Head pressure (Anxiety?)

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trustme i feel the same way.. its effecting the way i play sports..when i play hockey i feel like im not even me anymore.. if anybody has an answer tht qould be great i am only 15

Been like that for years, i find relaxing cds are good, get someone to massage your head, your tummy and your head wok together that is why you feel a sick tummy, relax your tummy by doing breathing exercises;

i have the identical same exact story and problems as you!!! every little detail lol pretty scary im also 20 years old! email me at 

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Hey There well i have had my Anxiety for about a month and it all started one night in bed when my heart started to race and i kept working myself up. I went to the hospital cause i was so worried about what it could have been i got blood clot test done and and my thyroid and all the works that could lead to a racing heart! but now that that has happen i keep trying to find something else to worry about and now it is my headache. i cant get rid of it and it really sucks, it goes away when i dont think about it but its the constant worry! the doctors gave me anti depressants but the side affects were to much and they gave me lorazapam but i only use that when it get out of my reach.... I feel like that feeling will never go away! im going to start working out though ive heard it dose wonders...

I have had this problem over the past 9 years. I have tried all the major antidepressants because it was believed to be some sort or anxiety/masked depression. The thing is that, whenever I take these drugs, the pressure in the head goes away soon when I wake but comes back during the day. It's as though it decides to go to sleep as well and awaits my wake to terrorise me. In the past, I worried about it a lot wondering when I would feel normal again. Well, I've never felt normal for 9yrs now but I've decided not to bother about it. I live my normal life ignoring it completely. Occasionally, I get this choking sensation under severe stress but goes away with breathing exercises. I now decide to live my life without medications.

This might be something associated with the progress of insight, not joking, that happens with meditation. Some people have a natural knack for traversing this territory without trying to meditate, they are just naturally more attuned to being in their bodies, which is what insight practice is all about seeing. These symptoms can arise at some early stages of insight practice. They can be related to anxiety, can create a nasty feedback loop where there is an emotional input that underlies these tensions, which the tensions appear to attempt to cover up, thereby confusing the underlying emotion and not letting it be experienced so that it can go away.

One potential solution is to adopt an insight practice.

I have the same thing for the last 3 weeks now, My forehead has so much pressure and the top and back of my head too. I have real hard neck muscles and cant seem to loosen them. My dr. gave me a muscle relaxant and it didn't help at all. I am wondering if I have whiplash or something cause i did bump my head a few weeks ago.

this all symptoms of an ongoing anxiety and panic attacks triggered by something you've done or stressed you out for a period of time and finally made your head it's home. Now your problem is not medical more than psychological. If I were you I would stop taking these pills and start see a psychiatrist and what you are suffering will be a thing of the past. This is all in your head.

I feel your pain. I am twenty years old almost 21 and i have had the same symptoms for over two years. I am constantly getting what seems like a sinus infection (throat hurts and swells) and i constantly 24/7 have the plugged ear feeling like when you get a nasty cold. It is driving me insane and its almost not even worth living anymore i am never clear headed. sometimes the pressure gets so bad i just have to lay down. just wondering if you ever got relief and if so how did you do it?

I started getting severe anxiety attacks in my mid to late twenties, back in the late eighties. After a few years, I ordered a book that provided techniques for reducing anxiety. Though not completely eliminated, I managed to reduce my anxiety attacks, which began to occur with both less frequency and severity. However, as the anxiety receded to some degree, a constant pressure arose in my head. Even more strangely, I found that I could exert what I can only describe as a kind of internal "push" against the pressure, causing it to tighten and "move around" in my head. Often this pressure would tighten and then be followed by a kind of "pop," resulting in a variety of strange sensations in my body - shocks up and down my arms, heaviness in legs, spasms in various parts of my body, dizziness, nausea, "crackling" in my head, among other strange things.

As of this year, this will have been going on for twenty years. I'm not recommending anything to you; I'm only relating my experience. I have been "squeezing" this pressure in my head for all this time, with the "pop" and subsequent sensations, and it has gradually reduced. I had a MRI a few years ago, not only because I wondered if anything could be detected, but also because I wondered if any damage had been done. The MRI showed a normal brain. I feel that I am almost at the point of getting rid of it, if things continue as they have been. It has often been painful, with excruciating pain in my head with the increase of pressure. I honestly don't know if I've done damage or not. However, apart from the head pressure, I feel healthy. My job requires me to have annual physicals and I appear to be generally healthy.

I mentioned my problem to a number of doctors, including my primary care physician. Their facial expression upon hearing about it revealed that they considered it one of the strangest thing they've ever heard. I don't think that doctors in general know what to make of it. I don't know if this helps, but I wanted to provide you with an example of someone who has lived with this for a long time and has continued with life as usual. I'm not recommending a course of action, only describing my experience. Good luck to you!

Know how you're feeling mate. Have had this for eight years & still trying to deal with it. Mine was from taking estacy one night & have regretted ever since. Surely there must be doctors out the somewhere who can overcome this problem?

Every doctor to whom I've spoken about it gives me a perplexed look. They all thought it was weird. To be fair, they were specialists in other fields, but I thought they might know something. When I mentioned it to my primary care physician, he set me up with a consultation appointment with a psychiatrist, but she had no clue what I was talking about. I honestly don't think most - and perhaps all - doctors really know what it's about. Though they have a great amount of knowledge, they don't know everything. I think there are still many conditions, particularly mental disorders, that are very mysterious to them. I think that whoever discovered what was truly at the bottom of this condition would win a Nobel prize!

I feel this way too. Mines been off & on for years. Always feeling detached and like im gonna passout

Hi. I've had this feeling for 3 weeks now after a night of partying with cocaine (a half gram... which is supposed to be not that much). I regret it completely and wish this feeling would subside. It has gotten better but definitely not 100%. I probably feel about 60% as good as I used to. I wouldn't wish this feeling on anyone, but it's a good lesson learned.