Head pressure?

It's really bad today. It's in the back of my head above my neck.

I am on 200 mgs doxy.

I need to know the cause of this.

The longer I go with Lyme etc., the more I understand that nothing can be done.

Still, it'd be nice to know if it was Lyme or some other reason. Back of head pops and snaps when turned. This is not coming from my neck. The pops occur there too, but mostly from my head. No kidding.

How do I go to a doctor and look him in the eye and say that -- "my head has popping sounds from the back and an extreme pressurirzed feeling."

Obviously, I do not like going to the doctors.

I want to cry.

more then once i have said plz lord remove the vice off my head, thats how it feels for me almost every day for yrs now. i havent nostest the poping sounds tho. but the vice like feeling is more then enough for me.

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since it does seem to be a weather - driven symptom, has anyone been to a dryer climate and felt "cured"?


Thanks. I got better for a bit and then the drainage hit. Bam, pressurized head feeling!

HopingToFindCure,

Here's another hug!

Are your neck muscles really tight? The poppy clicky noise sounds like it is coming from insidide your head when it is coming from the area at the base of your skull. I don't remember what the chiropractor said is back there, but it was swollen. That was in March, when we thought we were dealing with sinusitis. In April, I decided to go the holistic center for a real massage and Reki. They seem to help but are too expensive to get as often as I need. I want to go back to the chiropractor this week if can see me with the PICC line.

I have figured out how to take the detox bath and get my back into the water, and that seems to be getting things to loosen up. For the past two days, I used three bath towels under my upper body, arranged for support of my neck. And only added enough water so that when flat on my back, the water is just touching the bottom of my ears. I also put a hand towel over my belly. The only problem with this is that my knees stick out. Guess I can stick towels on there too, or sit up and add water. I also figured out that when I take a bath, it is better for the PICC line, not to wear the plastic sleeve, or it steams up in there, so I have to keep it sticking straight up along the side of the tub. The hard part is getting out. And then to shower off, get dry, and put on the sleeve, so I can get back in.

I have had good Lyme days when it was raining and bad Lyme days when it was nice out. I also read somewhere on here that the moon phases affect it too.

I don't know if this is helpful, but if nothing else, the visual of my bath desciption should give you something to laugh about.

me again!

I took the bath advice -- thanks turquoise sky!

It is working today.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I feel like a lot of the stuff is draining out. I'm sorry it that grosses you all out.

But I wanted to report positive feedback on the suggestions so far.

Blessings!

Hope for cure

gracie - I know what you mean.

about 5 years ago, my husband and I took a trip to Scottsdale, AZ. I couldn't believe how fresh the air was.

We had energy too! I didn't need coffee the whole time.

I wish we had never come back.

I had lyme encephalitis which I belive was the cause of my head pressure.  The symptom was exactly as you describe yours.  I got an SPECT scan at Columbia Presbyterian and it showed the "moderate encephalitis".  It took 2 months on IV rocephin before it went away.

I can relate to the pain in back of the head/neck - that was one of my first symptoms - relaxation/ massage and baths - are very good for relief - I also found that a 'Tens machine is useful' - I am in U.K. - so not sure if it is called that elswhere - it is a small 'gadget' with stick on pads that gently vibrate and send pulses to the areas where attached - like the machines for 'muscle toning'.

chiropractor and masseur told me the clicking/popping sounds come from muscles/tendons that are tense and become stretched a bit like 'elastic bands'

once I believed that the more I relaxed the less pain I would have - I started to get relief. - anxiety/stress is the worst thing for neck/head/shoulder pain.

Scorpio - Hope to see you in Scottsdale. Maybe give envita a try if you can stand all that controversial treatment...but IV Rocephin sounds tough too! I hope it brings you the relief you seek!

GorbyBelle - Googling tens machine . I've heard of it from another issue I had last year with the bladder. That's cleared up - Yay, so the body can heal itself -- that is good. The popping and snapping coming out of the tendons back there DID start when I had to work on inauguration day and got totally stressed. When I was a kid, I used to like to find golf balls and rip them open somehow. (Sounds strange but was bored). Anyways, the rubber bands would unravel. That's kind of what it feels like. That and the firecrackers we'd pop. They were red strips of firecrackers. (Anyone else recall but me?)

I guess I'm reminiscing about better days: old golf balls and firecrackers!

sigh.