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Dripping wet feeling felt inside head.
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?
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?
i posted I do its horrible I keep looking for help.
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)
I cannot give you a clinical diagnosis over the internet, unforuntately, so I cannot substitute for a formal medical opinion.
A common cause of a dripping feeling inside the head is the 'post-nasal' drip associated with sinusitis, often with a bad taste in the mouth, sometimes with tenderness of the sinuses. I'm not sure where exactly in the head you are having the feeling. You might need to see an ENT doc for management of chronic sinusitis.
Without other features of headche - head pain, nausea etc, this does not seem like a primary headache syndrome. Dripping in the nose or ear can be from a spinal fluid leak - over time this can beassciated with infection or headache, and results in a clear discharge from the nose or ear.
Temple twitching is usally from muscle tension or over contraction can can contribute to headache, especially if isolated to the head muscles. If it becomes more widepread it may warrant furhter investigation.
The fact that it has not changed much over time would suggest a more benign disorder.
Your doctors may want to consider an MRI of the brain, as this would provide both a sinus evaluation and reassure you regarding the rest of the brain
Good luck
A common cause of a dripping feeling inside the head is the 'post-nasal' drip associated with sinusitis, often with a bad taste in the mouth, sometimes with tenderness of the sinuses. I'm not sure where exactly in the head you are having the feeling. You might need to see an ENT doc for management of chronic sinusitis.
Without other features of headche - head pain, nausea etc, this does not seem like a primary headache syndrome. Dripping in the nose or ear can be from a spinal fluid leak - over time this can beassciated with infection or headache, and results in a clear discharge from the nose or ear.
Temple twitching is usally from muscle tension or over contraction can can contribute to headache, especially if isolated to the head muscles. If it becomes more widepread it may warrant furhter investigation.
The fact that it has not changed much over time would suggest a more benign disorder.
Your doctors may want to consider an MRI of the brain, as this would provide both a sinus evaluation and reassure you regarding the rest of the brain
Good luck
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.
I am so silly-lol-I hadn't seen the doctors response until after yours Giggles....Thank you Doc and everybody who answered. I am more ressured with the chronic sinusitis as a possibility...but...getting another test done is going to really, really be scary. I am going to have to get this checked out soon. Thank yall.
P.S.-The dripping feeling is felt mostly on the left side of my head and can expand sometimes, but mostly on the middle left side of my head with the dripping stopping all the way down the back of my head....sounds spooky huh?
P.S.-The dripping feeling is felt mostly on the left side of my head and can expand sometimes, but mostly on the middle left side of my head with the dripping stopping all the way down the back of my head....sounds spooky huh?
wow....
thank you for your reply. See thats the thing. I am now 22, and I havent seen anyone yet again! this absolutely terrifies me because....I don't know where all of this stuff comes from. It comes from the spine all the way up to the brain? Wow...I am really scared...
thank you for your reply. See thats the thing. I am now 22, and I havent seen anyone yet again! this absolutely terrifies me because....I don't know where all of this stuff comes from. It comes from the spine all the way up to the brain? Wow...I am really scared...
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