sick headache

Example Sentences

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Like Middleton, he had physical symptoms, which he described as “a sick headache, a heavy dull feeling, until it is as if a band of steel were around my head.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hayfever is closely related to asthma, hives, eczema, certain forms of food sensitivity, some forms of sick headache, occasionally colitis.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sick headache, that nuisance in households one of whose members suffers therefrom, last week received close study at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. McCluskey was so mad that she got a sick headache and spots before her eyes and had to lie down for two days.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson