Dripping wet feeling felt inside head.

[no_name_given]

Hello,

When I was 15, I was laying on my back playing my gameboy, when suddenly, I felt something like water trickling down the INSIDE of my head. This was NOT something I felt on my scalp, but again INSIDE of my head where someone will feel a headache. Of course, I was all nerves, crying hysterically, asking my sister to call my mom because I thought the worse was about to happen to me. To make a long story short, my mom took me to the emergency room, where the doctors performed a CAT scan on my head. After getting out of the CAT machine, they showed me a picture of my skull revealing that had sinusitis. I asked them what was the wet feeeling I was feeling, and they said it was mucus draining. So they put me on antibiotics for like 30 days or something? And I still continued to feel that wet trickling feeling of water running in the inside of my head. There is no pain associated with it, but utter fear and worry.

As silly as it sounds, I never went back to the doctor because I am already a hypochondriac, and feared the worst as a second opinion. Seven years later at 22, I continue to feel this 'wet trickly feeling' in the inside of my head frequently not lasting many minutes. My temple also twitches, which frightens the hell out of me, as well as twitches felt in other areas of my head. My primary doctor said, if something seriouly was wrong with me, I would have known by now. I am not reassured, and on the verge of going to the doc to see if something wrong. To feel like water is dripping inside the head is abnormal, and never heard of? What could this possibly be?

[Citizen T]

Does the dripping sensation actually interfere with your life or do you just worry about what it is?   An MRI of the brain (like the doctor said) is a non invasive 30 minute test that should set your mind at ease.

[no_name_given]

I worry about what it is---but, from these replies, I am kinda at ease, and still nervous to get a test. I would hope it is a  sinus problem rather than something else. It interferes with my life in a way that it has been going on for seven years, but it comes intermittently, and cracks my nerves once its happening, and then when it's over, I think, Why do I keep feeling this ****? and why must I drip in my head? because nobody else does.(that I know of)

[fcar]

i posted I do its horrible  I keep looking for help.

[no_name_given]

Well good luck dear. I mean, its only a matter of time before you find what you are seeking. Keep us updated on your condition and if you find anybody!

[SanFranciscoMo]

Dear No Name,

I understand your concern, I had the very same feeling and still do. I saw an ENT and he determined it was Post Nasal Drip.

I know it feels really odd, Now I am not a doctor, but I think that if you had a "spinal fluid leak" from the age of 15-22...well I am pretty sure you would have been dead long ago.

My post nasal drip comes and goes, it depends on many things, seasons of the year, what part of the country I am in, and how dusty my room gets...

lol So clean your room and under your bed, vaccume and dust often, that may help.

[no_name_given]

Thank you San Francisco for your reply! Again this is very reassuring for me. Although I still need another evaluation, it is SO good to know that I am finally hearing comments of people who felt what I felt! I was thinking like oh goodness, I have one of those odd conditions like only one in a million get because everyone would have these surprising reactions when I told them I drip through my head. Thank you so much. I will have to do some "spring" cleaning early-lol-