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.