louwilliams
03-04-08, 12:20
I've been getting a kind of "head zap" like and electric shock in my head on the right side. it feels like at any moment something is going to go POP in my brain. It started about 6 months ago, so instead of going straight to the doctors, I went to the optician's for an eye test. he said my eyes were ok but as i use the computer and read a lot, he recommended I have some very very low prescription glasses for when I do this. Ive heard that opticians can see behind the eye and sometimes can see tumours?
Anyway, they continued, nearly every day until I got so worried I went to the doctors. He shone a light in my eye, turned the lights off in the room and checked a few things, and said it sounded like a form of neuralgia (ive had neauralgia before and it was NOTHING like this-the pain was all over my head, it kept moving and it was in my face too)I told him that I was convinced that it was a tumour and he said he'd done all the checks he could do and assured me it was nothing sinister. He gave me tablets called Pregabalin (lyrica) but I never took them as I hate taking any meds (i stupidly read the leaflet tht comes with them and convinced myself i'll get every side effect)
Now me, being me, didnt and still dont believe the doctor. I am absolutely convinced that it is a tumor/aneurism and at any minute it will burst or I will drop dead. I just dont see why spomething that hurts so much and causes so much pain, stays in the same place and doesnt move around, there has got to be something there to worry about.
I get it nearly everyday but sometimes I only get one or 2 "zaps" Also, I feel like i need to close my eye when they come on-I also rub where it hurts as well as the side of my head (temple area) But sometimes I have days like today-As soon as I opened my eyes it was there, while my head was still on the pillow. They have been getting more and more regualr and now i'm panicking as they arent stopping. Normally if i only get one or 2 and they go away, I can cope with them but if i have them all day I start to really worry and feel like i have to go to bed to get (if I have a sleep i wont feel them and therefore wont panic)
Can anyone offer me any advice please? I just want a bit of re-assurance, something to put my mind at rest from someone who has had or is having exactly the same as me and knows its nothing to be worried about because at the moment its ruining my life-I cant concentrate on anything apart from this and I have 2 children and a partner to think of
Thank you for listening
Lou xxx
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Anyway, they continued, nearly every day until I got so worried I went to the doctors. He shone a light in my eye, turned the lights off in the room and checked a few things, and said it sounded like a form of neuralgia (ive had neauralgia before and it was NOTHING like this-the pain was all over my head, it kept moving and it was in my face too)I told him that I was convinced that it was a tumour and he said he'd done all the checks he could do and assured me it was nothing sinister. He gave me tablets called Pregabalin (lyrica) but I never took them as I hate taking any meds (i stupidly read the leaflet tht comes with them and convinced myself i'll get every side effect)
Now me, being me, didnt and still dont believe the doctor. I am absolutely convinced that it is a tumor/aneurism and at any minute it will burst or I will drop dead. I just dont see why spomething that hurts so much and causes so much pain, stays in the same place and doesnt move around, there has got to be something there to worry about.
I get it nearly everyday but sometimes I only get one or 2 "zaps" Also, I feel like i need to close my eye when they come on-I also rub where it hurts as well as the side of my head (temple area) But sometimes I have days like today-As soon as I opened my eyes it was there, while my head was still on the pillow. They have been getting more and more regualr and now i'm panicking as they arent stopping. Normally if i only get one or 2 and they go away, I can cope with them but if i have them all day I start to really worry and feel like i have to go to bed to get (if I have a sleep i wont feel them and therefore wont panic)
Can anyone offer me any advice please? I just want a bit of re-assurance, something to put my mind at rest from someone who has had or is having exactly the same as me and knows its nothing to be worried about because at the moment its ruining my life-I cant concentrate on anything apart from this and I have 2 children and a partner to think of
Thank you for listening
Lou xxx
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