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I banged my head .... am I just being paranoid?
This is how my day went the other day:
I got up at about 9:00am, and around 9:30am I had a breakfast sandwich from McDonalds, a cup of coffee, and about thirty minutes after coffee I had a mountain dew, because it looked good.
Later that day, at about 11:44ish, I was on the computer just checking facebook and whatnot, then I slightly moved my head up and got a slight head rush, which is normal, and then suddenly I instantly felt nauseous and light-headed. For about 5-10 seconds I sat there, thinking I would vomit, so I got up and walked fast to the bathroom. About 10 steps later, I blacked out. I do remember a split second glimpse of falling half way to the ground, and then I blacked out again. In this sense, I didn't necessarily topple over, I kinda felt like I braced myself a little bit while falling it seems.
Minutes later I woke up around 11:55ish and I was perfectly fine, only I discovered I had hit my head on the tile floor that was leading to the bathroom. I hit my head right above my right eye brow, leaving a small mark (no bump or anything, just a mark that doesn't really hurt at all). I got up, felt just a little sick in my stomach for a minute, was very cold and sweaty for a couple minutes, then it passed. I did not feel dizzy, have a headache or anything, I felt perfectly normal after that, just a sore face from where I hit it.
A few hours later, at about 3:00pm, after trying to keep warm, I told my mother and my sister who is an RN, and we went to the emergency room to check up.. "just to be safe." Basically the topic that was brought up was "bleeding in the brain." I took a blood pressure test, blood sugar test, heart test, and urine test. All came back perfectly normal and the doctors and nurses tested my fingers, my knee joints and things like that, and basically concluded that a CT scan would not be necessary because I didn't have a "raging headache or excessive vomiting." Although, I had such a slight headache it was barely noticeable. During our release moment, I told the nurse that I had coffee and mountain dew within an hour of each other, and she immediately noted that that was the problem, that there was "too much caffeine and sugar." And so, after about 5 hours at the ER, we went home.
Today, I did not have anything with caffeine, just to be safe. I went to work at UPS and about 30 minutes to an hour into working, i got a slight headache. Throughout the rest of the work night, I had a bad headache. It wasn't raging or excruciating, but just bad enough where you would want to take pills for it. My girlfriend thinks I got a headache just from the immediate caffeine withdraws because i'm used to it. So I am home now typing this, and I took ibuprofen and I guess it's helping a little. But I became paranoid thinking that headache was suddenly a symptom, and yet the doctor said I was fine. The problem is that I didn't take a CT scan, so it left me in a little "i wonder..." state.
I checked up the symptoms of "bleeding in the brain" and I don't really have any, and plus it's been over 24 hours I think and I'm almost positive I would've been dead by now.
Am I okay?. Am I just being paranoid about this? I am 21 years old.
I got up at about 9:00am, and around 9:30am I had a breakfast sandwich from McDonalds, a cup of coffee, and about thirty minutes after coffee I had a mountain dew, because it looked good.
Later that day, at about 11:44ish, I was on the computer just checking facebook and whatnot, then I slightly moved my head up and got a slight head rush, which is normal, and then suddenly I instantly felt nauseous and light-headed. For about 5-10 seconds I sat there, thinking I would vomit, so I got up and walked fast to the bathroom. About 10 steps later, I blacked out. I do remember a split second glimpse of falling half way to the ground, and then I blacked out again. In this sense, I didn't necessarily topple over, I kinda felt like I braced myself a little bit while falling it seems.
Minutes later I woke up around 11:55ish and I was perfectly fine, only I discovered I had hit my head on the tile floor that was leading to the bathroom. I hit my head right above my right eye brow, leaving a small mark (no bump or anything, just a mark that doesn't really hurt at all). I got up, felt just a little sick in my stomach for a minute, was very cold and sweaty for a couple minutes, then it passed. I did not feel dizzy, have a headache or anything, I felt perfectly normal after that, just a sore face from where I hit it.
