@lynneblundell I just discovered the same thing about a month ago. I had a headache for 3.5 straight weeks. It was a combination of a dull pain a the base of my skull, and there was a sharp pain that would “crawl”, day by day, up the back of my head, slightly to the right-hand side at “bumps” of my skull. After going to the doctor and discovering that by blood pressure was very high, I was put on a blood pressure medicine that also helps with headaches (a beta-blocker).
Anyway, it’s been about a month since I’ve been on the BP medication, and the headaches have become more infrequent (thankfully), but I do have those spots on my head that are tender. It’s the kind of tenderness that urges you to keep poking around to “feel” what the real problem could be. I mentioned it to my doctor, along with my logic that maybe there is just a little more pressure there between the bulges of the skull and the scalp that is stretched over it – and it’s that pressure that causes the tenderness.
Sorry I don’t have an actual answer, but you’re not alone.
When is the last time you checked your BP?