Attention: head pressure, pressure in head, headache people!

[Citizen T]

Hello everyone, after suffering for nearly 2 years with a mysterious neurological-like condition, I have almost given up all hope of living a normal life again. After a whole lot of research on the net, I have run into several postings with people describing my condition almost down to the exact letter. However, many of these posts are on some obscure website with the postings being months or years old. The purpose of my post here is to *hopefully* unite those of us who suffer from this unexplained condition.

The one symptom that seems to bond us all together is a constant "pressure" sensation behind the forehead and beneath the front top of the head. The way people describe this varies according to personal expression, but it is usually best described as an expanding sensation behind the forehead as if the brain is growing larger with nowhere to go. The headache is dull, non-throbbing, and does not get worse with exercise. The patient will also describe a sort of "perpetual dizziness" that may be constant or may come and go again. Usually, but not allways the patient will describe the sensation of having a constantly blocked nose even in the absence of any type of discharge or sinus infection. Most but not all patients will describe a feeling of tension or stiffness in the cranial muscles, especially in the forehead.

[murfthesurf]

ive had headaches since april 2009. my headaches i have them 24/7.sometimes as ive told doctors what happens it seems that theres water running over my eyes when that starts i have to stop driving an what ever im doing thats when my migraine starts.ive told this to numerous doctors an they thing im full of it.this all started when i was driving to take trash to a land fill with a tractor trailer.i got stuck in mud and i asked the dozer operator for a push and boy o boy did he give me one. it was hard enough to knock me out for over20 seconds.i tried to stop but one of the other drivers saw what had happened he jumped out of his truck an into mine and turned the key off.i told the boss of the land fill he just shrugged his shoulders as if nothing had happened. i called my boss on the nextel about it and he said to bring the truck home.from the landfill was 135 miles one way.i got back about 6 hours coming back my dispatcher tryed to ream i new butt hole.i wrote down on paper and gave it to the other dispatcher he called the medical ctr the company usesand they said to come over the one dispatcher personally drove me over as my head was splitting i was up chucking so bad.i did that as i was going into the medical ctr.the doctor was really upset i thru up in his office.my dispatcher said to him i am the one who was knocked out he immediately took me into an examining room.with a bucket as i was throwing up so mush.the doctor had given me some medicine which didnt work at all.ive been taking excidrin by the hand fulls also whatever else i could try.ive been to numerous doctors neuros ive had ct scans mri.with an without contrast.ive tried bio feed back an to no stopping those headaches.my whole head hurts. i think the docs think im there cfor a fix yeah im there for you to fix my head once and for all

[maxmister]

I'm 25 and while all the times I've ever been sick which is about twice a year. I've never lost my since of taste and smell until recently when I became sick and it was like no other. I was waking up every morning with a splitting headache and couldn't taste or smell anything. The headaches felt like there was an excessive amount of pressure in my head and it was squeezing my brain and pushing outward on my skull. After a week I had had enough and decided to call my mom about this cause shes pretty knowledgeable about sickness and remedies. For the splitting headache and she told me to take 800mg of Ibuprofen which was 4 pills and I asked are you serious? and she said that was a prescription dosage. So I did and YES! no more ridiculous headaches. But my since of taste and smell were still at large. so after about 2 more weeks of that I decided to go to the minute clinic at CVS Pharmacy and the doctor there concluded I had a sinus infection and prescribed me 20 pills of Amoxicillin 875MG to take twice daily and within a couple days I got my since of smell and taste back. And no more splitting pressure headaches either so no more ibuprofen. Yay.

[Baminofambo]

hi dgalal2001,

I absolutely agree! Doctors should always consider toxins when treating any chronic desease (especially brain fog, migraine, headache, depression). They should, but they do not.

Moreover, I believe that amalgam fillings are by far the largest source for toxins in our bodies. Many people get sick after a removal of amalgam fillings without adequate protection.

Even those who have never had amalgam fillings might suffer from a severe mercury poisoning (like MS...), if her/his mother had amalgam fillings (the mercury migrates into the placenta and poisons the fetus).

If you have been suffering from a chronic disease for a long time, and doctors cannot find out the cause, then you should try a detoxification therapy (detox mercury, after amalgam removal).

Good recovery for everybody!
Baminofambo

[Amilligan9]

I deveveloped a bump on my temple when I was in 3rd grade And it never went away I suffer from depppression and everyday anxiety I am 17 now but  i was never a child My brain developed to quickly due to parents divorce and being a parent for my achoolic mom and then having being mentaly abused by my manic biporar DAD. o WAS THE adult in the realationship but I was miserbal myself  being torn apart by having to pick who I wanted to live with. i now can hardly handle myself school is my only escape i make all A's and b'S But I usually miss on Average 29 days a year due to my Anxiety making me sick. My mental illnesses effect me mentally and phisically. so all I can tell you guys due to my chuldhood It gets harder every day to try and control my emotions and still have Hope I will get better. fact window of oppertunity for learning to control emotions is o-3. So what AACP has been missing this whole time is ; A good begin can last a lifetime but so can a bad one

[dgalal2001]

So, have you figures out what is going on with the departmentalization? Personally I think a lot of what is wrong with a lot of people is environmental. Toxins can cause a host of symptoms and since the medical profession only treat symptoms there is no incentive to find out what is really going on. The more symptoms the more power doctors and the big pharmasuitical companies have.
We are still releasing tons of toxins into the environment ever day and to think that they do not have an adverse effect on the human race is absurd.  I think is is kind of ironic, we sacrifice our health, the health of our children and our children s children for what? Which one of your presidents declared war on cancer? I think it was Reagan? Like trying to put a fire out with gasoline. The funny thing it is not funny.

[Citizen T]

Also, the "dream like state" that I described in my post 6 years ago....is much much much worse these days.   The pressure in my head isn't really any worse, but I'm constantly living a nightmare of "depersonalization" and "derealization"