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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?
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I was recently diagnosed with CM and have heavy pressure/pulsation in my head (tinnitus and "heartbeat in both ears), my head bobs when I'm trying to sit still, it feels like someone is pulling my hair all of the time, base of my skull burns and my ears drip throughout the day.  I suggested to my Dr. that I thought I might have CSF leak and he treated me like I was crazy.  The leaking has been going on for more than a year.  I also have 2 herniated discs and a syrinx so it didn't seem so far fetched to me.  I can't get anyone to explain the pulsation and give me some kind of resolution.  It's driving me crazy.  I don't sleep enough.  I'm losing vision in my right eys and my body feels like it's trembling/vibrating all of the time.  I had a CINE MRI that showed diminished posterior CSF flow and cerebellar tonsils abut foramen magnum.  I also have what I call "drop attacks" where I fall down without losing consciousness (I feel like I'm in a vortex)--no hydrocephalous. I am becoming physically weaker every day.  Does any of this sound familiar to you?  I'm desperate for answers and trying to plan my next move.  I need to find a Dr. who is well versed in this type of problem.
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hi

just read your post.  If you can tell I have similar symptons.  I also have ringinng in ears and the feeling of a heart beat in ears.  I also have the fluid draining problem  I cant seem to find anyone to help me let us know what you are being DX with maybe the rest of us will be helped someohow also.

thanks.........
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Hello,
I AM AMAZED TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS I AM HAVING UNFORTUNATELY, IT SEEMS LIKE NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF THE PROBLEMS I AM HAVING. WELL AT FIRST MY HEAD FELT LIKE LIQUID WAS DRAINING ON THE INSIDE OF MY HEAD, NOW THE INSIDE OF MY HEAD BURNS AND MAKES A BUZZING NOISE AND AT TIMES I GET DIZZY, I HAD BEEN TO A NEUROLOGIST AND HAD A MRI ABOUT 2 YEARS AGO WHERE THEY DISCOVERED I HAD A SMALL NODULE ON MY PITURITORY THAT WAS NON ACTIVE, I HAD ANOTHER ONE ABOUT 7 MONTS AGO WHERE THE MRI WAS NORMAL AND THE PITURITORY NODULE WAS GONE, BUT I AM STILL HAVING HEAD PROBLEMS, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HAVING THESE SAME PROBLEMS, OH ALSO IT MAKES ME WEAK, AT TIMES I FEEL PINS AND NEEDLES AND HOT SENSATION IN MY FACE. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WITH THESE PROBLEMS, PLEASE HELP, SORRY FOR THE SPELLING
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Hi yvonne

I posted few times.   I constantly have fluid draining in my head, neck crakcling and tinnutus among a 24hour heachache.  I have been going to doctors for two years now and no one is helping they keep saying different things plus I need to see a therapist maybe its stress.  What they dont realize its the doctors giving the stress.  Having a heache 24 hours and fluid draining in the head is not stress.  I know what its like to have a normal head and mine isnt.  But as rare as it is I have seen thru this site other people having similar symptons and having no help.  If you get this my direct email is:  ***@**** if you want to email me directly.  Its funny  I had a nodule in the same area it showed up on three different exams - I finally had a doctor notice it, though he insisted it couldnt cause my problem. Maybe is some rare cases it does.  My piturart level was even raised.  Anyway he dicides to send me for another MRI becasue the  others were older, get this it wasnt there either though my smptonss persist and are somewhat worse.  My only conlsuion when I was looking at the films (my gut tells me I am right) is that each radiolgist/techinican takes different slices and I beleive they can totally take off slices or not the right slice missing the original picture taken that shows something.  Though doctors still disagree.  Not that I know what I am looking at, but see similarties and differences is not too hard to do on films.
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I can't believe that there are other people out there that feels this dripping feeling in their head. I have  a dripping feeling in the left side of my head that comes and goes, feels cold, like an ice cream headache.  Can anyone tell me what type of tests or diagnosis they recieved for this.  It worries me, concerned it may be clot related.  Let me know.  Thanks
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I can't believe that there are other people out there that feels this dripping feeling in their head. I have  a dripping feeling in the left side of my head that comes and goes, feels cold, like an ice cream headache.  Can anyone tell me what type of tests or diagnosis they recieved for this.  It worries me, concerned it may be clot related.  Let me know.  Thanks
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