Indentation in top of head

[lynn1973]

I was really hoping for a suggestion as to why I may have developed an indentation in the top of my head. At first I thought I was crazy, and that it was impossible for that to happen, but over the last few months it seems to have grown and now anyone who feels the top of my head can easily feel it. It scares me, especially since my husband had brain surgery less than 2 years ago- (symptoms completely different of course) I am 35 years old, the only time I remember hitting my head really hard is when I was in elementary school and I fell and hit my head on a tile floor. I have had a history of passing out and having seizures but the doctors never figured out for sure what caused it and it hasn't happened for a few years. The best they came up with was blood sugar, and dehydration as a cause for those episodes, although I never had a MRI or anything of my head. I don't get pains from it, it may be a little tender if I press on the indent kind of hard. Is there any condition that would cause my skull to cave in? please help!

[fav12]

ohhh this site is so helpful.  It is such a relief to find out that there are other people out there with the same as  51 year old me  ( had  been thinking all sorts - brain tumour cancer etc)

I have had a dent in my the top of my head left side now for the past 3 months and like many others in the forum before me wear my glasses on my head and thought this could be the cause of it.  However I stopped wearing them on my head and another small dent appeared. I started experiencing slight memory loss, low energy,pins and needles down my left arm, pressure headaches on the left side of my head and sometimes my left eye feels like it is popping out.  I also have a permanent ear ache in my left ear and  slight loss of vision in my left eye now and again. I have put on quite a lot of weight in the last few months and have also experienced a loss in libido.

I recently visited my optition and asked if the dents could be attributed to wearing glasses on my head. She took a look at the dents and said no.  After the examination she told me  the pressure in my left eye was  high and advised me to see a Doctor asap.  This I have done.  After telling him all my symptoms he stated that he had no Idea what the dents were,took my blood pressure reported that it was normal and has referred to me a Neurologist .  My appointment is early December so I will let you know the  outcome.

[ella455]

I have a thyroid condition and i also began feeling a dent in my head not to long ago. My husband looks at me like im crazy and i hate that. I get enough of that from my so called Endocrinologist! Anyways i believe that there is a connection between these dents and thyroid conditions. Research is based on statistics right?? So why don't doctors consider these stats?

[DenaJ]

TO EVERYONE WITH THESE TYPES OF ISSUES:

Please insist that your doctor does a Celiac panel (and check for general vitamin deficiencies) to see if you have the disease! I have a dent in the same place on the top of my head and it is believed that these types of dents may be caused from nutritional deficiencies, which would be the case if you had Celiac and your immune system was causing your small intestine to reject anything with gluten in it and destroy the villi lining the walls of the small intestine. This damage to the villi, in turn, leads to the inability of your small intestine to properly absorb nutrients from food, thereby causing the nutritional deficiencies throughout your body.

I have been losing my once healthy, thick hair for over a decade, but in the last year noticed that I was also hungry all the time and more tired than usual. I took several pregnancy tests just to rule that out since I felt abnormally hungry and very tired when pregnant with my son, and went to various doctors who didn't take any of my concerns seriously. But something just didn't feel right ...

After going to four different doctors (and even being forced to tears after seeing one who was extremely dismissive of what I was going through), one fateful day I stopped to visit with a coworker in our lunchroom and she urged me to see a particular "functional medicine" office in town. At the time I'd never even heard of the term, "functional medicine," and honestly, it sounded like some crackpot kind of phrase, but I was at the point where I figured I had nothing to lose (except a $25 co-pay).

And so, I immediately made an appointment with them, and was shocked when they spent nearly two hours talking to me about all my symptoms from childhood to present. They were approaching my situation as if they were investigators trying to solve a problem - and what a refreshing change as compared to all the worthless medical "professionals" I'd been to earlier. They then did lab work to rule out possible causes for my symptoms, and one of those lab tests included the Celiac panel. Sure enough, the tests came back positive for the auto-immune disorder (and also Vitamin D and iron deficiencies, to name a few). Not one doctor I'd ever been too made the connection of my symptoms to Celiac because most medical doctors have little to zero education on nutrition.

After learning of my disease, I have to confess that I was even more angry with those worthless doctors I'd seen in the past for not listening to me, for making me feel like I was some kind of hypochondriac, and most importantly, for delaying the discovery of this diagnosis. Still, I also felt validated that my symptoms were real, and was finally able to begin working on improving my health. It has only been a couple of months, but I feel better, am less tired, and also less hungry (out of nowhere I've actually lost 7 pounds despite not being able to lose any weight since the birth of my child).

The bottom line is this: These days you really have to be your own health advocate and researcher. You have lived in your body for a long time and you know when something isn't right. When your body is trying to tell you something is off, listen to it and don't stop your search for a medical professional who will genuinely listen to you too!

