Hi. For the past two weeks I've felt a slight pain in my head when lying down. Last Friday it worsened and I went in to check symptoms (big mistake). I've been stressed ever since and woke up the following 2 nights with headaches and anxiety. Now I'm terified I have a brain tumor. The headaches come 1-4 times a day. Lasting around 1 hour each. Not very painful, but annoying. They are usually in my left (temple) side but can be in the back, top of head and right temple side as well. The muscle above my right ear feels like it has pressure on it. The headaches often come when I lay down or wake up in the morning. I'm known to be a hypocryte and get medical panic attacks on myself and others.
I've been to the doctor, eye test and neurologist and all said I was healthy and didn't have any symptoms of a brain tumor or increased brain pressure other than the daily headaches. I'm having an MRI scan tomorrow, just to get peace on my mind. But I sit here shaking and can't sleep. Terrified of waking up with another headache as usual and that I will have a brain tumor.
Honestly it sounds to me that it's a tension headache/ possible migraine. I'm leaning more towards tension headache which is more of a "pressure feeling " as if you have a tight headband on and on top feels as if someone is pushing down on your head ? I had that on for about 4-5 weeks. Trust me it's NOT worth stressing over. I got time off work for it, stayed home all day everyday , worried, googled too much, it's not worth it it makes things worse . If every professional is saying that you're fine then YOURE FINE. Please trust me when I say this that you have to believe them and STAY AWAY FROM GOOGLE. I learned my lesson after this and got stuck with bad anxiety after it ended up depression from all the worrying I did . Just try to keep active if you can nothing too much, watch a show, make sure you eat, drink a lot of water and try not to stress. Tension headaches come from stress.
Hello krissa I feel your pain but I'm almost certain its anxiety because I experience these same if not more head sensations myself daily and it been happening off and on for almost 10 months now , I get head pressure, scalp burning and tingling , head soreness , sharp shooting head pains, tension headaches , neck pains and tension , one sided headaches near temple and back of my head as well and the list goes on and on so trust me you are not alone even after I had the MRI of my brain and head and the Dr said I was fine I'm still worried that I have something going on in my head , and the fact that anxiety can cause such serious scary sensations