Light Headed with Pressure behind eyes and head

[teejy]

Hi, I am 33 years old and considered to be in good health (except for recently experiencing lightheaded moments and pressure behind my eyes and in my head). I have had a CT Scan, blood work, EKG, Echo, Xrays and urine cultures and they all are normal. My blood pressure and sugar level are also normal. My family medicine doctor can't find anything, yet this pressure is is constant with feelings of being light headed on and off. Can anyone please give me insight on possible solutions/remedies?

[mariaj30]

I was just reading this, I had cervical spine surgery 4 years ago and ever since I get terrible dizzyness, light headed, pressure behind eyes and in head, terrible panic attacks....

[Dr Sharma]

Hi there. Since much has been investigated and looked into, these headaches could be due to stress, anxiety, migraines or tension headaches, sinus headaches radiating to the ear, headache usually front of head, on one or both  the sides of temples along with nausea, vomiting, irritability, low blood pressure, sensitivity to lights, sound, etc. aura associated with migraines could include blind spots, blindness in half of your visual field, paresthesia, weakness or visual hallucinations. Your vision needs detailed testing by an ophthalmologist. Hypertension and hypotension need to be checked. An MRI brain is warranted to rule out any intracranial lesion particularly aneurysm and MRI spine for ruling out cervical spondylosis and degenerative disc disease.  Temporal tendinitis mimics migraines including TMJ pain temporal headaches, tooth sensitivity, neck and shoulder pain. Treatment includes injecting local anesthetics and other medicines, moist heat muscle relaxants and NSAIDs along with physiotherapy. Multiple sclerosis would also need to be excluded. Treatment for migraines include drugs that prevent the attack like anti convulsants and drugs which treat an attack like triptans, ergots etc your queries should pertain to all these possible differential diagnoses. Trigeminal neuralgia needs to be considered. If the neurologist and radiologist are suspecting a cerebral aneurysm, they can confirm with cerebral angiography and clipping of the aneurysm could be done. Hope this helps. Take care.