Your head sensations

Nice not to be alone in all of this

Same as everybody else really..

-Exploding melon head feeling
-Pressure behind eyes
-Like head is in a vice
-Feeling like a pressure is pushing the inside of my head to the side and everything is bright white briefly vision wise
-Numb back of head & neck and tickly feeling down spine like honey is trickling down the inside (drowsy/sleepy/unfocused at the time)
-Tinitus
-Auditory hallucinations
-visual "overlays" (e.g. Mal sees a colleague's features who shares some traits with parent1 in a twisted/ugly way)

-Also we sometimes go blind for a few moments, pressure/numbness in head and coathanger ache in our neck, just like in low blood pressure on moving (=orthostatic hypotension), only GP keeps insisting we don't have that issue.. so I guess it's psychological too
-Sometimes ears don't work briefly, like temporarily being deaf (similar to but not quite like when your ears POP!)
-Fluctuation in how loud we hear things around us, sometimes it's like everybody is screaming, othertimes people can scream and it's like a whisper

So many awkward GP visits

This was a really helpful thread and glad to know I'm not the only one. It feels weird to try and describe to psych. Tingling in sinus area of face, sensation that brain is splitting and eyes being pulled apart, pressure, dizzy, shadowing and or feeling loss of sight, colors sometimes fade and create a kaliedscope Images which causes pain and numbing, sounds go in and out, zone and trance continuously during this time, also a feeling of paralysis or total dead weight. I continue to be amazed at how much we have in common. Things that I thought were just me or I'm being over sensitive or insecure only to find out that it is real.

I cant express how grateful i am in finding your thread. I have numb head and feeling vertigo. Did have temperature at A & E and was given antibiotics. When I'm stuk in physical symptoms, I go into denial of dissociative disorder. Eight weeks ago I was cleaning ( I am deconditioned - have ME/FIBRO ) and pushed myself. I also have another condition that causes autonomic problems so there's always distrusting parts. Anyway when i was cleaning, my head went numb from eye down to cheek had to lay down irregular heart beat. My new psychs take is that a part was intervening and slowed me down by doing this, it fits,,as there was dual awareness that day but so do other things...maybe. Then I got ear infection. Then I stood up and head neck upper back all went numb. System freaked out . I also experienced urinary urgency. I dont know if it is parts fully. I do have neck weakness too but it could be and its helping to talk here so go figure. Lost my psych of over 20 years recently. Some littles are still attached and I'v went downhill. It's a messy picture...of course. Nice to connect with people who know. and thanks for this post

oops ... also have orthostatc intolerance

Alwayscared, have you been evaluated by a neurologist to rule out transient ischemic attack, stroke, and epileptic seizure? Odds are your symptoms are dissociative (per DSM, conversion symptoms per ICD), but they might not be.

Neurologists are the experts on making the differential diagnosis among these possibilities. In fact, in the UK many people with DID are first diagnosed by neurologists who see them in seizure clinics.

Neurologists even have an obscure name for these weird sensations we experience on or inside our head: cephalic aura. Neurologist Oliver Sacks discusses some of these sensations, among many others, in his popular book Hallucinations.

Wikipedia: Hallucinations (book)

When things don't go as planned on creative projects and we are waylaid by others with more urgent, mundane and pressing matters I notice the appearance of a bitter part and try to reign them back in. When I do so, I notice some electrical sensations. I get a brief sharp electrical impulse felt at points about 5 - 10cm above both my ears - but more sharp on the left. My corneas feel like they are going to invert or pop and there is sudden (uncomfortable) ringing in the left ear. The bridge of my nose beneath my glasses heats up and there is pressure felt across my eyes and in a line just above my brows.

In periods of emotional turmoil (like when we had to make the decision to leave therapy) there is a lot of rapid switching happening and I notice head and eye pressure builds up a lot. But this is not the sort of headache I will take an Aspirin for.

Lost my psych of over 20 years recently. Some littles are still attached and I'v went downhill. It's a messy picture...of course.

Alwayscared, I'm sorry you lost your therapist. That must still be very painful for everyone. I hope you soon cross paths with someone who can help fill that void if you have not already.