Hello Doctor. I have a question regarding occasional skull pain with sharp shooting pains that make me stop doing what I am doing, then it goes away as fast as it comes up. today I have had five while in the grocery store and continue to have them now that I am home.
There are different kinds of stabbing headaches, but the first I can think of corresponding to your description is cluster headache (HA), which is a primary HA which is rare, and happens more often in adult male smokers. Cluster HA is commonly one-sided. The HA happens in clusters every day for a number of days or even weeks. It disappears for months then, but can happen again. To abort a HA you can use oxygen 100% by mask, or trip tans (like sumatriptan) subcutaneous or ketamines intravenous. The prophylactic treatment consists of calciblockers (verapamil) more often and corticosteroids.