Pressure in head!!!!!!!

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i have been getting pressure in head for months and it is daily and constant now. I have tried allsorts! Chiropractor, eye tests, dentist, medication.........I have just had MRI and don't think it'll show anything serious up!!!

Please can anyone help......don't think it's anxiety or stress, not sinusitis......god knows but it's getting me down and i am desperate! 

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    Hi guys. Alan did you mention physio treatment. I am getting twice a week, and it slowly seems to be working. I have the pressure feeling but nothing like it was. Gradually it seems to be easing away. It's worth ago. Apparently it's all down to you sitting position, especially if you work on computers, or the way you sit at home. The muscles in the back of the head, once get aggravated can take a while to ease out, sometimes months. Thay are all connected to the muscler areas around your side and fore heads. Same type of feeling as sinusatus, but not. It's worth talking to your doc about it. All the worry that I have gone through, test scans and it's just muscle by the looks of it. 
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      Tried physio. Am on with magnesium now and have acupuncture Friday smile fingers crossed x seems like I've wasted 18 months of my life with worry sad
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      Nothing for the first month, it takes time to start having a win win effect. It's being 6 weeks now, but with a difference now, easier. Some days I feel it but most days it disappears. So it's making a difference. I will keep going and keep you informed of progress.
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      I've been to physical therapy (if that's what you mean by physio). What did he/she help you with?

      Also, I have a posture support thing that I can wear. What helped you change the way you sit at home?

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    Hi Alan, I am 35 and my head pressure began just over 2 and half months ago. 1 dr diagnosed me with a sinus infection and put me on a antibiotic, which I had a bad reaction to.. However, I ended up in ER a few a days later as the head pressure just became unbearable. They did a CT, came back normal. The ER dr said I didn't have a sinus infection at all as I had no symptoms of it, just head pressure so he diagnosed me with cluster headaches and prescribed Butal (basically tylenol and caffeine) to help with the headaches. It did help keep them at bay for a while but I still wanted to get to the source. I went to a Chiropractor who showed me on Xray that my C1 and C2 vertebrae are out of alignment and that this may be the cause of my head pressure. I went a few times for an adjustment but didn't feel that it was resolving my issue. I went to a Nuero dr who ordered an MRI which came back normal. We took it a step further and I had a Lumbar Puncture (spinal tap) and blood work done today at the hospital to check for possible spinal fluid leak, lupus, MS, infection, inflammation, etc.. If no answers from these tests, then it's back to the drawing board I guess. I have always been very healthy, active and recently began a mostly all organic diet. Just not sure what could have caused this head pressure. The last apartment I rented had mold/mildew issues I feel. It was a nice place right on the water and would have never thought it had issues but I could smell it on my clothes after a few months when I traveled. Although we couldn't see evidence of it, they did 2 ozone treatments over the course of 2 or 3 months. The building went under renovation 4 months after i moved in, my head pressure began 2 months after that.. After the smell came back after the 3rd time, they ended up letting me out of my lease. I was there a total of 8 months. Maybe this could be the cause of it in my case, we'll see. I will keep you posted. Thanks.
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      Jessica...can u let me know how your tests come back ? thanks
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      I sure will. I wanted to add my story as I find this helps me tremendously to getting closer to the answer in seeing that others are or have experienced similar to exactly the same symptoms. I should know the preliminary results by next week*
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      Hi Jessical what happened with the spinal fluid lea tests? Did they come out negative? Did you also possibly find out and were you able to cure it?
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    I am so happy to know I'm not alone. I have had the vice grip for 6 years. After having teeth pulled the dentist gave me hydro's and for those 5 days i was pressure free. so my primary back then agreed to put me on tram's but it's getting to be where docs are so afraid to write scripts i want off and to find a cure
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      Do you smoke or vape because this blocks the sinus cavities thus prevents gases travelling up the asophocus to escape through the sinus air ways, this is why we all have eye, nose , ears linked to keep pressure off them , actually pressure off ears & eyes to the nose.

      hope this can help.

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      Were you able to find what was going on with your head pressure? My daughter had wisdom teeth pulled in 2015 and has had squeezing head pain ever since.
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      Hi jenny 

      Sorry to hear about your daughter my head pressure has been going on since i had a head injury in my left tempel i aslo get facial pressure and tingling sensation on my gums and face , doc said it could be atypical facial pain because of the trigeminal nerve injury its been 9 month iam geting these horrible squeezing pressure, i was put on amatripline which helps the edge off also using cbd oil which helps , if she got it after a wisdom tooth it could be a case it irritated the trigemial nerve , has she seen a neurologist also there is eastman dental hospital in london which they are very knowled about these types of pains , 

      Hope she gets better soon ????

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