!!!! The thing that really sucks is that my test should really be kicking in good THIS week, the week that I can't do shit!! I'm getting ready to head out to the gym, im gonna see what I can do. I rested well over the weekend, and im gonna see if the pain comes back. If it does, I guess im just gonna do some cardio! =( |
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posted November 18, 2000 10:32 PM