pressure sensation and movement in skin/muscles in face and head

It's mental! The sensations are thinking. You have to stop thinking about them!!!

it completely sounds like TMJ. Id see a specialist that deals with TMJ. it can cause all kinds of things to include anxiety and muscle spasm in face, I deal with it all the time, but can't afford the corrective braces

Definitely "mental" when I JUST found this thread and have exactly the same excruciating pain and other overlapping symptoms as all these other people. I'm 23 and don't deserve to live like this. I'm not thinking about it when the right side of my face is in constant pain and literally looks different than the left in photos and will never relax, accompanied by the same cold and tingling sensations across my right shoulder to my index finger as the rest of these "mental" people. Why are you on this thread?

I am on this thread because I had the same condition and it was driving me to contemplate suicide because it was so painful and now I still experience the same physical symptoms but they don't bother me because I have practiced not reacting to them and strengthening my mind for the past 3 years and so I am trying to help you to get to where I am.

Most of us are way low in Magnesium. blood tests dont show this unless it is the rbc test not the serum test they always do unless you insist. Most Dr.s dont know this. Research this i.e. see Dr. Silver, Dr. for the astronauts.. also dont take MgO its not absorbed. Take a Mg chelate. 800 Mg / day for men 600 for women. after moving a pool table, I had pressure in my neck and ears and face, I am 71. went up to BP 200/ 120. pulse 100 and wouldnt come down after 6 hrs. er gave me saline. I was dehydrated , my electrolyte balance was off .. I ate bananas and gaterade and vit D and got better in 2 days. I am on Mg glycinate.

I am a 34 y/o Caucasian female with no significant medical conditions. I am overall, very healthy. I weigh 145 lbs and am 5'4. Approximately 1 and 1/2 months ago I began experiencing tingling in both of my arms and legs. Sometimes it would last for hours and sometimes it would only last for minutes. Sometimes it would only be in my arms and sometimes in my legs. Along with this I have experienced urinary retention (only in the morning), headaches (mostly tension headaches but some migraines) and problems with my memory (like forgetting my husband's phone number or my friend's name). In the past week I have begun to have pressure in my face and bouts of loopiness (like being drunk). The facial pressure comes and goes and can last anywhere from second to hours. Sometimes it is in my forehead and around my eyes, and sometimes it spreads across my cheeks, down my neck (slightly) and into my ears, where they feel full. A preliminary list of possibile causes that I have come up with via research and discussion with my doctor includes low vitamin D, B or magnesium, Lymes Disease, lupus, fibrimyalgia, MS, Addison's disease and anxiety/stress. I am sure that this is not comprehensive but it is a starting place. So far we have ruled out the first six. I am waiting to be scheduled for an MRI and a 24 hour cortisol test. But, truth be told, the first thing my doctor mentioned was stress. Now, I am not an anxious person nor am I depressed. But, I am under an inordinately large amount of stress and have been for an extended period of time. I believe I cope well overall. I exercise, spend time with friends, have somewhat of a social life and purpose to relax daily. I sleep well, usually 8 hours a night and I have restful sleep. I am driven, positive and I tend to fix problems rather than dwell on them. So my goal was to eliminate the possibilities that could be ruled out with blood or imaging tests. All of this being said, I am going to rule out MS and Addison's/mineralcorticoid imbalances before I begin to look into the possibility of stress or start taking medications.

I am also a person who needs evidence based infomation. Therefore, the following information helps to support the possibility of the stress diagnosis:
What I didn't know, apparently, is that stress can increase your cortisol levels, leading to a decrease in seratonin levels and a decrease in the expression of BDNF (Brain-derived neurotrophic factor). BDNF helps protect the neurons in our brain from dying and allow them "heal" themselves. Without it our neurons start dying and part of our brain (like the hippocampus) starts to atrophy and shrink, leading to many of these symptoms. Starting an SSRI or an SNRI has been shown to be beneficial and can reverse the low seratonin and atrophy of the hippocampus, although it takes an extended period of time (6-18months). Ketamine has also been shown to help with this as well as an addition of a GABA transmission enhancing drug such as gabapentin or pregabalin or MAO inhibitors.

Assuming that both tests are clean, I will be starting stress management therapy and in all likelihood an SSRI. If anyone has any helpful information or additional ideas, I would be greatly appreciative. Thank you!

My Brother had similar problem and it was eventually diagnosed as Trigeminal Neuralgia - have this possibility check out by your Dr.
It is caused by a nerve behind the ear that shorts out against a vein and can be cured by placing a spacer between the.

I don’t know if it is the same but I can feel the muscles in my face moving VERY dramatically (ex. If I move my eyebrows I can feel the muscles in my forehead to behind my ears and down my jaw all move)

Did you get checked for diabetes?

Hi Carol, thanks for the info and sorry to hear about your situation. I'm new to this temple discomfort (accompanied at first by vertigo, for which I'm now taking meclizine (sp)) and pressure in my cheekbones. I do think that it may have to do with nerves in my neck and back as I've played guitar for 30 years and that posture creates nerve pain long term. I go for deep tissue massage every few months to get my neck cleared out and the therapist thought it was possible for the nerves in the neck to be affecting the ear canals since everything's more or less connected. She also recommended sauna time, which I've yet to try, but will after working out at the gym. Rob

I have to experienced these pulling sensation's under my right eye into my cheek. Usually the pull starts from my ear to my nose like as if some one is drawing a thread tight along my cheek. A warm tingling sensation. Never painful. This has been going on since approx 2010. It started during the day, thought I had a hair hanging on my cheek kept wiping it away. Last few years it's now only at night or early morning when I'm still in bed. I have no idea why this happens or what started it. I'm used to it now. Would like to know what it is.

I was stupid to do guided meditations on youtube and this is how it started with me. It is what those crazy new age people call kundalini syndrome.
One said here he would rather have cancer , so would I.
It has been more then year of suffering ,every single moment .
You would not even imagine what have I tried, I have been to 25 different doctors/healers and no one knows how to cure this.
I have only one life, how it is possible that I have destroyed it with this.
I was so successful and happy ,why I had to do this stupid things. I even bought gun to kill myself but my father cried and I couldn't do it.
I was freemason and admirer of new age and this is what brought me here...it is truly somewhere in between nerve damage and demonic oppression. My reasonable mind tells me it is brain/nerve damage but than again there is so much things that point to another side and I truly cannot believe what I am writing .

I found on line some people who managed to free themselves from this evil symptoms but when I read your posts I get so depressed. How the hell no one of you couldn't stop this , I cannot live for ever with this.
I will wait till 31.12.2020 and if this doesn't go away it will mean that God abandon me for good because I was working against him and I will have no choice but to kill myself.

It is only the dark night of the soul. You must keep practicing and go through it. You must increase your equanimity! Equanimity is the stage after the dark night.

To practice what? Meditation? That is typical new age stupid recommendation and probably the best way to screw someone completely.
I wish I never tried that.

No, Buddhism. Real meditation. Not new age BS meditation.

Look up the stages of insight. Kundalini syndrome are the dukkha nanas, the dark night of the soul. It means that you are now aware of your subconscious mind, repressed emotional pain. Notice that all of the sensations are focused on and tugging and pulling and hurting some part of your body where you identify as the sense of self, the location of "I" in the body. As you practice correctly, you go through the pain to the sense of self behind the pain, and eventually, you dissolve this illusion of self, and the Kundalini syndrome will go away and never bother you again.