[mumof2boys2013]

Well im still waiting to see neurology.. im starting to think maybe it isn't good news and they'd rather me not know if there's no fix.. my dent has gotten worse just in the last month.. ive started taking fish oil & magnesium again on top of the calcium, vit d i already take.. I guess im just trying to take anything that might fix it.. im honestly thinking that the rate it is going my head is going to collapse. I have been measuring my dent from top ridge to bottom ridge openings over the last few months to try and prove it is getting worse and I am not imagining it.. well what was measuring 7cm in length 2 months ago is now measuring 9cm I can feel it getting deeper also I just cant measure that. It is sore/strange to touch and feels like there is not much there holding it together. I have also found a few other website threads since with much the same people talking about the same thing and a lot of people mention thyroid.. being that I have no thyroid and I am on a thyroid med I am beginning to wonder if my dose is too high and that is what is causing this? I know they have told me im borderline high but not high enough to be dropped because I still feel crappy on the dose I am on and will feel worse if it is dropped. When I went to hospital as an emergency patient following my doctors orders the guy who saw me who I told about the dent of all things pushed on it (quite hard I might add) and says oh yes there is a dent.. they all walked off and then released me and said I have to go on a waiting list to be seen. =(

[Tswolf]

Thank you for writing. You sound like you've been through a lot. I am going to keep dill pickle juice on hand and try it. The only think that concerns me with you is all the BC you take, seems like a lot on your stomach. Coming from a long life of migraines and not allowed to take anymore migraine meds because of what it did to my heart I have found that one or 2 ibuprofen and 1 or 2 tylenol usually works for me now. I will keep you in my prayers. I also think we are ok when it comes to our dents.

[Cinnuint]

So glad I happened upon this forum!  I am female, 54 years old (55 in Sept).  Pretty good health.  Haven't seen a doctor in over 20 years, since three of them (2 neuros & 1 GP) told me to "get my house in order"  I didn't have long to live.  I have a venous angioma (veins around my brain are tangled, BP goes up, veins burst, boom! brain stroke).  I have low BP too.  But not sickly low, it's all good.  Altho', I can't eat bananas, they bring the BP too low and I tend to 'pass out'.  And of course, what's my fav fruit?  Bananas!  I am still going thru menopause, relatively well, a lot of night sweats, hot flashes, but I manage with no meds.  I eat healthy, I'm a fruit and veggie gal, problem is l Love Fried Anything!  lol  But I do limit the fried foods to maybe once a month.  I recently stopped drinking sodas of every kind.  Was a huge Diet Coke drinker, about 4 or 5 a day.  Now, just bottled water and homemade peppermint iced tea, about half a pitcher a day.  I don't take any meds except for BC Powders (100% aspirin 845 mgs), about 3 or 4 a day for headaches (every since my brain stroke over 20 yrs ago, headache every day).  Once in a blue moon when I remember, I'll take a Vit. C or D.  Cant take them every day, they tear my innards up.  But give me some really good and spicy food and I'm good, stomach of cast iron.  Cajun girl at heart.  I injured my back which hurts 24/7 but I manage with just the aspirin and a lot of getting up and down and not standing for too long nor sitting for too long.  
Two days ago, I discovered a dent in the top of my head.  Totally freaked me out!  It's about the size of my pinky finger (2" long going from left to right)  it feels pretty deep, but then I have to remember how when I sometimes get a tickle in my ear and scratch it with my nail and feel something it feels like it's the size of a dime in my ear!  And figured the same with this dent thing on my head, that it's most likely not as deep as I'm feeling it is.  But it is a definite indention in my skull that I KNOW 100% was not there 3 days ago.  I have read so many say something about the Vit D thing and I really think I am going to have to add that to my weekly routine.  I am just so thankful for all of you who have taken the time to write on this forum your experiences, ideas, suggestions, and opinions!!!!  Thank You So Very Very Much!  It surely eases my mind to know I'm not alone and that it's really probably nothing more than just "getting older" and "falling apart"!  I'm not one for doctors, they're good for some, but not me.  I don't trust them.  I tend to pray a lot and rely a lot on good old fashioned home remedies.  I try to keep busy and ignore a lot of the pain.  
*My Best Tip:  At the very onset of getting a cold, bug, or just all over achy, not feeling well feeling, I drink about 1/4 to 1/3 of dill pickle juice.  I haven't had a cold, flu, 'bug' etc in years!  Although it didn't work with the swine flu I had when that break out was in our are several years ago, but I didn't take meds for it either, sick in bed for one month, rode it out, now I just figure my body fought it off and built up it's own anti-bodies to it.  :)
I wish you all the best and hope you all find out what is causing this and that the synopsis is a good one.  That it's nothing to be worried about.  :)