To the last Guest who posted, is your pain constant? I'm just wondering if it has to be constant for it to be Fibromyalga. I also find it interesting that that is a diagnosis for this. B/c (at least according to wikipedia) many ppl with Restless Leg Syndrome are also diagnosed with Fibromyalga. My mother has really, really bad RLS. Even on medication she's up most of the night. And like I said in a previous post, she also has whatever this burning sensation in your head is.
I have had the same symptoms as everyone else. My head jerks to the side involuntarily. I start to look to the right and then, bam, my head turns further than I expected (which is why I say involuntarily). I get a hot, searing pain from my neck and up over my skull. It burns for a few seconds and I have to stop what I'm doing and just wait for it to subside. I used to go to a chiropractor and after awhile of seeing a chiropractor, the same thing you have all described started happening. Sometimes it was a couple times a day, or a few times a week. I stopped going to the chiropractor and it eventually happened less frequently. Now, it only happens a few times a year. I was wondering if it was a nerve thing. I think that hot pain is a symptom of a nerve issue. I've talked to doctors and other chiropractors about this. None of them have any idea what it could be.
I have had this exact same problem ever since I was about 12. It used to happen more often when i was younger but now its maybe twice a year at most. I just assumed it happened to everyone but when I tried explaining it to people in work last week they all looked at me like I was mental. I have searched the net high and low for any sort of explanation for this but cant find any. I just put it down to twisting my neck too quickly and possiply straining a tendon or ligament or something. At least its not life threathening!!!!
I turned quickly in bed last night and got the sharp burning pain at base of skull...it lasted longer than usual (approx 30 seconds) Usually lasts about 10 to 15 seconds but very painful....and then when it stops it is like nothing happened....It happens approx to me once a year and when I turn my head very quickly. I thought I'd look it up on the net and this is the best site i have found.....I wonder is there an actual medical term to describe it?
This ssounds exactly like what I have. But unfortunately no answers on this topic! Usually it starts as a pulled muscle in my neck, then extends upward into my brain. It hurts a lot and feels like something bursted in my head and i feel this warm sensation spreading in my brain. I don't know what the f**k it is. I searched up 'pulling a muscle in your head' but you don't have muscles in your head. So it must be something happening to our brains? Every time it happens I imagine that something has been nicked or some vein exploded in my head and that warm feeling is the blood gushing out. Then, seconds later, everything goes away and I feel normal again. What the hell is it.
There seems to be no information about this. I'm glad there is a site with people experiencing the same thing. This has been happening to me my whole life as well. It just happened today. I turned my head, heard a click or pop then felt burning sensation for about 2-5 seconds. I asked people as well and nobody knew what I was talking about. Has anyone seen a neurologist about this or had a cat scan done?
same here whats is this called
Well count me in as another. Glad to know it's not a certain death or anything as far as we know. Same symptoms, quick turn, warm burning sensation, grab my head and curl up and then 10 seconds later, nothing.
No offense to anyone, but more people posting "I experience the same thing", doesn't really help me. I mean, sure, it makes me feel like less of a freak, and to know there are others out there with this same issue... but has ANYONE found any kind of answers to what this is?
I've been looking all over and have even talked to a couple of doctor friends, but haven't found any answers. I've been getting these things for as long as I can remember (I'm close to 22 now) and it is always accompanied with half of my tounge going completely numb. They seem to be happening far more frequently now (3 times in the last week, 4 in the last few weeks when usually it's about 1 every month and a half or so). As other people have said it usually happens after turning my head quickly (and sometimes I can sort of feel it coming and lessen the pain), but even that is not always the case.
Sorry I can't really be of any more help.
Sorry I can't really be of any more help.
ok so i think i have been having the same thing as msot others here have posted and today soemthing difernet happened while i was laying down. i started to turn my head slightly and i could feel the beginnings of the sensation about to occur, and i stopped expecting the big burst of flash hot, but instead it was just a minor burn much shorter in duratuion as well and then i literally felt a muscle or tendos unknot! It felt like when you get a deep tissue massage and soemoen finds a knot and they work on it for a while and then you literallt feel the know dissolve with a click. i felt that today but the click came all by itself. im not a doctor but this made me think that the hot burn flash thing is related to muscle tension. Anyone have any additional imput?
I have had this condition my WHOLE LIFE. And It's scary. You never know when it will happen. What happens to me is; I turn my head and BAM a sharp pain shoots up my neck into my brain. It's very warm and it makes my brain numb for about 10 seconds. It really sucks and I hate it. I feel for all of you, but at the same time I'm glad you relate.
Also gald to hear I am not alone in this mystery. I had this happen to me much more frequently as a child, and it always happened at the back of my head. When I was very young I had a few situations where I hit the back of my head very hard, but checked out okay at the ER. I was always afraid that maybe these occurrences had something to do with those injuries? Could this be anyone else's possibility?
Hi All, I have experienced this my whole life as well and was wondering if anyone has heard of acroparesthesia? This is a condition which mainly affects the hands and feet and can be related to a rare condition called Fabry Disease. I have been looking into the symptoms of Fabry disease because I have quite a few of the symptoms and my mother has end stage renal failure.
I'm just wondering if acroparesthesia can affect the head because the description of the pain sounds similar to what we are describing although most if not all the information about seems to be about hands and feet and usually says that the pain can last for minutes up to a couple of days - which is not the case for me - as with a lot of you it seems to last for 10 - 15 seconds or maybe 30 seconds and disappears in a short time after that and again as a lot of you have described its like nothing has happened after that.
I'm not saying that I have fabry disease however I am going to get tested for it to hopefully rule it out.
I'm wondering if this information is useful to any of you and whether or not anyone else here has other symptoms which you may have never felt were connected before? ***edited by moderator*** web addresses not allowed
It used to happen to me a lot as a kid/teenager and from memory I only had one episode of it last year (may 2) but definitely less frequent as an adult.
Thanks heaps, I hope to hear back from some or many of you soon.
I'm just wondering if acroparesthesia can affect the head because the description of the pain sounds similar to what we are describing although most if not all the information about seems to be about hands and feet and usually says that the pain can last for minutes up to a couple of days - which is not the case for me - as with a lot of you it seems to last for 10 - 15 seconds or maybe 30 seconds and disappears in a short time after that and again as a lot of you have described its like nothing has happened after that.
I'm not saying that I have fabry disease however I am going to get tested for it to hopefully rule it out.
I'm wondering if this information is useful to any of you and whether or not anyone else here has other symptoms which you may have never felt were connected before? ***edited by moderator*** web addresses not allowed
It used to happen to me a lot as a kid/teenager and from memory I only had one episode of it last year (may 2) but definitely less frequent as an adult.
Thanks heaps, I hope to hear back from some or many of you soon.
well i have this all the time, and ive just been to the doctors, and they are sending me for a CT scan.
i have asked my friends about it and they give me a weird look.
sometimes they laugh at me when its happening because i go from being fine to being like that and they dont get why im in so much pain.
i have asked my friends about it and they give me a weird look.
sometimes they laugh at me when its happening because i go from being fine to being like that and they dont get why im in so much pain.