Head pain

when I was 1st diagnosed with lyme my main symptom was head pain that sent me to the ER. I now get alot of headaches again but this time they seem to be different. I either get stabbing pain, mainly in the temple area.and I get alot of head pressure in the back of my head. My question is what do you think is causing this? (lyme or one of the co infections)

Thankyou. I kind of thought that. Also when I get the bad head pressure, It makes me feel faint and like Iam going to pass out. Its such a wierd feeling.

I hear you guys! And I "feel" your pain.

Outside Lyme and co-infections, the stabbing pain are migraines, the tightness is called a tension headache brought on by stress of course.

All this courtesy of google.

Tis the season for sinuses on the East Coast -- with the rain and what not.

Because I have dizziness when I turn my head, I got in to see an ENT.

My head seems to hurt a lot lately.

It's a high pressure feeling too. It was SO bad the other day, I nearly went to the ER, but what would that have done? So, I'm waiting it out and hoping for the best.

Reallly feel out of it.

I woke up to eye ache. My head will hurt when I couch, move, or sing. and laugh.

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Sorry, I just need to vent some. I'm always scared of symptoms since I tested CDC positive for LD. I'm done with treatment, but blame every subsequent thing on Lyme. Maybe I quit treatment too soon, but with all this, I felt the antibiotics with no end in sight were unusual.

They don't cure that's for sure. Just keep it at bay...

not again, the gabapntion 300mg is $103. for 90 pills at wal-mart, and not on the $4. plan :(
you may want to check into med coveage from the county your in. since i havent been able to work in 3 yrs now, i have nothing. i got into the county program and they cover up to so much med coveage a yr. and i get 3 screps a month free. so you know the gab is 1 i have dont there . i always check with wal-mart to see whats priced what.

yes i belive it is.but i just found out i have lyme in april. it sure did explan a lot to me.
Good luck, hope your headache eases up soon

chief, sorry to hear you deal with this as well. There has to be a med that will help. I for one know my med is not strong enough. It gets rid of most of my joint pain but as for my head and brain it does not help. Or has not yet. It is awful that you have had a headache for over a year. Mine come and go, there are some days I dont have one at all, and other days I dont even want to get out of bed. I hope you are better soon.

sorry -- I would like to add this just in case it's of any help to anyone. Since my early 20's, w/ the exception of only a few, the only headaches I've gotten have been from low blood sugar. I am not super hypoglycemic, but my blood sugar did drop below 50 w/ a 5 hr test and the headache I got from that was from HECK. It is very rare that my blood sugar goes low enough to cause a headache, because I have to address it well before it gets that bad. But on the occasions it has gotten that low, I've gotten a headache that nothing touches, except making it thru til the next day.

I believe Lyme can cause hypoglycemia, so maybe that should be considered for some of you?

I had horrible nonstep incapacitating heads headaches as my main symptom of Lyme when I relapsed last august. I was diagnosed with Babeasioisis... Mepron and Azithromycin helped but not completely but high doses of homeopathic Nux Vomica (3G , from Germany). I am headache free for 6 months!

I started with migrans about 8 yrs ago, from out of nowere it was new to me. i was someone who hardly ever had a headache then wam i had a biggy, so i learned how to deal with em. on the onset of 1 i would pop 3 extra strengh tynole, and place a ICE cold rag on my face and behind my neck, lay down for about an hour and it would go away. this happened on an off for a few yrs. then about 4 yrs ago i got 1 i couldnt get rid of lasted for a week. i missed work couldnt eat, shoot i couldnt get out of bed for days. then it was gone fast as it showed up. so i go about my life and then almost 3 yrs ago i get 1. this is the big daddy of all migrans. woke me up at 4am. i was holding my head rocking in bed tears running and knew i was going to die. i really thought i had a brain anrurisma (sry cant spell it). this was the start of my daily living just not as intence.
if i am glad for anything about finding i have Lyme it is the med the nuero gave me for migrans for me it works. now all i have is a dull throb. witch i will gladly take over thinking my head is about to explode at any moment.
now i do not know if its from lyme disease or not. i also had a MRI that showed lesions in my brain. from lyme or migrains and or cancer, is what the report read.
my luck its all of them ..lol

i know i wouldnt wish them on anyone. so count yourself exremly lucky +lyme that you do not have them. and i pray you never do.

I used to get migraines when I was in my early 20's.  The doctors thinks I was infected around that time from my symptoms ( I didn't know anything about LD at the time, alot of the things I had going on might have made more sense if I had).  I got a Rx for something that seemed to help the pain, but had it's own side effects so I didn't like to take it.

KO

RD, I've read that some people with brain lesions from LD once treated with Abx will have their lesions disappear (something I don't think you usually see in MS).  If you do have another MRI done let us know the results, it would be interesting to see if yours improve with treatment.

KO

Dear RottenDog,

If you have an MRI done, get a copy of the results. You may want someone to review them or you may want to compare them to new results down the road to see if theire's a change.

Claritin kind of helps as does sleep.

I get a dull pressure feeling around my head and when I turn it. I can also be whoozy and feel like my car is still in motion even when it's not. I will be checked by and ENT for the heck of it. Usually, this hospital I go to doesn't wince or bat an eye when I say the words "Lyme Disease". As you know, no one knows anything about this disease -- but at least they don't laugh and encourage me to get help.

Amazing to say that these days. The thing to know is it's the family doctors who usually don't want to be LLMDs.

Not on any ABX -- but I probably should be. It's good for me to break from them to see how I'm doing. Am I supposed to be on them for the rest of my life? Are you guys planning on being on them forever?

Curious...