Does anyone else get head pains from Anxiety?

So I always think I have a brain tumor, but my anxiety actually started from a weird heart palpitation whereas my heart decided to take a break for 10 seconds and leave me passed out.
For 3 months I have been having what is better described as head pains than headaches.

Right now its just the back on my head that hurts on the left. It feels like a nail has been in it and removed and now the area is sore. I also felt like a stick of ice was shoved into my left temple and the pain would not go away for 10+ seconds. its like a brain freeze kind of pain, but thankfully I have not got them again these past 2 weeks.

I have been suffering from weird head pains for 2 and a half months, and when they first happened they came with sudden feelings of passing out (nothing went black, but it was a passing out feeling. for a long time my dad thought I was getting dizzy, but I know the difference between spinning and fainting).


I also have 1 other question. I feel that anxiety has made me very aware, even if I am going to bed. Usually we dont remember the last minute of what happens when we fall asleep, but I am aware that we get dizzy, feel like falling, and get a passing out feeling. If I let it transpire over me for just 2 more seconds, I would have fallen sleep, but I always get shocked even when I expect it and sit up...
Does anyone get that too?

Describe your head pains, your nightmares and your sleep interruptions, because I want to feel like I am not the only one here.

Headaches, cluster headaches, migraines can be caused by anxiety. It's always a good idea to see your doctor to have it checked out. Regarding your sleep issues - i have something similar. Almost every night when I'm first drifting off into a cozy sleep I get a shot of adrenalin through my body which jolts me awake. Gahh...so annoying! Takes me about another 30 minutes to calm down and drift back off.

Take care, see your a Doc and be well!

Hi D.T. and welcome.

I am sorry to hear all that you are experiencing lately.:(

I am concerned about what you described as a palpitation...

...were you checked out medically after this episode of heart rhythm disruption and fainting?

Were you given a clean bill of health physically, and dx'd with anxiety, just to be certain of what you are dealing with?

That being said, anxiety can cause all sorts of physical symptoms, including the head pain (often tension) and the hypnic jerks upon trying to fall asleep (they drive me nuts!!)

One of the best exercises for both is Progressive Muscle Relaxation. I will post a link below...as well as one for our full Resource section here.

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=9&m=104206

http://www.stress-relief-exercises.com/progressive_muscle_relaxation.html

Using the coping skills recommended there should bring you some relief.

Also, talking to your doctor about other methods of treatment such as therapy, medication or both may be something you want to consider, if anxiety continues to be a problem.

Post with us anytime. Support is key, and we understand and care.:)

Scaredy Cat

I did come across this trick to get rid of my headache every time, but I do not understand how this works.
Am I getting headaches as a sign that I am stupid? Am I getting headaches because I am not focusing and answering questions like I mean it?

This is the little trick that will get rid of my headache after repeating it 4 times.
"Where is my headache. What shape is my headache. What color is my headache"

Maybe headaches are signs that our brains are warning us we are stupid, so if we become aware we are doing something very stupid, like repeating that 4 times, then it corrects itself.

Yes, I read them, thank you for the one that reliefs stress, but I am also impatient when I am stressed, so I count 5 as 2 and 10 as 5. Singing along to a song on loud volume helps me best with stress, and I prefer that.
As for the other link, I did not really read it all, because I read "suicide hotline".
Things either really REALLY rub onto me, or I am a sorcerer.

2009 January 12 is the ticket of my favorite movie. I still have this ticket and it is to a movie called "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage. A girl writes lots of numbers and it gets buried and pulled up 50 years later. She predicts all the worldwide catastrophes and there are 4 left to go and Cage tries preventing them.

Around 2010 I predicted there would be an earthquake in Haiti, and a few weeks later, there is one. (I was remembering about this movie).

I have many stories like these that do not involve movies, and things do tend to rub onto me. And why I never watch tragic movies every again is because I saw The Fault In Our Stars.
A few weeks later I get skin cancer (I am fine btw. got it early and I didnt even have to do chemo. just a radiation) And this movie is all about teens dying of cancer....

I am wondering why no special agents have come to take me away because I have real proof of laws of attractions.-----------------------

Anyways, I dont really want anyone to take me away.
I hear anxiety can be increased if you have low testosterone. I do have an embarrassing varicocele and I read they lower testosterone.

If I am going to use my tools to build something some day, then I should get them fixed right.