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What Causes Disabling Headaches For Past Three Months?

Hello,

I am a 21 year old male, and have been having disabling headaches for the past 3 months. To give a brief history, 2 years ago this past November, I woke up with some rather odd medical issues. It was my freshman year of college, and over night, I had developed a condition of some sort that left me baffled. I started having problems with speaking coherent sentences. It was hard for me to develop proper sentence structure, use correct verb tenses, and even spelling - something I've never had trouble with before in my life.
I also had this "feeling" in my head that left me feeling inhibited. I had troubles reading and comprehending what I was studying. It seemed as if I could not retain information. I started forgetting simple things that would seem almost impossible to forget. It was at this time that I had started getting headaches, and having trouble with my eyes. At this point, I suffered through my medical condition and was soon on christmas break. I saw my family physician for a checkup, and he discovered that I had stage 2 hypertension (188/91 -mind you that I was 19 at this point). After diagnosing me with "aphasia", he sent me on to a neurologist to help. I had an MRI done, and everything was "clean and normal". The doctor put me on amitriptyline before switching me to nortriptyline (50mg) because of the sedative effect it was having on me.
In regards to my high blood pressure, I made many visits to the lab, cardiologist, and nephrologist with some minor invasive procedures to figure out as to why I had this at such a young age. Nothing was found, I was just told that I had an abnormal case of adolescent hypertension. My blood pressure seems to be difficult to regulate, even now, with medication. I am currently orally taking Benicar (12.5-mg) and on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, a Hydrochlorothiazide pill (25-mg).
In the midst of all of this, I was having gallbladder attacks and ending up having my gallbladder out that was described to me as resembling a 55 year old mans.
In terms of my eyes, I have seen the eye doctor and have had every test known to mankind. Other than going through a few pairs of glasses due to my eyes worsening in nature, everything in that aspect seems fine.
After all of this, I left my "living state" alone for about a year, hoping it would all go away as it had come on. Sadly, nothing got better, only worse. This past September (2010), I started having severe neck problems that did not help my headaches any, but livable, as I am realizing after going through what I am now going through.
For the past 3 months, I have been suffering from unilateral facial pain located on my left side. The pain is about an 1 & 1/2, and located in the left eye region. (Left forehead, behind the left eye).
The pain seems to always be there. It's more of a constant pressure, and has a feeling of a forward circular rotation. The pain varies with intensity and is never consistent. It doesn't matter the time of day, however, I have noticed that I feel worse in the morning, climax early afternoon, and somewhat better in the evening, with flare ups of seemingly unbearable pain.
I feel as if I am loosing my mind. I am trying to get my education and remain as strong as possible for myself. I have seen multiple doctors with no answers. I am at my wits end, and ready to give up. What do you suggest I do?
Sun, 17 Aug 2014
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What Causes Disabling Headaches For Past Three Months?