I know of the PFO - headache connection.
My question is about my symptoms. For 3 years I've had a serious headache disorder. 24/7 dull headache, with frequent migraine like headache in the mornings espeically. I had an extensive neuro workup, negative. Now recently I've begun having atypical chest pain, fatigue, heart palps which are aggrivated by exercise during and after, constant nausea, episodes of breathlessness, eratic pulse.
Often when I first stand up, my heart beats very hard and pushes the blood into my head very hard making the same exact head pain syndome temporarily worse.
I have had a stress test and echo and chest xray...and of course labs which have all been normal. However, I wonder sometimes, is there another known connection between the heart or vascular system and headaches? This seems too much of a coincidence to be randomly occuring illnesses in a 30 yr old man with unremarkable med history.