Pseudotumor Cerebri? Just anxiety?

[barefoot27]

I have had issues over the last 15 years and just saw a video on pseudotumor cerebri or Intracranial Pressure and for the first time have thought maybe thats whats causing my head pressure.  If anyone can knows anything about this i'd love some feedback on if it sounds like i just have anxiety or something else.   Well below is the timeline of my story

-at 17 i started twitching my head and doctors said i had a tic disorder or tourettes.
The twitching started the same time i started having a constant head pressure that has lasted for 15 years now.  Sometimes just a constant pressure and if my sinuses are bad its a throbbing. (mainly towards the top/front) and i have also had a constant sore upper neck since then.

-22 started losing my hair (probably unrelated but would throw this in since i didn't know anyone else losing theirs this young and wondered if it was lack of blood flow in my head/scalp).

-24 I got OCD out of nowhere.  I was going through a break up which probably caused it but I went from 0-100 with OCD in a month.  I now have routines for everything.

at this point people would notice something off about me within minutes or ask if I was on drugs since i couldnt keep still.

-at 28 i had a sinus infection (i get these 4-6 times a year and always have bad sinuses).  This particular morning I laid down for a couple minutes and couldnt sit back up, i thought i was having a stroke and told my brother to call an ambulance.  I felt all the blood rushing to my head and was ready for something in my brain to pop, i would hear a click noise and feel all the blood rush back down through my body and it was the most relieving feeling in the world.  About 10 seconds later it would start up again and repeated this for hours.  I got a cat scan and they saw my sinus infection and assumed that was it.  My pupil in my right eye was the size of my entire eye and stayed like this for a week.  over the next month i had terrible panic attacks, slowly had to be re introduced into public places and would wake up and start shaking uncontrollably.  Since this day I also get a knumbness in my left two fingers on my left hand.

A month later I had an mri since i was still having my attacks but it showed small traces of my sinus infection still there but nothing else.  I saw a neurologist who never actually talked to me, his assistant wrote everything down and he didnt see me because my mri was fine.  psychologist didnt know what to do.  Acupuncture and meditation did nothing.  chiropractor didnt work (trying to relieve upper neck and head pressure)

Over the past 4 years I have just been dealing with this terrible head pressure, anxiety, ocd, daily panic attacks and constantly cracking my head due to a combo of my tic disorder and the fact it relieves head pressure for about 1 second.

I just heard about pseudotumor cerebri and the fact that i have such a strong head pressure and their is a way to help that made me wonder.  I also feel like my head is under water or full of liquid and i can hear a whoosh or vibrating feeling in my ears when i yawn and i can feel my pulse through my ears when my sinuses get bad or i lean forward for more than a few seconds (which kind of matches pseudotumor cerebri as well).  I also have a stiff/sore neck at all times and can't even look down to read because it hurts my neck after about 20 seconds.  (I read pseudotumor cerebri can also cause this due to your breathing causing posture issues).

So i'm wondering what I could do to see If i have pseudotumor cerebri or my anxiety/sinuses just cause my head pressure.  Anyone know much about this?


my other thought is maybe i just have bad sinuses that go through my ears/head which causes the head pressure, ear throbbing/pulsing and the sinuses could be the pop i hear when i crack my neck?