Occipital head pressure/face pressure

i see Dr J has a video on this on his channel

might throw up some ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qllsnztc4d0

Ugh yes, this is a terrible symptom. Have you tried craniosacral therapy? That probably helped the most with that particular symptom, for me.

I'm a broken record about this, but the cause for me was neurological hyper-reactivity and inflammation. Treating MCAS (supplements, low-histamine diet, DNRS, nervous system support) resolved it. Anxiety worsened the symptom, too, and pointedly taking care of my stress and anxiety levels (and in turn my nervous system) made a big difference. Herxing caused it to get worse as well.

For me, it wasn't as simple as treating X infection resolved X symptom.

Saraeli can you elaborate more on what you did to help the issue?

I didn't see your last question to me until just now. Sorry for the delay!

I have posted before extensively about how I treat MCAS as well as a long list of other options for treating MCAS, so I won't bore you by repeating all of that. I assume you were asking for more clarity about taking care of my nervous system, so I'll make a list here of what helped me.

Meditation (including with apps)
Mindfulness exercises
Breathing techniques
Tapping (EFT)
Guided visualizations
Curable chronic illness app
DNRS limbic system retraining program
Yoga (restorative yoga at first; tons of videos on YouTube)
Walks
Vagus nerve toning exercises (gargling, humming, singing, laughter, breathwork)
Activities that make the hands cross the midline of the body
Wim Hof techniques
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Strict policing of my negative thought patterns
Expressive therapy (mainly art and writing prompts for me)
Craniosacral therapy
Acupuncture
Supplements (ashwagandha, magnesium, CBD, B complex)
No sugar or stimulants, limited processed foods
Treating MCAS
Time with friends
Time to myself
Facial exercises and stretches for my face and neck
Religiously safequarding sleep and sleep hygeine
Full-spectrum light lamp
Letting go of stressful or toxic relationships
Setting healthy boundaries
Doing work to resolve my own internalized ableism
Not overloading my system with ingested tick-borne disease treatments (at one point, my LLMD had me taking 45 things per day, and that's just not something my body could process)

When I was especially disabled, I also benefitted from:
Earthing (just getting my feet on the actual earth every day)
Rebounding (using a porch swing; to get my lymph and blood moving when I was too ill to exercise)

Initially I went through this list to add asterisks to the things that helped the most, but there were asterisks beside basically everything! I needed a major overhaul, and I don't know if I would have gotten better without all of these things. Stress on the nervous system can make every process and system in the body dysfunctional. Do whatever it takes to get your body out of "fight or flight" every day, for as much of the day as you can.