dodo
19-06-10, 12:17
Hi all
This is my first post - I was recommended the site by a friend.
I am currently suffering with a pain in my head but it is only on one side and I'm quite concerned about it.
It's happened three times now. The first time I woke with it. It was on the left side, just above my ear, into my temple and felt like someone squeezing the inside of my head. A little while later I started to feel a little dizzy on that side (maybe me just getting anxious) and my face was a little tingly. I started to worry I was having a stroke. Mentioned it to my Dr who dismissed it without checking me over.
A week ago it happened again - just the squeezing pain - and then went after about 10 minutes.
Today it is back, I woke with it again and it is again in the same place and isn't there constantly. It will do it for a couple of seconds, go away for perhaps a few minutes, come back, go away, come back, go away.
I have taken paracetamol but it doesn't seem to have done anything.
So is this something sinister or just tension etc?
I am worried it's either a tumour, an anyerism, or temporal arteritis.
I'm not seeing Dr till Wednesday :(
This is my first post - I was recommended the site by a friend.
I am currently suffering with a pain in my head but it is only on one side and I'm quite concerned about it.
It's happened three times now. The first time I woke with it. It was on the left side, just above my ear, into my temple and felt like someone squeezing the inside of my head. A little while later I started to feel a little dizzy on that side (maybe me just getting anxious) and my face was a little tingly. I started to worry I was having a stroke. Mentioned it to my Dr who dismissed it without checking me over.
A week ago it happened again - just the squeezing pain - and then went after about 10 minutes.
Today it is back, I woke with it again and it is again in the same place and isn't there constantly. It will do it for a couple of seconds, go away for perhaps a few minutes, come back, go away, come back, go away.
I have taken paracetamol but it doesn't seem to have done anything.
So is this something sinister or just tension etc?
I am worried it's either a tumour, an anyerism, or temporal arteritis.
I'm not seeing Dr till Wednesday :(