I've had cluster headaches my whole life. As a kid I would describe them as "a 40 foot tall giant hammering an ice pick through my skull into my eyeball". Tried a lot for a long time, nothing worked. Sometimes standing in the hottest shower possible until I inexplicably throw up and then feel perfectly fine works, sometimes it doesn't.
There's really no understating the pain, it is not "2 dimensional", which is what I would use to describe every other form of pain I have experienced. It has a shape with immense depth and detail.
Then I got a pretty severe concussion and I mentioned to my doctor at one of the checkups months afterwards that I haven't had any since, they casually threw out "it's entirely possible you're still experiencing them and you just can't feel them now". Scared the hell out of me, but what're you gonna do? They did eventually come back. If we figure it out in my lifetime I'll be damn impressed.
All that said, I wouldn't want to turn pain off. It's important to learn to live with and through it, whatever the source might be, if it cannot be fixed.
It is not like you have a whole lot of choice in the matter so learning how to cope with it is pretty much imperative, besides, the GP may have dependents or other big responsibilities.
I also experienced stabbing sensations like that, although not that severe. For me the root cause turned out to be my diet. Fixed the nutritional deficiencies and accidentally discovered food intolerances. Still have some neurological issues but much better now
There's really no understating the pain, it is not "2 dimensional", which is what I would use to describe every other form of pain I have experienced. It has a shape with immense depth and detail.
Then I got a pretty severe concussion and I mentioned to my doctor at one of the checkups months afterwards that I haven't had any since, they casually threw out "it's entirely possible you're still experiencing them and you just can't feel them now". Scared the hell out of me, but what're you gonna do? They did eventually come back. If we figure it out in my lifetime I'll be damn impressed.
All that said, I wouldn't want to turn pain off. It's important to learn to live with and through it, whatever the source might be, if it cannot be fixed.