Welcome to my world

My world: For the past seven years, I've experienced extreme pain every few minutes knifing through my head. Obviously, not a good thing, so I went to the doctor. First a family practitioner, then another, then a psychiatrist, psychologist, two neurologists, an orthodontist, a couple of specialists, an alternative healer, a chiropractor, a nutritionist, and an acupuncturist. (I'm currently looking for a good witch doctor.) I've had a cat scan, an MRI, and tons of blood work. I now know a lot of things that aren't causing my headaches.
Finally, my dad mentioned ice pick headaches. Out of all my research, I'd never heard of them. Apparently they affect less than 2% of the population, and are pretty much what they sound like - excruciating pain that hits every so often. I found a discussion forum and read the whole thing at once. Quite honestly, I was crying by the time I finished. Not because it upset me to read about so many people with such frightening, horrible pain and suffering, but because I was so happy that I wasn't the only one!
Here are some of the things I found most interesting:
-One woman had broken a dish once to grab her head
-A man wrote about how he was angry because it didn't seem fair to have that much pain
-Some lucky people only get them twice a month or so, but it's still scary enough they needed to find out what it was
-People worry that they're having a stroke, or aneurysm, or dying
-Those who have experienced both, say the ice pick headaches are worse than the pain of childbirth, cancer, and gunshot wounds
-There is no cause or cure
-One woman, who is now in her 50's, said she's had them since she was 17 or so, and is still alive

TRANSLATION: the good news is - it won't kill you and the bad news is - it won't kill you

Now that I finally know what it is, and that I won't magically be able to cure it with medication, or surgery, or lifestyle changes, I need to figure out how to live gracefully with chronic pain, and without hope.