Has Anyone Had Headache Like Pressure in the Head?

[David077]

Has anyone ever had headaches, kind of like pressure inside the skull?

I feel like something pressing down my back of the head, forehead, nose, and sides of my head, the position of the pressure changes according to the head position, it has lasted 5 days already. I have chronic sinusitis and doctor told me that I have to use Nasonex spray to release closed fluids in my sinuses. I cannot visit ENT or another doctor, because I'm aboard for a long time in Canada.

I'm very distressed from it and waiting for it to pass...

 

[MBH]

I have head tinnitus, but for sinus pressure I use Singulair at night, Tylenol for severe sinus problems.

I also like Zicam nasal spray.

I use all of it and it did not change my tinnitus. It has worked for me.

 

[David077]

@MBH thank you for the answer, I use now Nasonex + advil(the same as Tylenol) and seems they help for pressure partially.

I just want to figure out if I feel the pressure because the sinuses or something else, did you also had pressure in back of the head when you had sinuses pressure, or only in the forehead area?

 

[MBH]

I have head tinnitus and can feel pressure in the back of my the head. Just to let you know Advil and Sinus Tylenol are different.

 

[1000]

https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Steam-to-Relieve-Sinus-Pressure

Try that

 

[David077]

I have head tinnitus and can feel pressure in the back of my the head. Just to let you know Advil and Sinus Tylenol are different.

I have head tinnitus too and by regular do not have any pressure in my head. One my friend have also head tinnitus and sometimes pressure and pain in back of the head, be his tinnitus started after weed smoking and overloading without adequate sleep.

And you right about Advil and Sinus Tylenol, Advil only contain Paracetamol and Sinus Tylenol contain both Paracetamol and Pseudoephedrine.

 

[David077]

*Advil Ibuprofen, not Paracetamol.

 

[Dr. Jay Hobbs]

Hi David, It would be QUITE uncommon for sinus problems to cause pressure in the back of the head. Since the sinuses are all located on the front/facial area, that is where the pressure/pain stays. The pressure in the back of the head is typically related to muscle tension from posture, emotional stress, and/or neck joint dysfunction/strain. Sometimes the jaw can cause upper neck/suboccipital discomfort also.

Either way, I suspect the pain medication will help those symptoms temporarily also.

 

[David077]

Hi David, It would be QUITE uncommon for sinus problems to cause pressure in the back of the head. Since the sinuses are all located on the front/facial area, that is where the pressure/pain stays. The pressure in the back of the head is typically related to muscle tension from posture, emotional stress, and/or neck joint dysfunction/strain. Sometimes the jaw can cause upper neck/suboccipital discomfort also.

Either way, I suspect the pain medication will help those symptoms temporarily also.

Hi Dr. Jay Hobbs and thank you for your answer.

About two weeks before the head pressure pains, I had pains and stretches in my jaw and ever since I also feel induration at the temples.

In the other side, I had pain pressure in my head in the past about two years ago, then it lasted up to a week and probably the cause was lack of sleep and cooling of the head. I remember being relieved if I chewed something.

This time the pressure pains lasted over a week, it begun two days after lack of sleep and slight head cooling. I feel relieve when I chewing food, lying in bed and little after nasonex spay and tylenol.

In the day when the pressure pains begun, I went home to rest and the pains passed. Next day, I went to GYM and since then my head has been caught and has not yet been released.

Does this give a clearer picture to narrow the possible causes?

 

[Dr. Jay Hobbs]

ever since I also feel induration at the temples

-- could be sinus or trigger point referral from muscles

it begun two days after lack of sleep and slight head cooling

-- lack of sleep makes lots of conditions worse..."head cooling" can cause blood vessel constriction of underlying muscles and may result in worsening trigger points

I feel relieve when I chewing food, lying in bed and little after nasonex spay and tylenol.

-- chewing food can affect eustachian tubes, but more directly would cause alternating contraction-relaxation of jaw muscles, increasing metabolic activity and blood flow
- -nasonex would have anti-inflammatory effect, perhaps opening up sinuses and eustachian tubes and Tylenol takes away some of the pain

Sooo, all that said, it still leaves us as either sinus or trigger points...or BOTH. I'm not certain in your case.

I like the word and concept of "synergy", because it helps us understand the results that come from the combination of causes contributing to t a condition and solutions for a condition. Although it is comforting to know THE cause and THE solution, sometimes the answer is not either-or, but both.

 

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