Constant Head Pressure

Hi mommb,

Has your son seen a Neurologist who is a Headache Specialist? If not, then he really needs to see one as soon as possible! Has anyone suggested that he try Indomethacin? This works for some rare headaches and some Headache Specialists like to rule this out from the onset!

I wish someone had suggested it to me as it could have saved me 20 plus years of suffering!! Granted it has turned out that I have a very rare Headache, but I was treated for migraine and sinus problems for years!!

Does your son have any fluctuations in his constant pain or does it remain at one level all the time?

take care

Ann

Hi Orthe,

Migraine is different for everyone, and is often described as pressure either over the eyes/temples etc. Along with Migraine comes the feelings of malaise (strong feeling of being unwell with tiredness), and some times sickness and nausea! The malaise that is associated with Migraine can last from hours to days after the attack!

Of course, if a sufferer experiences several attacks per week, this malaise can be constant! Also along with the migraine attack can come feelings of disorientation, lack of concentration, feeling out of it!!

There are many types of headache and migraine is just one of them. I have a very rare headache called Hemicrania Continua as well as Migraine. It is not uncommon to have more than one type of headache!

Hope this helps, take care

Ann

Hi to all of you. I"m also new here and its good to see i"m not alone. I too have been suffering for a few years now off and on,more on than off. I have all the same symptoms as most of you listed here, band of pressure around my head ( all the time, seems to worsen when bending over),constant fullness and ringing in both ears, constant dull headache, very uncoordinated and dizzy, feeling of being out of it all the time, chronic fatigue,vision problems, stiff neck,and just a generally not feeling well.I don't know what else to do. I been to a few different docs and no one can seem to find whats wrong. Cat scans, blood work,stress test on my heart, wore the heart moniter for 24 hours, nothing, cheched for diabetes,thyroid all negetive. Doctors seem stumped and sometimes I think they just dont care as they are trying to pass me off with anti-depressants. This is not stress or panic attacks. I am a very active person and generally happy, until this happens. Been suffering for 4 months straight now and it is very hard to cope with. Have to start back to work soon and i dony know how i"m going to do it. Has anyone come up with any causes or at least relief from this? Something very interesting to all of us! My sister called last evening, said she saw a show on tv with a woman with all of our symptoms and was diagnosed with a condition called Kiari malformation. Kiari disease is a complex group of disorders characterized by herniation of the cerebellum through the large opening in the base of the skull (foramen magnum) into the spinal canal.
Symptoms of Kiari malformation & Kiari malfunction
The majority of patients complain of severe headache and neck pain. Other common symptoms are dizziness, vertigo, disequilibrium, visual disturbances, ringing in the ears, difficulty swallowing, palpitations, sleep apnea, muscle weakness, impaired fine motor skills, chronic fatigue and painful tingling of the hands and feet. Because of this complex symptomatology, patients with CM1 are frequently misdiagnosed. I did some digging of my own on the net and was very surprised by the symptom simalarities. I"m going to run it by my doc next visit. Its worth a try. Here is a link you might find interesting. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/chiari/detail_chiari.htm. Copy and paste to your browser and let me know what you think. Thanks all of you and hopefully somebody will come up with something soon.

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Vitamin B complex give me some relief from constant head pressure. The pressure is much worse if I don't take it. You can pick up Vitamin B complex off the shelf at any pharmacy. Do some research via Google and you will find plenty of info regarding Vitamin B defficiency and problems with the brain.

Good luck everybody.

Hi Kay..I can understand your feeling of pressure. I have constant pressure in my eyebrow/nasal/eye area.  I ache behind and around my eyes and they feel sore.  My nose actually feels like it has grown and across the bridge of my nose it has enlarged.  I have been to several drs. over the past 2-3 yrs.  The neurologist I have been to diagnosed me with atypical facial pain.  I take Topomax 200mg per day and Gabopentin 200 mg/day.  It has still been bothering me very much even with that.  There are different kinds of facial pain which I need to ask my neur. about.  The sun gives me bad headaches, and i ache constantly from the back of my neck.  I've had a MRI which was normal.  This started with my face burning at night for several years, I used ice packs on it.  Hope I have been some support.  Dallas

Hi Tulip

I hear your furstration...My husband also has constant head pressure for over 5 years now.....he was in an auto accident it has left him permantently disabled, cognitive issues, pain, emtional and physically.....His pressure and HA's increase as the  day goes on...

