25 Struggles Only People with Chronic Headaches Will Understand. Most people walk around day-to-day without being in pain, but some of us don’t have that luxury. Whether it’s tension headaches, cluster headaches, or full-blown migraines, some of us walk around with constant pain banging around in our head. This crappy condition can make us nauseous, dizzy, lightheaded, angry, upset, and a list of other symptoms that the average person couldn’t stand. Seriously, we chronic headache sufferers have a much higher pain tolerance than the average cookie, which basically makes us superheroes.
That pain tolerance doesn’t come without a lot of practice, though. The only reason we can make it through stubbing our toe like it was just another Tuesday is because we’ve dealt with more intense pain time and time again. People that suffer from chronic headaches play by a different set of rules than everyone else because we have to.
If you suffer from migraines or horrible headaches, I know what you’re going through. Truly. Not one of those “I know what you’re going through because I had a sinus headache once.” I’ve been curled up in the bedroom, under the covers, in the pitch-black darkness more times than I can count; more times than I wanted to be, for sure.
If that sounds more familiar than you want it to, you’re probably a chronic headache sufferer, and these are 25 things that you’ll definitely understand. As migraine sufferers, we gotta stick together, and these are some things that we’ll only understand.
