Headache Log : Pre-Teen

I began getting headaches sometime in middle school.  Who knows what kind they were or what the cause was.  I didn't realize then that they'd only get worse and more frequent and I'd probably have them for the rest of my life.  For a long time it never occurred to me to tell my parents about them or see a doctor about them because they were just headaches - it's not like they were anything serious.  Yet, oddly enough, I was secretly afraid I had a brain tumor.  I would sort of "joke" with my friends about having a brain tumor and they would reassure me in their best Arnold impersonation voice, "it's not a tumor".