Question: So about 10 days ago I got a slight fever an excruciating head ache isolated to only in my temples and sides on my head Around 3 inches or so that waxes and wanes in intensity through out the day . It's a very small area but on both sides temple to behind the ear. Left side hurts most. the pain never goes away but the intensity fluctuates from uncomfortable to I CAN'T BREATHE IT HURTS , I would have to say if I put a number on it a constant 8.7 on the "pain scale" and when it eases off (only 2x the last 10 days) it's around a 5 ..before that I couldn't tell you bc I just shrugged it off... But now. I cant even brush my hair on the sides. I kept shrugging it off to just not resting etc. but for a good amout of time i have been getting all my calories, drinking extra gatorade, cranberry juice, sleeping, light walkkng etc.

My husband and I looked into it online and wrote it off as a tension headache. Although i have never gotten a tension headaches before... Ive been lucky to live without much more than a brain freeze and occasional headache every now and again which i could cure with rest fluids and advil etc. today I'm on day 10?11? of all this intense pain ...and I'm getting concerned mostly because:
Over the last few (2.5-ish) weeks I have noticed small 3/5inch hard lumps/masses in my temples beneath the skin. (no skin discoloration that i can see but i have hair so .. im not entirely sure)

I generally avoid doctors (hence why I am writing you guys while i wait for insurance to call me..)But, these lumps are getting bigger and more sore. The fever is not going away. (Not getting worse that i can tell eother though) I can physically see and feel my veins /arteries around my temples (especially the left side ) raised up and hardened.

Also whatever vein or artery which runs down the left side of my neck to my collar bone, pulses frequently and I find myself walking around with my hand on my neck, because it seems to lessen the pressure & makes it feel like it won't pop out if my neck or something.

Overall I am extreemly fatigued but in good spirits about life in general but i can't sleep well which is unusual for me. I have been waking up at like 3:45-5:00 am after going to bed at 11:30 or midnight and then can't go back to sleep .

have random other new muscle weakness, in my hands and arms especially- they go numb at the slightest task : holding an item for under a min without resting arm on anything. Blood flow to my hands and feet is definitely concerning and they are cold and sweaty. My legs go numb when I sit down to pee. I've had a few little bouts of like double vision/blurry vision while walking but idn if that has to do with anything....

My heart palpitates several times a day (worse when lying down.) also it has been over 100bpm for a few weeks now, but my BP is low, ..
It's hard to catch my breath walking room to room . Dizziness mostly when I stand up but also even when I am sitting down.

Ive had some sensitivity to noise or light but not that bothersome noise is what effects me if anything.

. I have a history of osteochondritis desecans(sp) as a child , anorexia nervosa, osteopenia, pneumonia etc. Also when I was in littke, I had bilateral surgery on my shins to remove a benign mass from each tibia.
Also about 3 weeks ago I had a medical procedure which could've gotten infected? Or something?

From what I've read online :
1: tension headache
2: temporal arteritis
3: giant cell something or other
4: migraine but the symptoms don't really match but I'm not a doc...
5: some kind of meningitis (rare not concerned)
6: septicemia of some sort( rare not concerned)

Any advice or your opinion on things would be super. I'm sure it's not deadly but it's pretty f@c/%ng painful and disruptive to my day

Also I have had the spells of hiccups at least once a day for around 1.5 years (obviously not continuous but they're uncomfortable)

Sorry forgot to say within the last year I stopped drinking dark soda bc it made my lower back hurt/ kidneys which I've never seen a doc for bc I didn't think it was a big deal...