The headache is. Called episodic paroxysmal hemicrania. Frequently misdiagnosed as a variant Of cluster headaches. It is an ice pick type pain, unrelenting, but will sometime
Come in bursts of half an hour or so. Stop for a bit and resume. And then out of the blue it just stops. Could be two weeks or two years before it reappears.

It is frequently referred to now as an Indocin headache because < > it is relieved by only Indocin. Not narcotics, not ibuprofen. Indocin. I keep it in my purse at all times since there’s no telling when it will hit. A neurologist in Atlanta found it