Strange dull ache.

[SpencerK]

Hello there.

I honestly do not know what my issue is, neither does my doctor, nor the Neuro I have been to see.

Basically, I have a constant dull ach on the top right side of my head. It kinda like feels like a spot would, but on the side of my head. Now, I had an MRI done about a year ago, that was clear.

The dull ache is constant, and I can feel it all the time. Its throbs when I stand up, bend down - pulses, if you will. Now, this same area does (only happened about 4 times) sometimes give me incredible pain, terrible pain - which I have had diagnosed as Ice Pick headaches. Now, these do not come often. When they do, its horrible, very very painful. So, I am calm about this. But what is worrying me is this constant dull ache, I wake up - its there, everything I do - its there.. Even typing now, it feels likes its throbbing. So very uncomfortable.

Addtionally, my memory loss is bad, my confusion is bad. I can learn something (currently studying) and totally forget it a day later. Sometimes I cannot remember how to spell the simplest of words - and just recently even when people speak I do not understand them, I have to ask them to repeat themselves.

I have had my hearing, eyesight checked out - nothing wrong there. I do not drink, smoke, I weight train 4 times a week; I run.

Now, I would obviously be concerned if I had not had an MRI a year ago. And if it was a brain tumor, or something - then surely now (after having this for about 2.5 years) I would have more intense symptoms.

But still, what is this dull-ache, why is it there on that specific side of my head. I have a vein on my right temple, when I push that it seems to activate the dull ache. Could it be a blood vessels ? Could it be some vein?

I just cannot carry on with this, its uncomfortable and every time I feel it I get a sense of dread.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much.

[RhiannonsMoon]

Hi Spencer,

How awful for you, I've noticed that men more than women get that particular issue. Is it possible that you are constantly tense? Especially if you have a vein in your temple. I wonder too at the weight training, whether it has caused a blood vessel to enlarge in your temple, and then where the blood goes into the brain, there vessel/vein returns to the normal size so it causes a pressure to build up?

Did your Neuro do an eeg? that would pick up any abnormality in the brain function. I really hope you found some relief from it; one way is to place warm wet cloths on your forehead and around to the side where the pain is, I know that helps the veins and vessels to relax and return a normal blood flow. I say warm because if you have a narrowed vein or vessel, it will help it to let blood through, whereas a cold cloth will narrow it causing it to close causing more throbbing.

Would like to know how you are feeling now and how you are doing,

Rhian