Hi, I am very scared tonight and think I am dying. I have been back and forth between doctors and no one feels the need to give me an MRI after about well I guess 7 months of symptoms now. Well for the past couple of days especially, up the left side of my nose to the left part of me head it feels plugged up, like there is something there. I don't know how to explain it but it feels like a vain or something has expanded or there is something blocking in my head. Well, tonight I had this plugged feeling in my head, which turned to pain. Then it felt like a bug was running across my head and like hands were pushing down on each of part of my head, then I felt like I couldn't breath. Well that feeling is still in my head and my throat feels clogged up, and also I head a clicking in my head. I don't want to die but feel that I am. Everyone keeps telling me its anxiety but I'm not so sure. Please help. Also when I was running today my ear kept hearing a clicking noise, please help.

Hi,

I am sorry you are feeling so scared right now but I wanted to let you know that I have been where you are. I hope my short description of what happened to me will bring you some kind of comfort. In March of 2004 I was sitting at my computer when all of a sudden I heard a low ringing, clicking sound in my left ear....scared the crap out of me and I stayed up all night freaking out. Within about a week this sound became so loud and I could even feel the pounding in the left side of my head too. When I say loud I mean very loud and had weird sensations in my head along with with it. 5 dr. appts. later I demanded and MRI of my entire brain, I was convinced I had a tumor, blood clot etc.. I just knew I was dying. Noone could tell me any different, I was hysterical with worry and obsessed with it all as well. Got my MRI, even had the open MRI where you are not enclosed in a tube, because I was so scared. IT WAS NORMAL, nothing wrong at all. Well I was relieved I was not dying but the head problems were still there. I decided to just do everything I could to get my mind off it, hard work but I did it, 1 month later I was 99% better. The point of this story is that sometimes we can have all kinds of physical sensations and they can be ONLY ANXIETY related. What you need to do is demand that MRI, stand firm on this, don't take no for an answer. You will feel so much better once you know. I hope it turns out that it really is nothing serious. Try not to drive yourself nuts like I did until you find out. I will say a prayer for you and just wanted you to know that someone else out there has been through it. If you need someone to talk to I am here.

DF

Yes but this clicking sound is not i n my ear its in various parts of my head and I read that some1 who had a brain tumour had a clicking in his head. Thank-you for your reply. Am I just obsessing?

It was not only in my ear but my head too. It's hard to describe. I could feel pounding and hear loud ringing and sounds in my head. It almost made me want to commit suicide that is how bad it was. It does sound like you are obsessing too, that is what happened to me. Please demand that MRI so you can get some kind of peace, I swear I just knew I was dying and cried and fretted and panicked 24/7, got very little sleep and drove my family nuts. You have got to try to calm yourself down a little or you will feel worse.

Also, my mom had a brain tumor in 2003 and I can tell you that the symptoms you are describing are not the main ones when you have a tumor, trust me on that.

Do you have any kind of medication like xanax, valium on hand? Xanax helped me out alot during that time.

Df

It was not only in my ear but my head too. It's hard to describe. I could feel pounding and hear loud ringing and sounds in my head. It almost made me want to commit suicide that is how bad it was. It does sound like you are obsessing too, that is what happened to me. Please demand that MRI so you can get some kind of peace, I swear I just knew I was dying and cried and fretted and panicked 24/7, got very little sleep and drove my family nuts. You have got to try to calm yourself down a little or you will feel worse.

Also, my mom had a brain tumor in 2003 and I can tell you that the symptoms you are describing are not the main ones when you have a tumor, trust me on that.

Do you have any kind of medication like xanax, valium on hand? Xanax helped me out alot during that time.

Df
Never been perscibed any except 5 once when I went to a clinic. Clinics really keep brushing me off and I dont have a family doc right now.

hows yor mom now flower? great I hope

Thanks for asking JKDR1,

Mom is fine now. The tumor was benign. After an 8 hour surgery, alot of TLC, she is great. How are you doing?


DF

You need to get to a psychiatrist soon. Are you eligible for any gov. health care? I get all kinds of things in my head and my fear is not dying but being kept alive in this suffering. A lot of people with anxiety think they are really ill with cancer, tumors, etc. because anxiety gives really scary, ugly and painfull symptoms. If you have access to a public library, find a book on Cognitive behavioral therapy (many have anxiety on their titles) which will teach you how to control thoughts of impending doom. Good luck and by all means get treated.