I am here for you......let me knwo how I might be able to help

JB

Hi there I am new to this site I foubnd this when I tryed to look up constant head pressure. I am really fed up with alot of my doctors, but I have been having the constant head pressure as well as lots of other symptoms for over 8 years now and I am only 27. The member named Blu in the above post sounded very similar to what I have been through, but here is my story my head pressure and dizzy spells/trouble drving at night started at the same time. I first tried to ignore it but it only got worse and so finally I mention it to my doc and nothing really gets done I had a neck xray that was normal. then for about a four year span I had 7 different unrelated surgeries and so this was put to the back burner , but continued to progress with a vengance. Finally the trouble with the dizziness I was getting was getting to the point that I was aways lightheaded, or dizzy falling or stumbling easily. I looked drunk when walking! It got to the point where I was no longer able to drive even in the day time. Along with this I started to have trouble with my hearing, severe nausea, loud screeching and ringing in my ears. Finally my doctor sent me to see an ENT he sent me for a bunch of tests and they found that my balance function in my right  ear was off by 70% and he told me he thought I had menieres disease so he sent me to another specialist and that doc thought my test results were odd so he retested and when gthey retested my balance was off by another 10% so now 80% off in my right ear yet he said he wasnt totally sure that it was menieres. Anyways now I am still in limbo with all this I very rarely drive which is horrible, and now the pressure in my head is no longer ignorable, it is so extreme that not only bending over is impossible but sometimes even turning my head. I am just not sure what to do and it is frustrating to have so many dead ends, like the thing with my ear if menieres didnt cause the nerve damage in my ear what did? They also told me there is nothing that they can do about the nerve damage it is permanent, so I am permanently off balance! My head is so dizzy it is hard even to go up escalators, like in the mall, even with help. well it was amazing to see how many people go through the same thing

I am new to this site and like others found it when I googled "constant head pressure"...I am 35 and about a month ago got my very first ever migraine...scared the holy you know what out of me...rushed to the ER and was given Imitrex which took it away...Been to my Doctor & she writes it off as stress b/c of my long commute to work, what my fiance' does for a living (he's a cop), i have a 2 year old and that we are planning a wedding...I am scheduled to see a Neurologist in a couple of days so I can have an MRI done just to "be safe"...had a CAT Scan done in the ER and everything looked great...I have only had 1 other migraine since the first but I feel that I have constant feels like sinus pressure all over my head & in my face.  My face feels like its feel asleep & has all those needle feelings on it so I am constantly touching it to make sure that I stil have feeling...Even my ENT Doctor thinks its BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) which I have now had two repositioning done where I have to wear a cervical collar for 48 hours...very miserable...At this point I guess I am waiting to see the Neurologist to make sure I dont have a tumor or something...Glad but unhappy to know that I am not alone in my suffering. 

Hello. I've been experiencing chronic, all day, all night headaches for about 7 weeks now. It SORT OF started a few days after I got sick w/ typical symptoms. I went back to work and the next day I was really lightheaded, nausiated. The doc started me on some antibiotics (10 days total) and a few days later diagnosed me as diabetic Type II and quickly got my blood sugar regulated. Since then, had diarreah every few days, seemed to go up and down but my headache stayed just as bad as ever, though it was worse when the diarreah was 'coming on'. After once or twice weekly bouts of diarreah my head would clear up a little but never go away. I started taking Lonox which slows down the diarreah a good bit but the stomach and crippling head pain remains. All this time I've been unable to sleep at night, sometimes having heavy sweating, usually sleeping about 1.5-3.5 hours before waking up, then tossing and turning the rest of the night. :(

To go back further, about 6-9 months ago my stool began to seem less 'solid,' started having more gas. about 3 months ago I had a really bad attack of very watery diarreah in the middle of the night which went away after a few days. It happened again a few weeks later, figured it was something I was eating. But no headache after these two bouts of diarreah which both came on and left quickly, only during.

Any ideas what's going on? My neurologist is clueless, nothing shows on an MRI. No pain meds seem to have any effect.

I do have a sleep study tonight but I'm scared it'll be useless because I won't be able to sleep.

Hi everyone, so relieved to find this thread, I have so much in common with so many of the posts. I'm hoping some of you still check in. I have battled pressure in my head 24/7 for the past four years, like so many others, not one second goes by without it being there. What comes along with it just as bad, severe bouts of vertigo that leave me literally clinging to the bed as well as constant inbalance, stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea, ear pressure and neck and shoulder pain. Recently I got so bad I didn't leave my bedroom for months. I've been worked up many times, numerous MRIs, cat scans, ENT docs, cardiologist and balance specialists, everything shows to be "OK". Migraine seemed to be the diagnosis of exclusion. I guess my question to everyone is, is there anyone else whose life is totally ruined by this for so long? It came on so suddenly also, one day I was a busy mom, fitness instructor and wife, the next a suffering mass. I really worry that they're missing something, I can't understand how I literally feel like I'm dying with no help. I'm petrified of medications, I tried topomax once and within a half hour of the first dose the pressure was way worse and it sent me into a week long severe attack. I have two young children and a husband who need me, I feel if this doesn't kill me the heartbreak of missing out on thier lives will. Praying for you all.

well i can say that i had my mra and mri done last week and got the results...everything is normal...right now i am talking to my ob/gyn about possible hormonal migraines since my fiance' did point out that it seems i am on or about to start my period when the major migraines hit...i have stopped my birth control pills and will have an IUD inserted during next period to see if that helps with the hormones...hopefully it does!!! but every time i get a twing of pain in my head or blurring vision or my vertigo is acting up i kind of start to panic and have to talk myself down from having a full blown panic attack...i am also going for a balance test with my ENT in 2 weeks...i also feel i am getting tension headaches b/c of sitting at a desk all day on a computer & i drive over an hour back and forth to work 5 days a week...good luck to all and it does make me feel better i am not alone in dealing with constant head pains.