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Heavy headed feeling
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Heavy headed feeling
by worried 2, Oct 26, 2005 12:00AM
Hello
Ever since 2 months ago I began having a constant severe tension headache, and feeling like a heavy bag of sand is sitting on my head at all times, deep inside my head literally feels like its numb or "asleep". Also have had some positional dizziness/eye spasms-- also when I bend over forward it feels like the blood pressure builds up intensly behind my nose area. And a "fizzeling" sound from my neck, when I move my head around, that wasn't there before. I am 30 years old.
What brought this on I don't know, I did have a very stiff back a couple weeks before it started... but the doctor ordered a series of MRI and MRA which are negative except this:
Cervical spine MRI reports "evidence of strengthening of the normal cervical lordosis, but no kyphosis is evident" .What exactly does this mean? My doctor isn't concerned by this finding. What else can be causing my symptoms?
Below is a link to some of my MRI, how does this look to you? (on a side note, what is that WHITE MASS in my lung?? - it wasn't reported by the radiologist either:
http://www.angelfire.com/ab9/alpha123011010/album/MRI_lung.jpg
Based on my research, I should also have an angiogram done by CT because of the MRA's limitation, correct?
Doctor's Answer
by CCF-Neuro-M.D.-PW, Oct 27, 2005 12:00AM
Exaggeration of the normal cervical lordosis just refers to the posture of the neck and the normal curve that you see of the vertebrae - it probably means you could improve your neck posture, see a physical therapist for this
Kyphosis just means a transverse curvature in the spine from left to right and is abnormal, but relatively common.
The MRI you provide is only one small part of the MRI of your brain and I cannot comment on it alone. I do not read lung scans, but normal structures can appear as bright on MRI as well such as blood flow in the heart or aorta (which I suspect it may be), if you are still worried have your doctor check with the reading radilogist.
CT angiography is in an early stage of use, but MRA is usually suffiencent as a screenign tool, CTA has not replaced it.
Good luck
Kyphosis just means a transverse curvature in the spine from left to right and is abnormal, but relatively common.
The MRI you provide is only one small part of the MRI of your brain and I cannot comment on it alone. I do not read lung scans, but normal structures can appear as bright on MRI as well such as blood flow in the heart or aorta (which I suspect it may be), if you are still worried have your doctor check with the reading radilogist.
CT angiography is in an early stage of use, but MRA is usually suffiencent as a screenign tool, CTA has not replaced it.
Good luck
I to have been suffering from what my GP and the others i have seen have told me is a servere tension headache. My head also feels heavy and i have had a persistent (Same) headache for 2 months now). I have also been experiencing stabbing pains behind my eye which i have been told is just because i have had the headache for so long. My headache is sometimes like a sore ache feeling but also can be throbbing and the intensity of the headache can be crippling on days. I have been told it is stress related but i am only 22 and lead a stress free life.
I suffer from dizziness too especially after getting out of a hot bath (which sometimes helps releive the pain but never gets rid of it). I have had two CT scans that came back clear and a chest x ray which also showed a small white mass but although i was a little concerned i was assured it was nothing to worry about so i wouldnt worry. If it was anything the radiologist would of picked up on it. The headache has usually always been located in my temple region on the left hand side of my head. Is this the same region as yours?
Other sypmtoms include:
Trouble sleeping
Sore neck (sometimes)
Fever
Does this sound familar to your case? It is getting to the stage were i am sick to death of every day my head hurting.
I also feel like I'm in a constant daze like I've been hit over the head with a hammer and im "seeing stars"
I also have this constant, uneasy, nausea that emminates out of my upper abdomen.
I wonder if this is an adrenal tumor, or something located in a totally different place than my head causing a distant effect? My doc would laugh if i asked for a full body MRI but I want one. feeling so sick is not good for any of us, good luck
There also a very slight feeling in my cheeks/top of my nose.
Breathing through my nose also causes pain & When I move my head