Head pressure, need support please.

[Black_Parasol]

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions? I know head pressure has been a frequently brought up topic on health forums. I am nineteen and suffer from strange, almost debilitating head pressure daily. It is disorienting, uncomfortable, and leaves me in a "fog" all day long so that I feel like I'm not all there.

I began having panic attacks the last four months due to stress, but I KNOW the head pressure is not caused by anxiety. In example, I am perfectly calm right now and the head pressure persists. I need to get a job and get my life started but can't because I feel awful every day. When I first wake up the symptoms are at their most mild, and as nighttime gets closer that gradually get worse and worse, to where the only relief I get is lying down. I have read about the possibility of Lyme disease, intracranial hypertension (or psuedotumor), and I have read into the effects of stress on the body. Because I cannot afford our country's ridiculous medical prices, I am trying to find ways to de-stress to see if that helps. So far, however, it has not. I avoid drinking more than one cup of coffee a day and have stuck mostly to water, and I am also cutting back on smoking (I roll my own, so I also know that the head pressure is not caused by smoking). If anyone can give me any support or advice it would be vastly appreciated - I already suffer from depression and it has gotten worse tenfold since this bizarre, confusing head pressure began about a month ago.

[Dr. A. Srivastava]

Thank you for your question. Although without being able to examine you I can not offer you the specific advice on diagnosis and treatment that you need, but I would try to provide you some relevant information about your health concern.

For persistent headaches, possibilities like migrainous, cluster, tension and refractive errors that need to be evaluated thoroughly with the help of a neurologist here. Migraine like headache can be throbbing, one sided of face & head and preceded by aura (starts with blurred vision). Cluster headache may appear as burning, explosive in nature and tear appears from eyes. Tension headache originates with stress and anxiety disorder. Please arrange an appointment with a neurologist right away who will evaluate the further underlying disorders by clinically examine you & ordering MRI or CT scan here that may be the main reasons of your headache attacks & other symptoms and can provide you an appropriate treatment. Hope this information proves helpful to you. Take Care & Regards!!!

[Black_Parasol]

Want to add - I went to the hospital a few days ago for a panic attack, they gave me a CT scan, blood tests, urine tests, and they did an EKG. All came back normal.