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Scared for my life of a brain aneurysm!!!
I am 16. I don't smoke. My family is healthy. I don't havea family history.I've never hitmy head that hard.I don'thavehighblood pressure.
Does that sound like someone who has a brain aneurysm?
For the past year, I havebeendealingwith weird feelings in my head. Pulsing (with and without pain and also in my ears), burning, pressures (in eyes and ears too), different types of headaches (normal, tension, pulsing) and other indescribable symptoms. My pediatrician asked a neurologist to do a head scan and told him I had anxiety and stress and he said he wouldn't do it. Everybody thinks I'm fine except me. I've even checked my blood pressure when I get some headaches and it's completely normal. I have recently startedexcercising, and this might be a factor too. I haveeven ridden rollercoasters with these symptoms and nothing happens to me. I havealsoheard thatbrainaneurysms don't even cause any crazy symptoms until they burst. And most of this happens on the left side of my head until recently when it began a bit on the right. The medications I take are Buspar,Risperadone,andWellbutrin. I also feel like I'm dizzy or going to faint sometimes. I have also been having sinus problems. Someone just help me, please!!!!
Does that sound like someone who has a brain aneurysm?
For the past year, I havebeendealingwith weird feelings in my head. Pulsing (with and without pain and also in my ears), burning, pressures (in eyes and ears too), different types of headaches (normal, tension, pulsing) and other indescribable symptoms. My pediatrician asked a neurologist to do a head scan and told him I had anxiety and stress and he said he wouldn't do it. Everybody thinks I'm fine except me. I've even checked my blood pressure when I get some headaches and it's completely normal. I have recently startedexcercising, and this might be a factor too. I haveeven ridden rollercoasters with these symptoms and nothing happens to me. I havealsoheard thatbrainaneurysms don't even cause any crazy symptoms until they burst. And most of this happens on the left side of my head until recently when it began a bit on the right. The medications I take are Buspar,Risperadone,andWellbutrin. I also feel like I'm dizzy or going to faint sometimes. I have also been having sinus problems. Someone just help me, please!!!!
Obviously no one is worried about your physical health. Your emotional health is something else and that is why you are on so many medications. Maybe part of your problem is that you are in the throes of puberty, a period of vast chemical changes. It affects everyone differently, but eventually resolves and you settle down. Be patient. There are people looking after you. And you do not have an aneurysm in your brain. I know someone who does. He is 79 years old.
You've been having these symptoms for a YEAR so you can totally forget about this being a brain aneurysm.
There are four different types of intracranial hemorrhage and only one, a subarachnoid hemorrage, has warning signs that can occur a few minutes to a few weeks before it ruptures. Not an entire year!
You, yourself, have already ruled out the main causitive factors in any type of aneurysm, stroke or hemorrhage.........uncontrolled high blood pressure, family history or blunt force trauma to the head. There can also be defects from the time we're born and like time bombs, none of knows when they're gonna blow. That's life. I think the neurologist was correct to say no to the CT scan knowing there was anxiety and stress involved. I'm sure if the pediatrician had shown more concern, the scan would have been done. (Your pediatrician was covering his butt in my humble and non-medical opinion)
The symptoms that have been ongoing for a year include "weird feelings in my head......pulsing (with and without pain and also in my ears), burning, pressures (in eyes and ears too), different types of headaches (normal, tension, pulsing) and other indescribable symptoms, I also feel like I'm dizzy or going to faint sometimes. I have also been having sinus problems"
Did you, by any chance, begin taking your medications around the same time as these symptoms began?
I honestly believe these symptoms have absolutely nothing to do with any sort of vascular volcanoe about to erupt......it would have a long time ago. I do think they may be related to some, or all, of your medications. Or allergies. Or a need for corrective lenses. Or chronic sinus problems/infection (which will cause headaches, pulsing sensations, dizziness, ear, eye and nose pressure, even sore throats)
You need to stop self-diagnosing from the symptom sites on the Net. Haven't you noticed yet that you can Google ANY symptom you can think of and you WILL eventually find a site that informs you of your impending demise?
I once Googled "toe pain" for fun after my big oaf of a husband stepped on my foot........this was quite a long time ago, so I don't remember all the horrible things it could be, but there was MS, severe gout, gangrene, bone cancer, RA and some sort of toe eating fungal infection that could only have been contracted if I'd been in Big Bubba's swamp in Louisiana during the outbreak in 1906.
Talk to your parents, tell them what you wrote here. Let them know you are afraid there is something very wrong with your health. Tell them you would like to see a doctor about these issues. (You're 16.....time to give up the pediatrician!) You are already being treated for some things that could be contributing to your anxiety.............perhaps you just need to have your dose adjusted.
I know you asked for someone to just help you, but none of us here is qualified to give you the kind of help you need. Only your doctor can do that, and I urge you to see him as soon as you can.
I know what it's like to be scared, as does everyone else on this forum. The only way to make that fear go away is to learn the truth.
I wish you the very best
Please write any time you'd like to talk.
Peace
Greenlydia
There are four different types of intracranial hemorrhage and only one, a subarachnoid hemorrage, has warning signs that can occur a few minutes to a few weeks before it ruptures. Not an entire year!
You, yourself, have already ruled out the main causitive factors in any type of aneurysm, stroke or hemorrhage.........uncontrolled high blood pressure, family history or blunt force trauma to the head. There can also be defects from the time we're born and like time bombs, none of knows when they're gonna blow. That's life. I think the neurologist was correct to say no to the CT scan knowing there was anxiety and stress involved. I'm sure if the pediatrician had shown more concern, the scan would have been done. (Your pediatrician was covering his butt in my humble and non-medical opinion)
The symptoms that have been ongoing for a year include "weird feelings in my head......pulsing (with and without pain and also in my ears), burning, pressures (in eyes and ears too), different types of headaches (normal, tension, pulsing) and other indescribable symptoms, I also feel like I'm dizzy or going to faint sometimes. I have also been having sinus problems"
Did you, by any chance, begin taking your medications around the same time as these symptoms began?
I honestly believe these symptoms have absolutely nothing to do with any sort of vascular volcanoe about to erupt......it would have a long time ago. I do think they may be related to some, or all, of your medications. Or allergies. Or a need for corrective lenses. Or chronic sinus problems/infection (which will cause headaches, pulsing sensations, dizziness, ear, eye and nose pressure, even sore throats)
You need to stop self-diagnosing from the symptom sites on the Net. Haven't you noticed yet that you can Google ANY symptom you can think of and you WILL eventually find a site that informs you of your impending demise?
I once Googled "toe pain" for fun after my big oaf of a husband stepped on my foot........this was quite a long time ago, so I don't remember all the horrible things it could be, but there was MS, severe gout, gangrene, bone cancer, RA and some sort of toe eating fungal infection that could only have been contracted if I'd been in Big Bubba's swamp in Louisiana during the outbreak in 1906.
Talk to your parents, tell them what you wrote here. Let them know you are afraid there is something very wrong with your health. Tell them you would like to see a doctor about these issues. (You're 16.....time to give up the pediatrician!) You are already being treated for some things that could be contributing to your anxiety.............perhaps you just need to have your dose adjusted.
I know you asked for someone to just help you, but none of us here is qualified to give you the kind of help you need. Only your doctor can do that, and I urge you to see him as soon as you can.
I know what it's like to be scared, as does everyone else on this forum. The only way to make that fear go away is to learn the truth.
I wish you the very best
Please write any time you'd like to talk.
Peace
Greenlydia
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