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.

[freefallin]

Without having read this entire thread because part of my problem is that I have a horrible time concentrating, especially on long walls of text, I think I've been experiencing a lot of the same things many of the people here have. I have horrible pain, mostly localized on the right side of the back of my head almost every second that I'm awake. I have trouble with logic and thinking straight. I often feel as though I'm just running on autopilot because I can't focus enough to be in total control of myself. My memory is shot, especially my short-term memory. Sometimes it literally feels as though half of my brain shuts off, like, half of my brain will feel empty; it's hard to explain. I have trouble remembering words and pronouncing words. I feel awful pressure in my head that gets worse when I move certain ways. Sometimes I wonder if I have a bulging aneurysm or a brain tumor.

I think I'm going to try and go gluten free if I ever feel okay enough to go to the store and pick up some gluten-free foods...I've been meaning to a while but have been bedridden. All I know is I need to do something. I'm 22 years old and feel like my life is over. I used to be so ambitious and adventure-seeking, and now I lay in bed in tears all day long. My family wants me to be out looking for jobs and for someone to marry and begin a family with, and they don't understand me nor believe me when I tell them I would love to do those things, but it's near impossible with the way I always feel. I feel so defeated.

[Baminofambo]

Hello born2bmom2three,
ME looks like a severe mercury poisoning. Amalgam fillings are the most common source of mercury poisoning. Do you have amalgam fillings? Did you have an amalgam removal without protection when your symptoms started?

Good look! Recover soon!

Baminofambo

[Baminofambo]

Hello Ki3r,
your description sounds like a mercury poisoning. Amalgam fillings are the most common source of mercury poisoning. Do you have amalgam fillings? Did you have an amalgam removal without protection when your symptoms started?

I whish you all the best!

Baminofambo

[Ki3r]

please read its long but i need a reply who kind of suffers like me ... not doctors advise and mind because they have no idea what is going off basically this illness i have so called anxiety has been going on for a year or more due to drugs and alcohol indused with brain fogg ect it taken  me the best of the year to believe its anxoety ect, now i have had a mri brain scan and a ct other month because i smell burning all the time and get memory loss and get muscle twitches ectbut in the last week i have serve presure in front of my head its hurting my eyes and it like some thing is pushing my brain my speech is slurred kind of i hvae usless memory and can not focus at all i am unable to work at the moment because the state im in with all this but i didnt have the pain and the serve presure before i had the mri scan now i have cronic head pains and serve presure at front of my head i play the computer xbox most time to kill depression and worry ect i have no idea whats going off my head kills meeming like now its a pulsing presure at the front and fuzzy blury vision ect i get my self do mad at my self because y me ? .. so there for at weekends i tent to get blind drunk and take drugs on recuration use then all week im the same but in the last few days this presure is abnormal but now i no they wont give me a nother mri scan because iv had 1 but i dint have these same problems before i had a mri ... ??? so im back reserching i feel suisidul through it my body reactions are slow my mind is slow my body goes numb theres a whole lot of problems going on because of my head !!!! so breaking this story up any body get any of these symtoms .... front of head kills and feel abnormaly dizzy and presure thats is unexplainable ... memory loss real bad ... body feel dead from it .... feel ill in my self and dont no whether im coming or going .. slurey speech .. can not think at all turning compleatly Dumb !! ..... look i can sit here all day putting stuff but any of these symtoms normal ?? or isit .... ??? plz reply many thanks if u have read my messed up story

[born2bmom2three]

I posted just a few minutes ago with vital information.I have been getting progressively worse for over 20 years with remissions and relapses along the way. Please...everyone posting here needs to go to hfme.org.  It will change the way you live and what to consider when searching for answers.  My latest relapse has made my life unbelievably difficult.  Faith and a lot of help with everything will make a huge difference and removing stress is a must. And all sensory input, which is pretty much everything, uses up your strength. Read the wealth of information there. It is so sad that we aren't getting the help we need. Our numbers are increasing.  We can't be dismissed forever. I would so much love to be the person I really am once again.  My children ...all of my family miss me.  I'm really quite interesting.  We need to keep each other informed.  

[born2bmom2three]

Please ALL must check out the Hummingbird Foundation for m.e.  You will be shocked, amazed, and somehow less alone......However, still suffering.  You can learn some "to dos" and "not to dos".  IF this answers your questions as it did mine. Please share any news. I wish...I PRAY you find answers. I am writing you via my bed, which I now, rarely leave. T