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still experiencing head pressure loss of coodination and creative though and soforth

hello everyone.  Im writing again in regards to the post that I got no answers from and Im kinda gettin tired of it.  Anyway, I wanted anyone here on the site that has had pressure in the head, painaches and migrianes, and loss of coordination, motivation, etc. that I have been going through a horrible time experiencing the very same.  I was diagnosed by my doctor nearly a month ago with pertussis or whooping cough.  It wasnt long after that that I began to feel very strange.  Im an artist and musician so creative thinking and the like are a mainstay with me, but I began to feel very off.  It began withe constant pains headaches pressure in my skull mainly on the left side of the head.  It has not stopped and I am sick and tired of stupid docrors giving ridiculous and useless theories in medicine that do nothing.  I have not yet figured an y of this out and my doctor told me he thought it might be hypertension and put me on blood pressure meds.  If anyone has any idea of the hell this is or has been able to beat this whatever it is, please say so.  It almost feels as if part of me has taken.
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You asked if you had a bleed.  Well, I did say in my first post that you may have a bleed in the brain, but since you've had headaches now for a week, it's sort of unlikely that you had a stroke, but just to be on the safe side, I put it up front.  Altho it is true some people have a bleed and don't know it, the symptoms will usually indicate you have had one, altho they are normally much more substantial than yours and include a vast list of abnormalities to include problems with handwriting, speaking, bad headache, sometimes seizures, sometimes vomiting, loss of control of muscles on one side of the body, and so forth.  

You asked what might be the outcome of a bleed in the brain.  Let us say you had a weakened blood vessel and it swelled and leaked a little.  Blood and brain fluids do not mix, and this can cause some brain cells to die, thus some of the symptoms of stroke.  However, this does not mean forever you won't be able to function with brain injury; in fact, neurons tend to find new pathways to follow to allow the body to work like it's supposed to, altho it can take time.  Usually if docs find you've had a major stroke and lots of bleeding, they will want to operate and get all that dead tissue and blood out of there, and then you would undergo rehab.  And then sometimes if a person has had a small aneurysm, this can make it more likely they will have a major stroke and this can kill them.

But try not to think about a bleed right now.  This is just SO unlikely.  And since you are obviously concentrated on the worst-case scenario, I told you to go to the ER and let them scan your brain and see if something is wrong in there.  That way you'd be more open to what I think is REALLY going on, which would be your head is all clogged up from the whooping cough you had, and this can cause a terrible earache, which you had said the headache was concentrated on one side, and so this suggests fluid buildup in the ear from infection, and that's why I said you should visit an ENT doc to have him look in your ears, nasal cavities, and your throat for any serious swelling, which if any of those things are goofed up from pertussis, then you could wind up with this awful headache.

I might add that people who have migraines, which you did not indicate this was one of those, rather this came on shortly after a bout of whooping cough, but migraines WILL sometimes temporarily cause some loss of muscle control, which you reported in your original post.  No one really knows how come people get migraines, but it is usually something that happens out of the blue and stays with you most of your life, and people take medicine to reduce its blinding, crushing, disabling effects, however brief they might be.

Hope these explanations clarify what I posted before.  Let us know how things are going.  Also, you could tell us more about how the whooping cough episode affected your breathing, your hearing, if you still have a runny nose, that sort of thing.  Might narrow things down to a sinus issue.  Also would be interesting to know if your neck hurts a lot or the muscles in your shoulder, and if this coordination thing is on the same side or opposite side of where your head hurts, and whether it's your upper body or lower body that is weak.  Might suggest you hurt your neck whilst doing all that coughing.
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Dear gregg,
Thank you for your advice.  Is it possible I migt have bleeding in the brain?  Im kinda scared right now but Im gonna go to the er asap and hopefully they wont turn me away.  I dont think I can wait for another visit to my physician.  I dont know wat else to expect.  If its bleeding that took place, what would be thwe possible outcome? Help!
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If you were diagnosed with whooping cough, and you recall doing a lot of coughing and such, then it's POSSIBLE you have had an unfortunate bleed in the brain, which you can go to the ER and they'll run you thru a CT scan machine, and the pictures will show if something like that happened.

If the scan comes up okay, then you can consider visiting an ear nose throat ENT doc, because a lot of times an earache can develop after an upper respiratory infection that spreads up into the sinuses, and this can hurt like crazy.  And when a person is in pain, they cannot think straight.  This does not address your muscle coordination, but you know what, coughing as hard as people do who have pertussis, you could have wrenched your neck and even damaged a nerve, and this is making you wonky with your movements.  And if THAT is the case, then you go from the ENT over to a neurologist.

Those would be my thoughts on what you have.  If these are not correct because you know otherwise, then tell us more.
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