New Symptoms: Headaches and Dizziness

[GrizzlyLeader]

Well, Ive got to love my new symptoms. Headaches and slight dizziness. About 2 1/2 months ago, out of the blue, I startd having ringing in my ears. Not just a little, but very bad. Prior to this, I had pains shooting up my neck. Then, after the ringing started, I began having mild headaches. Then came an occasional bout of dizziness. Sometimes it would even feel like something had a grip on my brain, then would release after a few seconds. Very odd and hard to explain. Conclusion: I had a brain tumor. I looked up symptoms of brain tumors and found headaches, ringing in the ears, dizziness, & involuntary muscle movements. I could be the poster boy for all those symptoms. My G.P. sent me to an ENT. First thing was a hearing test. results: hearing loss due to being around fighter jets for 2 years when I was in the Air Force in the late 80's. Titinus is generally caused by hearing loss (term for ringing in the ears). Next, the Dr. ran a scope up my nose to look at my sinuses. What he found was 100% blockage on one side, and 90% blockage on the other. Sinus issues can certainly cause headaches. Put me on antibiotics for 3 weeks, and ordered a cat scan of my sinuses to see if it has cleared up. Also did a dizziness test to see if the dizziness was associated with ear issues. Waste of 2 hours. Came back normal. I go back to ent in a couple of days to get cat scan results. Had a follw-up appt. with Neuro from 3 months ago. Told him about the headaches and he ordered an MRI of the brain. I was as convinced I had a brain tumor as I was I had ALS. Got results back today. You guessed it, negative. My twitching has morphed again and as changed to body wide quivers. Sometimes my entire torso. Calves still do the twitching about the same. I could really care less about twitches anymore. They have become such a normal part of life. The bad thing is once I accept a new change in symptms, it freakin changes and progresses into something worse. The worst thing I can do is stay staionary. If I go outside and mow the grass, work on fences (I live on about 15 acres and raise a few head of cattle) or go fishing, I dont hardly notice anything at all. Its always when Im layed back or when I wake up from sleeping that I notice everything going haywire. Bottom line is ever since the original ALS scare, I always think the worst when it comes to medical issues. I was never like this before. I am so pathetic now. It will be nice when I finally run out of body parts to be checked. So far I have had 3 emg's, mri of the spine, neck, and brain, cat scan of the sinuses, hida-a-scan for the gall bladder (which showed a bad gall bladder), and egd and colonoscopy, ekg, stress test and god knows how many blood test. After all of that i have only had 3 things confirmed wrong. I have neuropathy caused by diabetes, titunis, caused by hearing loss, and a bad gall bladder. Whats odd is all of this crap has happened in the same 9 month span. Coincidence??????????? Thats my story so far.

 

[juliacristina]

Sounds like anxiety to me. Mirrors a lot of my own symptoms, and my own freaking out.

 

[MeaganGranger]

It's so interesting that this has happened to you as well. My story is actually quite similar if you have never read some of my first posts. I actually developed twitching about 3-4 months after I started experiencing the same exact type of headache you are experiencing. In fact I had the same exact reaction about my headaches ( "Oh my god I must have a brain tumor"... or another favorite, that I still freak out about sometimes is "Oh my god I have an aneurism!"). However I had a CT scan of my brain and a brain MRI and both were completely normal (with the exception of a small cyst filled with cerebrospinal fluid, which is completely benign and has nothing to do with anything... so I don't know why I am mentioning it, lol). The CT and MRI definitely ruled out a tumor or an aneurism, so what do yah know, I just have headaches.... SUCKS.I see a neurologist for both the twitching and the headaches and all of the neurologists (3) that I have seen are confident that the twitching and the headaches are unrelated. I was diagnosed with "migraines" however there are a million different kinds of headache, and I used to get migraines (I know these are not normal migraines). Migraine, while very specific, is often a term a lot of neuros will use when they don't know the exact kind of headache you are having. I still go to the neuro to keep an eye on them, but as of now I am not treating them with any medication. My control of my headaches has to deal with controlling stress and tension in my muscles, controlling anxiety, and getting enough sleep (although allergies and sinus problems will still aggravate them).Also Note: I often get intense vertigo and dizziness as well... just another fun symptom!