Strange Feelings in Head

[writtenin1981]

I am 31 years old, I have been diagnosed with anxiety disorder. I have had chronic sinus problems all of my life as well. The past week or two I have also had bouts of irregular sleep patterns and insomnia (though I am getting those straightened back out.)

For years I have felt strange feelings in my skull. They were not pains so much as 'swimming' feelings going through my scalp and the side of my head. I chalked them up to dental problems as I am constantly having to get dental work done.

This started last night and it has me very concerned. I laid down and a strange feeling of pressure began in the back of my head at the base of my skull in the lower right side. It wasn't painful, just annoying, unusual feeling pressure. It went away after about a minute. I didn't think anything else about it. About 9am I was walking through my house and felt it again. It only lasted about 10 or 20 seconds. It was in the same spot and it began to worry and concern me. I do not know what it is or what is doing it. It is not painful and I don't seem to be experiencing any other symptoms with it so I do not want to make a trip to the emergency room over nothing.

However, when it happens I immediately begin worrying about any number of things ranging from stroke to aneurysm to blood clot.

I feel around the spot after it happens and there is no pain, no tenderness, nothing unusual. Does anyone have any advice?

[sixpack]

first this is NOT an ER situation.   if you feel a need to have it looked at, then you go to your GP.

personally I don't see a need to see a doc about it at all.  Personally it sounds like a person who lives an anxious lifestyle, who monitors all kinds of sensations and then ascribes something sinister to them.

we must remember that our bodies are not swiss watches.  We have all kinds of oddities happen to us that mean nothing.  unfortuantely we anxious tend to either notice the oddities more, find them alarming and thereby making the sensations last longer or feel worse OR because our bodies are often stuck in the fight/flight mode, we are simply experiencing many anxiety type symptoms.

so my advice would be to start some of the proactive habits that we all need to do to get better---ie therapy, self-help books, meditation, positive affirmations, learning about anxiety and how it affects people, exercise, eating healthy, volunteering, hobbies---these are all LONG TERM things, not do it once or twice and then abandon when it doesn't work.  then we need to abandon the reactive habits---reassurance seeking, self-chekcing, googling etc.

[writtenin1981]

I've pretty much done that in one form or another for about a decade now. I began to experience problems pin pointing various things I noticed about my body after my grandmother died. For years I was convinced that I was going to die young, and after that I would experience periods where I'd worry about my heart (heart palpitations), my head (these strange head feelings I get), and even various diseases.

It's been a part of who I am in various ways really since I was a child.