A few hours later, at about 3:00pm, after trying to keep warm, I told my mother and my sister who is an RN, and we went to the emergency room to check up.. "just to be safe." Basically the topic that was brought up was "bleeding in the brain." I took a blood pressure test, blood sugar test, heart test, and urine test. All came back perfectly normal and the doctors and nurses tested my fingers, my knee joints and things like that, and basically concluded that a CT scan would not be necessary because I didn't have a "raging headache or excessive vomiting." Although, I had such a slight headache it was barely noticeable. During our release moment, I told the nurse that I had coffee and mountain dew within an hour of each other, and she immediately noted that that was the problem, that there was "too much caffeine and sugar." And so, after about 5 hours at the ER, we went home.
Today, I did not have anything with caffeine, just to be safe. I went to work at UPS and about 30 minutes to an hour into working, i got a slight headache. Throughout the rest of the work night, I had a bad headache. It wasn't raging or excruciating, but just bad enough where you would want to take pills for it. My girlfriend thinks I got a headache just from the immediate caffeine withdraws because i'm used to it. So I am home now typing this, and I took ibuprofen and I guess it's helping a little. But I became paranoid thinking that headache was suddenly a symptom, and yet the doctor said I was fine. The problem is that I didn't take a CT scan, so it left me in a little "i wonder..." state.
I checked up the symptoms of "bleeding in the brain" and I don't really have any, and plus it's been over 24 hours I think and I'm almost positive I would've been dead by now.
Am I okay?. Am I just being paranoid about this? I am 21 years old.
The head gush feeling and blacking out could also be an inbalance of your normal fluid distribution in your middle ear? Im no doctor, but I too, in 5th grade had blacked out and hit my head on the wall after feeling dizzy walking to the bathroom. I had a history of ear infections. something to find out, just incase.
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Since using a computer is causing head gushes (you mention this is normal) and now you have dizziness, nausea, headache, there is a chance that you have compression of the spinal nerves in the cervical spine region. This can happen due to overuse of computers, work involving straining of neck, herniated disc, canal stenosis, bone disease, spondylosis, poor posture etc. A MRI of the cervical spine and nerve conduction studies may be required. Please consult a neurologist. The treatment is to remove the compression. You have to discuss the best treatment option with a neurologist, which can range from medication to physiotherapy to traction, cervical collars or even surgery.
Hope this helps. Take care!
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
Since using a computer is causing head gushes (you mention this is normal) and now you have dizziness, nausea, headache, there is a chance that you have compression of the spinal nerves in the cervical spine region. This can happen due to overuse of computers, work involving straining of neck, herniated disc, canal stenosis, bone disease, spondylosis, poor posture etc. A MRI of the cervical spine and nerve conduction studies may be required. Please consult a neurologist. The treatment is to remove the compression. You have to discuss the best treatment option with a neurologist, which can range from medication to physiotherapy to traction, cervical collars or even surgery.
Hope this helps. Take care!
I am surprised they didn't take a CT scan after you mentioned black out and hit the head. Similar thing happened to me and didn't take a CT scan for me.
I had terrible head ache and dizziness and again went to my doctor 4 days later.
Found out I had bleeding or bruising in my brain (brain contusion) at 2 places and may be a skull fracture (radiologist reported I had fracture and neurosurgeon said I didn't have one. Not sure whom to believe and anyway it was a year and half ago). Quite a few misdiagnosis in my case and now I am suffering like hell.
Doctors told what they do is monitor swelling and take appropriate action if needed. You may be right about 24 hours passed but still I recommend you go back to ER and ask for a CT scan. Initial hours are important for any brain injury.
I had terrible head ache and dizziness and again went to my doctor 4 days later.
Found out I had bleeding or bruising in my brain (brain contusion) at 2 places and may be a skull fracture (radiologist reported I had fracture and neurosurgeon said I didn't have one. Not sure whom to believe and anyway it was a year and half ago). Quite a few misdiagnosis in my case and now I am suffering like hell.
Doctors told what they do is monitor swelling and take appropriate action if needed. You may be right about 24 hours passed but still I recommend you go back to ER and ask for a CT scan. Initial hours are important for any brain injury.
there is no edit button but I have to add this in:
I do NOT have any history of black outs, faints, or seizures. So it kinda is a mystery.
I do NOT have any history of black outs, faints, or seizures. So it kinda is a mystery.
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