ECR
25-05-07, 00:35
So for the last couple of weeks or so I've been getting pressure in my face when bending over or sometimes even just leaning my head forward. Sometimes it seems to come on without me even moving my head - can be pressure around the sinuses, the jaw, the forehead.
But also getting slight facial and head aches as well. All over my head in different parts. A lot of it seems focused around my sinuse area but all over my head too. Not bad but annoying - and only really annoying cause I'm worried about it (relate?!) Can be patches on both sides of my head, can be small strips of aching anywhere. Sometimes even a small dot!
I have high blood pressure and in the last couple of weeks have been incredibly anxious about my BP (been sent for a few tests in dealing with lifelong heart thing - nothing out of the ordinary but I have somehow developed extreme anxiety about it). Finding it hard to think about anything else even though I have no reason to think anything's particularly wrong.
Ended up in A&E the other night with a squeezing feeling down my right arm. Turned out to be nothing but somebody from the 'stroke unit' came to talk to me (that's enough to make anyone anxious!). Spoke to him of these headaches and he said it was uncontrolled high blood pressure. This does not ring true to me as I've never had these face pressure and aches before and my BP has been signifigantly higher!
Spoke to my GP and he said that he's never seen anyone with high BP who had this symptom. He thinks, or rather by default assumes, its anxiety. But these don't sound like classic tension headaches to me.
Could this just be anxiety? Sinuses? Anyone had these symptoms? Would love to hear about it if so!
Thanks,
ECR
But also getting slight facial and head aches as well. All over my head in different parts. A lot of it seems focused around my sinuse area but all over my head too. Not bad but annoying - and only really annoying cause I'm worried about it (relate?!) Can be patches on both sides of my head, can be small strips of aching anywhere. Sometimes even a small dot!
I have high blood pressure and in the last couple of weeks have been incredibly anxious about my BP (been sent for a few tests in dealing with lifelong heart thing - nothing out of the ordinary but I have somehow developed extreme anxiety about it). Finding it hard to think about anything else even though I have no reason to think anything's particularly wrong.
Ended up in A&E the other night with a squeezing feeling down my right arm. Turned out to be nothing but somebody from the 'stroke unit' came to talk to me (that's enough to make anyone anxious!). Spoke to him of these headaches and he said it was uncontrolled high blood pressure. This does not ring true to me as I've never had these face pressure and aches before and my BP has been signifigantly higher!
Spoke to my GP and he said that he's never seen anyone with high BP who had this symptom. He thinks, or rather by default assumes, its anxiety. But these don't sound like classic tension headaches to me.
Could this just be anxiety? Sinuses? Anyone had these symptoms? Would love to hear about it if so!
Thanks,
ECR