Lou4
21-05-18, 16:27
Hello I have been living with health anxiety for a long time and have been getting by really well for years now. Recently I have had a lot of stress and I think that's what has brought this on, however I'm getting a symptom that I find hard to explain and doesn't seem to even exist when I search which is causing me a lot of anxiety as I can't get anyone to reassure me.
I keep getting these mild headaches, not in any particular place just can be mild pain anywhere on my head, but along with it I get this noise in my right ear that I can only describe as possibly a muscle spasm, but I don't feel it only hear it, it lasts for less than a second but always happens with the pain and can happen several times within a minute and is just happening all day from when I wake up. It sounds sort of like a spasm/vibration, it's similar to that noise you get when you bite your tongue and you're in that cringing pain for a second (maybe that's just me though I just assumed it was normal for everyone).
It's just really freaking me out and I'm now fixated on it and I was just hoping someone would know exactly what I was talking about and could reassure me that anxiety can definitely cause this. I wouldn't even know how to begin to describe it to a doctor. It's definitely not a ringing sound or anything like wax moving etc, it's like a spasm.
Thanks for any reassurance, I just wish I could live like a normal person and not obsess over the mildest symptom .
I keep getting these mild headaches, not in any particular place just can be mild pain anywhere on my head, but along with it I get this noise in my right ear that I can only describe as possibly a muscle spasm, but I don't feel it only hear it, it lasts for less than a second but always happens with the pain and can happen several times within a minute and is just happening all day from when I wake up. It sounds sort of like a spasm/vibration, it's similar to that noise you get when you bite your tongue and you're in that cringing pain for a second (maybe that's just me though I just assumed it was normal for everyone).
It's just really freaking me out and I'm now fixated on it and I was just hoping someone would know exactly what I was talking about and could reassure me that anxiety can definitely cause this. I wouldn't even know how to begin to describe it to a doctor. It's definitely not a ringing sound or anything like wax moving etc, it's like a spasm.
Thanks for any reassurance, I just wish I could live like a normal person and not obsess over the mildest symptom .