OK people, it's Internet diagnosis time!

So yesterday I was feeling fine. And then around 3PM, I started to 
develop a headache. Now I should point out that for me, a headache is a 
very rare event. And I still have *no idea* what caused this one. It's 
conspicuous that yesterday was my first day back at work after a week 
off, but other than that I can't think of anything unusual that might 
have been the cause.

Initially my eyes just felt sore, but that progressed to a stabbing pain 
in my eyes until the whole front of my skull felt like it was being 
crushed. I thought perhaps I was dehydrated, but no amount of drinking 
fixed it. I tried closing my eyes to rest them, but that did nothing 
either. And before I left work, I ate a bunch of painkillers - which 
also did nothing. (!)

I don't know how I drove home. I'm sitting behind the wheel rubbing my 
head and just wishing I could crawl into bed and quietly die. Obviously, 
I got stuck behind every possible slow-moving vehicle, just to prolong 
my suffering as long as humanly possible. (I especially remember the 
2-mile long queue behind a tractor doing 20 MPH.)

My plan was to get home, eat something (I'm quite hungry by now) and go 
to bed. Naturally, given my blatently obvious distress, my mother 
refused to lift a finger to help me prepair food and did everything in 
her power to slow the process down as much as possible to further 
prolong the agony.

This is where things get really weird. I ate a bunch of painkillers over 
an hour ago, and they still haven't had any effect. But as soon as I 
started eating food, within literally *minutes* my headache almost 
completely vanished. WTF is *that* about?!

Well anyway, I missed my dance class last night (and you *know* it's 
serious if _I_ miss dancing for /anything/). Unfortunately, even after a 
good meal, I still felt too nausious for jiggling around a dancefloor. 
But by a bit later in the evening, I felt perfectly fine.

I still don't know WTF the problem was in the first place... very weird!

Any unsubstantiated theories? Wild speculation? Baseless diagnosis?

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