RaverNeko
18-07-14, 05:20
Hi everyone, :emot-wave:
I've lurked around this forum for quite a while and it's helped calm my nerves about a plethora of problems that I keep thinking I have, even though I obviously don't have them. One of my recent, unrelenting fears I have is brain tumors, and the reason why I'm afraid of it is because of my recent dizziness and headaches in the past. I apologize about the wall-o-text. You can skip ahead to the "Now that you've gotten this far..." section if you want, :weep:
Let me share with you guys my story. About two months ago I started to get a very dull one sided headache. It didn't really hurt or anything, in fact I'd say it was just a measly two out of ten on the pain scale. You could easily ignore it if you were preoccupied with other things. The scary thing was that Advil or Motrin wouldn't do anything for it at all. One day I got so nervous that I rushed to a clinic and asked them what was wrong, and the doctor there said that I had TMJ and gave me 600mg of Ibuprofen to take to help with the headaches. :unsure:
This calmed my nerves for a couple of weeks, but the headaches still persisted. The 600mg of Ibuprofen literally did nothing for me, so I made an appointment with my primary care doctor, which had a three week waiting period. Each long, excruciating day leading up to that appointment made me feel worse and worse because I continuously feared that I had a brain tumor. The day before I went to the doctor, I was shivering profusely. I was just so terribly nervous and it wasn't a pleasant feeling at all. :emot-crying:
When I walked into the doctor's office and explained my symptoms to her, she completely understood my nervousness and told me that my headaches were due to very stiff neck/shoulder muscles. She told me that, despite what Dr. Google says, these types of tension headaches can be one sided and it's not because of a brain tumor. I asked her the symptoms of brain tumors, and she told me that if I had a brain tumor, I would have problems walking (practically falling down), losing control over one part of your body, seizures, etc. She took a look and felt the muscles in my neck/shoulder and said that they were extremely hard and full of knots, and the remedy for those headaches was to simply exercise. :D
After she told me this, I began to feel better already. I wasn't worried for quite a while and things were starting to look up. About a week later, I came in contact with another doctor that my father met and told my story to him. He, again, reassured me that I didn't have a brain tumor and he would also get headaches like the ones that I would have and the way he dealt with them was to exercise. This doctor is an authority on the subject because he is a cancer doctor. He described to me the symptoms of a brain tumor which, none of them I had. :yesyes:
After the third doctor told me about how exercise helped him with his headaches, I started to go to the gym. After running on the treadmill for thirty minutes and using various machines that were designed for neck and shoulder muscles, I felt my headache go away! Hurray! It was such a relief and everything was great! :yahoo:
Now if you've gotten this far, you're probably wondering why I'm making a post on here in the first place. Well, interestingly enough, a couple of hours after hitting the gym, I started to get tension headaches. These headaches fit the definition of a tension headache perfectly, especially the ones on Wikipedia and WebMD. I would pop a Motrin to take care of them and usually they went away, but there was something else that accompanied those headaches soon after: dizziness. I started to get dizzy spells in the evening after going to the gym, and now I'm practically dizzy all the time. I'm able to walk and function fine, but the dizziness is enough for me to grab my head and go "Woah, I'm pretty dizzy." For the last couple of days, I started noticing that my back, especially between my shoulderblades, feels like it's trembling and shaking. I'm thinking that this dizziness is caused from very tight neck/shoulder muscles restricting bloodflow to my head. :ohmy:
This dizziness is causing me to worry, again, that I have a brain tumor. I feel like I should have no reason to worry, especially since three doctors completely assured me that I don't have a tumor, but I feel like it'd be a big help for me to get some support/advice on this sort of thing from helpful people on this wonderful forum. I apologize again for the wall-o-text, but yeah...
I've lurked around this forum for quite a while and it's helped calm my nerves about a plethora of problems that I keep thinking I have, even though I obviously don't have them. One of my recent, unrelenting fears I have is brain tumors, and the reason why I'm afraid of it is because of my recent dizziness and headaches in the past. I apologize about the wall-o-text. You can skip ahead to the "Now that you've gotten this far..." section if you want, :weep:
Let me share with you guys my story. About two months ago I started to get a very dull one sided headache. It didn't really hurt or anything, in fact I'd say it was just a measly two out of ten on the pain scale. You could easily ignore it if you were preoccupied with other things. The scary thing was that Advil or Motrin wouldn't do anything for it at all. One day I got so nervous that I rushed to a clinic and asked them what was wrong, and the doctor there said that I had TMJ and gave me 600mg of Ibuprofen to take to help with the headaches. :unsure:
This calmed my nerves for a couple of weeks, but the headaches still persisted. The 600mg of Ibuprofen literally did nothing for me, so I made an appointment with my primary care doctor, which had a three week waiting period. Each long, excruciating day leading up to that appointment made me feel worse and worse because I continuously feared that I had a brain tumor. The day before I went to the doctor, I was shivering profusely. I was just so terribly nervous and it wasn't a pleasant feeling at all. :emot-crying:
When I walked into the doctor's office and explained my symptoms to her, she completely understood my nervousness and told me that my headaches were due to very stiff neck/shoulder muscles. She told me that, despite what Dr. Google says, these types of tension headaches can be one sided and it's not because of a brain tumor. I asked her the symptoms of brain tumors, and she told me that if I had a brain tumor, I would have problems walking (practically falling down), losing control over one part of your body, seizures, etc. She took a look and felt the muscles in my neck/shoulder and said that they were extremely hard and full of knots, and the remedy for those headaches was to simply exercise. :D
After she told me this, I began to feel better already. I wasn't worried for quite a while and things were starting to look up. About a week later, I came in contact with another doctor that my father met and told my story to him. He, again, reassured me that I didn't have a brain tumor and he would also get headaches like the ones that I would have and the way he dealt with them was to exercise. This doctor is an authority on the subject because he is a cancer doctor. He described to me the symptoms of a brain tumor which, none of them I had. :yesyes:
After the third doctor told me about how exercise helped him with his headaches, I started to go to the gym. After running on the treadmill for thirty minutes and using various machines that were designed for neck and shoulder muscles, I felt my headache go away! Hurray! It was such a relief and everything was great! :yahoo:
Now if you've gotten this far, you're probably wondering why I'm making a post on here in the first place. Well, interestingly enough, a couple of hours after hitting the gym, I started to get tension headaches. These headaches fit the definition of a tension headache perfectly, especially the ones on Wikipedia and WebMD. I would pop a Motrin to take care of them and usually they went away, but there was something else that accompanied those headaches soon after: dizziness. I started to get dizzy spells in the evening after going to the gym, and now I'm practically dizzy all the time. I'm able to walk and function fine, but the dizziness is enough for me to grab my head and go "Woah, I'm pretty dizzy." For the last couple of days, I started noticing that my back, especially between my shoulderblades, feels like it's trembling and shaking. I'm thinking that this dizziness is caused from very tight neck/shoulder muscles restricting bloodflow to my head. :ohmy:
This dizziness is causing me to worry, again, that I have a brain tumor. I feel like I should have no reason to worry, especially since three doctors completely assured me that I don't have a tumor, but I feel like it'd be a big help for me to get some support/advice on this sort of thing from helpful people on this wonderful forum. I apologize again for the wall-o-text, but yeah...