Anyone feel like brain too big for skull?

[donna200]

Hi everybody,
Back again -am venting . I walk around feeling like my skull cant contain my brain.  The neurologist assures me I dont have a swollen brain, but I have had constant pressure that started in the back of my head and now just feels like it's all over for  months.... makes it hard to move arms ands legs without feeling like head pressure comes bearing down to point that my legs feel glued to floor.  I have been treated for Lyme treatment and before this just had headaches that were excruciating but now is constant pressure.
Can anyone relate? Anyone treated for Lyme have this?
Thanks so much!

[SaratogaNurse]

Oh, and our brains ARE too big for our skulls...   that's exactly how it feels.   I told my NL yesterday that I would like him to insall a little pressure valve that I could turn every once in a while...   just to release a little pressure.   I have that dream periodically... where I just have a little knob on the back of my head.  :-)

[SaratogaNurse]

Hi Donna,

I was diagnosed with and treated for Lyme last year.  This was before my Chiari diagnosis.  I was having shoulder pain, neck pain, and headaches (from chiari) so after a while I complained to my doctor (who I work with) and she sent me into the lab for some blood work.  We did a Lyme titer, RA, and various other things.   My lyme test actually came back positive and I took the 21 days of Doxycycline - which is like 21 days of morning sickness, but it's the best treatment for lyme, so I stuck it out.   Symptoms didn't go away so we retreated with 30 days of Amoxicillon...  which, oddly, seemed to help the symptoms for a while (maybe it was in my head?).  Symptoms came back AGAIN and I was off to see the Infectious disease doctor who said "You don't have Lyme disease."   I'd had a false positive test.   At that point I was told the shoulder pain was probably bursitis, the neck pain was probably a muscle strain, and the headaches were probably stress from it all.  

4 months later I was diagnosed with Chiari.  There was my answer.  And the beginning of a million more questions.  LOL

[selmaS]

Hi ...yes I know what u mean...I often said it felt like my brain was swelling and was going to split my head open......

Not sure if neone here has been dx with lymes.....I know it is a test done to rule it out as many symptoms r similar...they also rule out MS and lupus.

Have u been checked for Pusedotumor cerebri?

"selma"