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Indentation in top of head
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!
I am a 52 y/o woman, post menopause, healthy. Over the 6 months I've developed two finger-sized dents in the top of my head, each to the side of the center of the skull, near the front. This is exactly where my reading glasses rest on my head. The dents are about a finger's width and 1.5 inches long, and a little sensitive to the touch. I've no health insurance, so I've been ignoring them, but I am concerned. My glasses are very light-weight, but I've only been wearing them in that location for the same duration as I've developed these dents. Can't think of any other explanation.
I also sometimes have a feeling in my head kind of hard to describe but it feels like bubbles if that makes any sense to anyone, i have never hit my head or had any injury and no one else in my entire family has this.
Oh will also add that im from south australia.. lymes disease is not found here and i have also been forgetting lots of things the last 12mo, i often joke about having alzheimers or dementia if i go to doctor and say that will probably laugh even more at me!!
Can't believe i have finally found something on this, don't know how many different searches i have put in and all the time spent looking for an answer!
I am 28yo female & first discovered my dent where my crown is, in the middle of my headgoing down ,when i was 19, i touched it on and off told myself it was nothing & forgot about it for a couple of years. 2 years later i had thyroid cancer, had a total thyroidectomy and a partial parathyroidectomy. This has meant i will forever be on a thyroid supplement but also calcium & vit d supplement for the rest of my life. After that i rediscovered the area told my mum and she said get it checked out, went to a doctor and she really did laugh at me and say i was silly everyones skull is shaped differently, i felt like an idiot so didnt even want to try a second opinion. Anyway had my 2nd child & life got busy & so forgot about it once again. Every now and again i would skim over it worry for a day and then push it to the back of my mind again.Now im at home all the time unable to work and kids are in school i guess i have more time to worry & I swear it is getting worse now and has been constantly on my mind for the last 6 months, mine is now 3 fingers across in length and 4 fingers down in width. and i swear it is sensitive to touch because i get lightheaded feelings when i touch over the area, i get pain in the area and blame it on having my hair tied up but i know it comes from that. the last 6 months i have been feeling a pressure in my head i cant explain and have frquently had headaches & head colds. I am now almost 28. This is not something that has disappeared & reappeared for me but over nearly 9 years since first disc overing it i feel it is getting larger. I am on the maximum calcium & vit d daily and all blood tests now show those things are fine as long as i take the meds. ALl other blood work is fine, i had an mri prior to finding the dent but i swear it wasnt there when i had that done and that came back fineat the time, a whole body bone scan recently which showed barely anything, all that was found is mild generation of my middle spine & knees, this also does not explain the pain i get in both of these areas.i have seen a rhuematologist who told me they couldnt do anything for me. I also always have cold hands & feet, in winter i swear i cant even feel them no matter how many layers i have on. if i raise my arms above my head while standing or laying down or drape them over the bed side i lose feeling. doctors also have given up on this as no one can find out why. i have experienced hand tremors when concentrating on fine tasks in the last 3 months. i feel that my hair is definately thinning i guess that would come with age aswell and wondered if i feel it more because of that? who knows, i regularly have an itchy scalp but oily hair. really try not to touch the area at all. I cannot bend over and lower my head and can not do somersaults on the ground or on monkey bars r jump on a trampoline as i used to as a child as the pressure build up in my head is too huge. i feel it comes from this. if doctors arent willing to listen what else are we to do.. there is obviously a real explanation for it. so glad to find others in my situation really is kind of comforting. i am healthy otherwise, dont smoke, hardly drink alcohol, i do not eat red meat, average weight for my build and do regular walking. i stress myself out over having brain tumour or something as i cant think of anything else. im on the waiting list to see neurologists about the head pressure but could be ages til i get in there.
I am 28yo female & first discovered my dent where my crown is, in the middle of my headgoing down ,when i was 19, i touched it on and off told myself it was nothing & forgot about it for a couple of years. 2 years later i had thyroid cancer, had a total thyroidectomy and a partial parathyroidectomy. This has meant i will forever be on a thyroid supplement but also calcium & vit d supplement for the rest of my life. After that i rediscovered the area told my mum and she said get it checked out, went to a doctor and she really did laugh at me and say i was silly everyones skull is shaped differently, i felt like an idiot so didnt even want to try a second opinion. Anyway had my 2nd child & life got busy & so forgot about it once again. Every now and again i would skim over it worry for a day and then push it to the back of my mind again.Now im at home all the time unable to work and kids are in school i guess i have more time to worry & I swear it is getting worse now and has been constantly on my mind for the last 6 months, mine is now 3 fingers across in length and 4 fingers down in width. and i swear it is sensitive to touch because i get lightheaded feelings when i touch over the area, i get pain in the area and blame it on having my hair tied up but i know it comes from that. the last 6 months i have been feeling a pressure in my head i cant explain and have frquently had headaches & head colds. I am now almost 28. This is not something that has disappeared & reappeared for me but over nearly 9 years since first disc overing it i feel it is getting larger. I am on the maximum calcium & vit d daily and all blood tests now show those things are fine as long as i take the meds. ALl other blood work is fine, i had an mri prior to finding the dent but i swear it wasnt there when i had that done and that came back fineat the time, a whole body bone scan recently which showed barely anything, all that was found is mild generation of my middle spine & knees, this also does not explain the pain i get in both of these areas.i have seen a rhuematologist who told me they couldnt do anything for me. I also always have cold hands & feet, in winter i swear i cant even feel them no matter how many layers i have on. if i raise my arms above my head while standing or laying down or drape them over the bed side i lose feeling. doctors also have given up on this as no one can find out why. i have experienced hand tremors when concentrating on fine tasks in the last 3 months. i feel that my hair is definately thinning i guess that would come with age aswell and wondered if i feel it more because of that? who knows, i regularly have an itchy scalp but oily hair. really try not to touch the area at all. I cannot bend over and lower my head and can not do somersaults on the ground or on monkey bars r jump on a trampoline as i used to as a child as the pressure build up in my head is too huge. i feel it comes from this. if doctors arent willing to listen what else are we to do.. there is obviously a real explanation for it. so glad to find others in my situation really is kind of comforting. i am healthy otherwise, dont smoke, hardly drink alcohol, i do not eat red meat, average weight for my build and do regular walking. i stress myself out over having brain tumour or something as i cant think of anything else. im on the waiting list to see neurologists about the head pressure but could be ages til i get in there.
I believe that it is a vitamin D issue. I do wear my reading glasses on top of my head and have stopped since reading this. I have already started taking vitamin d3 with calcium as well. I think it is one of those things that no one has an answer to. I will post as soon as my indentions disaapear. Hopefully soon.
I have the same thing. Any updates? It has been several years since anyone posted and this is the only place I have found matching symptoms.
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