How do brain met headaches feel?

[Sherryg683]

Just a question for those of you who have brain mets. Exactly what sort of headaches have you experienced? Are they more in the front, around temple, in the back or all over? Do brain met headaches have a common characteristic. I have just had awful, consistant headaches that start from the back of my neck (mostly on left side) and run up to my occipital bone in the back of my head. They just don't seem to go away and it's been over a month. It also hurts on the right side sometimes, just not as bad. Sometimes it feels like a sharp pinch or stabbing and it hurts when I sleep. I had a brain MRI done a little over 3 months ago in the middle of one of these episodes and it all came back clear. I have other brain MRI's earlier when I was having the headache in the front (like sinus) and they were all clear too. I have had neck problems and my hubby and Oncologist seem to think they are because of my neck or stress headaches, someone even suggested migranes but of course I worry about the worst. I just feel stupid to keep asking for MRI's and they all keep coming out clean, don't want to be like the boy who cried wolf. I am just tired of my head hurting and don't like to take pain pills all the time. Can anyone who has had brain mets shed some light on how these headaches feel. I haven't had any vision problems or thrown up or anything...sorry to ramble...it's the headache causing met to do this..lol..sherryg683