since she was a child. over time they got worse. she s learned to identify what kind of headache is coming on. now she can put into words the type of pain that she s experiencing as. tension headaches all involved pressure not a hammering or anything like that more of a pressure as if you were wearing something tight wrapped around your head. and migraines come either from the right or the left and that s a kind of throbbing or hammering in your head. when i had my. eyes to see you. these days she s managed to get the migraines under control thanks to a category of drugs called triptans. every 3 months she s given a low dosage injection of the neurotoxin botox.