Head Pressure, Balance/Dizzy, Noise -- What's It Mean?
For the last four or five months, I've had some really weird things happening to me. It started when there was extreme pressure in my head. It felt like whatever is inside my head was too large for its cavity and it was expanding. I also couldn't walk straight but didn't really feel dizzy as we know dizzy to feel. Also, when it happens, I hear this noise that sounds like a large drill drilling into the Earth for oil or something. Its a two beat noise and sounds like its coming far away. Sometimes my voice sounds far away when this happens, sometimes it doesn't. All of these things happen mostly when I'm driving, or am a passenger in a car, and then I get out. I'm fine when the car is moving, but when I stand up and get out, it happens. The first doctor I went to did a CT scan, a cbc, and checked my cholestoral. The CT scan and cbc showed nothing. My cholestoral is 347 but she said my symptoms can't be cause by high cholestoral. Because she couldn't find anything, she told me to go to a psychiatrist. MAn was I ****ed. I told her that was a cop out on her part. Today, I went to another doctor and told her my symptoms. I don't know whether she believed me but she said she'll look at the test results that were taken and let me know what she thinks. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong with me? It can't be psuedotumor or whatever I've been reaading about because I have no vision loss. Please help. Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated. I've spent four months on the internet trying to self diagnose and have come up with nothing.
Don't feel like it's too strange...I have a very similar problem. I have had it for about 3 years on and off. Whether I laugh, cry, sneeze, yell, get up, etc. I will feel a searing pain through my neck and base of my skull, and then it feels as if my brain is too big for my skull...I explained it to my doctor by illustrating my point this way: you know when you watch those old Tom & Jerry cartoons and the mouse hit the cat's toe with a big hammer and the toe makes a "boing-boing" noise and swells up? Well that's the feeling/sound I get. And sometimes I gray out a little. I haven't experienced it for a little while now, but at some point it lasted for 3 months. Before that time, I ignored it...thought I was being overly sensitive...or maybe I was dehydrated...or that it was a head rush. Then when it lasted so long, I went to my doctor, told him about it, and asked to be given a referral to a neurologist. The neuro looked me over, asked a series of questions, gave me a "test" wherein I touched my nose, walked a straight line, etc. and then he pronounced me over-stressed and depressed, and wanted to put me on Elevil. I refused, because I didn't need the added problems of side effects. My husband has been around and watched as I've had one of these "attacks" and he was the one who urged me to bring it up with a doctor. Just hold in there, and if you can afford a second opinion, try and see a doctor that's been recommended by a friend or colleague. I wish you luck and resolution.
[Thanks, Cheftoni. Your Tom and Jerry analogy was, in my opinion, very good. I'm guessing the doctor looked at you as if you had two heads. Sometimes the things that happen are so bizarre seemingly as we experiencee them, and by trying to put them into words, it is beyond possibility. The doctor I went to today was for a second opinion. She, atleast, gave me the impression she was taking me seriously. I can only hope. Unfortunately, the more time I spend on the internet trying to self diagnose, the more I am convincing myself of having every disease on the net. I think its called "medical school syndrome." Anyway, thanks Cheftoni for responding. Glad to know I'm not alone.
hi there,i have pseudotumor cerebri and it could well be, alot dont have the same symptons or any vision loss or headaches,the only way to find out for sure is a lumbar puncture which will show high cerebral spinal fluid,every other test can come back normal.check it out as ptc (or also known as intracranail hypertension) is a horrible disease that takes over your life if not controlled and maybe not now but can take yor vision,it took me a year to diagnose so push the neuro opthalmologists.
OK, Now, Head1, I'm getting scared. I've never had a disease in my life. Please tell me how it can be controlled. Also, how long before your vision is gone if it goes untreated. I am really scared now. I finally found the man I've been waiting for my entire life and we have plans to buy an old house together and fix it up early next year. I am so afraid I won't be able to continue my active life. Please tell me I'm wrong.
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