I have had migraines,dizziness, nausea and I just found a dent in my head. What could that mean?

[dev2009]

I have had alot of migraines and dizziness for the past year. I thought it was just stress. I felt the crown of my head last night because that is where the pain feels like it is coming from and when I parted my hair I felt a big dent in my head. I cant remember a time of hitting it. I dont have health insurance so I dont want to go to the doctor if I dont have to. Should I be worried about this. My symptoms for the past year have been: dizziness, migraines, headaches, nausea, weakness.
Now I am a mother of a one year old and I have just thought that it was from staying at home all the time and just being lazy and stressed. Now that I am working a full time job again I thought it was because my body wasnt used to it anymore but when I found the dent I thought that there might be something else that could be wrong. I would love some advice before I spend alot of money going to the doctor. Should I be worried or is it normal?

[NiniRodriguez5]

Hi My 14 yr old daughter has the same thing the lady was saying. they found that she has a dent in the back middle area of her head and they didn't see any thing wrong with bone or her brain which is good, so now I have to take her to her doctor to request an MRI to see if anything is wrong, she say's it hurts when some one touches the dent and the other day I had to take her back to children's hospital because the pain was bad. I get worried because my 14 yr old brother died of a brain tumor not saying she has it, it just just scare's me . Help pls. what could it be?

[Lennnnn]

Have you figured out what it is? I am 14 and am having that exact issue. It feels like a dent in the back/top area of my head and ever time I touch it Even gently I get a severe head ache

[Dr Sharma]

Hi there. Your neurologist needs to rule out multiple sclerosis, a chronic demyelinating disorder also. MS is a chronic demyelinating disorder where the disease phase is characterized by active phase and remissions. It has multiple symptoms and signs and is a diagnosis of exclusion. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis are loss of balance, muscle spasms, numbness in any area, problems with walking and coordination, tremors in one or more arms and legs. Bowel and bladder symptoms include frequency of micturition, urine leakage, eye symptoms like double vision uncontrollable rapid eye movements, facial pain, painful muscle spasms, tingling, burning in arms or legs, depression, dizziness, hearing loss, fatigue etc. The treatment is essentially limited to symptomatic therapy so the course of action would not change much whether MS has been diagnosed or not. Apart from clinical neurological examination, MRI shows MS as paler areas of demyelination, two different episodes of demyelination separated by one month in at least two different brain locations. Spinal tap is done and CSF electrophoresis reveals oligoclonal bands suggestive of immune activity, which is suggestive but not diagnostic of MS. Demyelinating neurons, transmit nerve signals slower than non-demyelinated ones and can be detected with EP tests. These are visual evoked potentials, brain stem auditory evoked response, and somatosensory evoked potential. Slower nerve responses in any one of these is not confirmatory of MS but can be used to complement diagnosis along with a neurological examination, medical history and an MRI in addition, a spinal tap. Therefore, it would be prudent to consult your neurologist with these concerns. Hope this helps. Take care.