Heady issues

I have learned that the term "headache" is too general to be meaningful. It's like only having the word "food" to adequately describe everything you ate yesterday.

For the past week and a half I have experienced a whole new kind of headache. Allow me to enlighten. This is not your normal general kind of ache that many of us get after a long day (or a long night). I have shooting pains in my actual skull. The bone. The head wrapper, if you will. It's quite an unsettling experience.

I have a feeling it's happening because I'm moving my head around a wider radius these days. So the muscles in my neck and around my head are probably moving and stretching over the healing bone, which must still be tender. This sounds logical to me. (I'm right back to my old ways: self diagnosis has long been a gift of mine.)

The question I have: will this always be a problem? The bone will never fuse back together, after all. It now has a titanium frame around it and is screwed into my skull. Is it just tender because it's healing or is it actually shifting around slightly in response to movement around it? No matter how much time passes, wouldn't it always hurt to have your skull shifting around like a lopsided tomato crate?

And my scar has started peeling again. What's up with that?

Wah, wah, wah...


Update: during a conversation with a good friend, I had an a-ha moment. Very Dr. House like. Perhaps the increase in pain is because the nerves are starting to regenerate and places that were dead are now hurting. Anyway - it's very odd being aware of your skull as a distinct body part.