Headaches still happening...I just don't get it.

I have been having headaches every day for a few months. Several times, every day. It is just hard to believe that I'm healthy when I have been having headaches this frequently. Fortunately, they are always brief - 1-3 seconds. Usually the pain is sharp, sometimes dull, sometimes burning...it's pretty freaky to have them so often (usually 3-5 times a day, every day). I had one good day where I didn't have any headaches.

I thought they might have been from smoking cigarettes, which I quit about 10 days ago and am confident that I'll keep going. I've been using nicotine gum once in a while. I thought the cigarettes might have been contributing or causing the headaches, which was a major reason I quit, but no, of course not. Nothing I do makes these damn headaches go away.

I just hate having physical symptoms, of any kind. Granted, my headaches are mild in terms of intensity, but they happen so many times every day. I'd do anything just to find assurance that I'm normal and healthy. I had a CT scan, MRI, and EEG and they all showed that I'm normal apparently. That does assure me a little bit, but what would actually reassure me completely is if THESE F***ING SYMPTOMS WENT AWAY. I also get a popping sound in my ears when I yawn or swallow. My heartbeat also is quite up and down. Sometimes it's very faint and I can barely feel it, and at other times it's quite rapid. One time yesterday my heartbeat suddenly pounded very hard for 2-3 beats or so and then went away. It was pretty strange and unnerving. I also get floaters in my vision quite frequently.

I've quit smoking, I drink a lot of water, and I eat correctly. I do need to start exercising more often (I am out of shape). But still, I've worked hard enough to make my headaches go away AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T.

I worry about my health, and dying, a lot. I used to think I was crazy but for the most part I got over that. I used to diagnose myself a lot. I'm starting to hate this. I worried about my health enough in the first place, as I had a panic attack at 16 years old and thought I had a brain tumor, for basically no reason. I didn't have physical symptoms back then, and now I do. That's just great, a guy who worries about his health/dying gets these headaches and all this other BS. I really didn't need that.

This post is starting to get long but I'm just trying to include any important details. I am sorry if I sound frustrated or whatever might upset someone.

There are probably hundreds of different reasons you could be getting frequent headaches. From your diet to your hair to your stress, I mean the list is just endless.

Your best bet is to talk to your doctor

Before I was diagnosed with GAD I would get headaches constantly, I mean EVERYDAY it was horrible ... did a CT scan and it came back normal.

Anxiety caused all my headaches/stress too.

I wounder if there is a link between the floaters and the headaches.

I think stress could be a big factor....i have the same issues with the headaches and floaters (like seeing through a scratched up pine of glass that move's even while focused on an object)

Tell me Kahnen....by any chance dose your eye ever hurt juring one of these headaches?.

I'm going in for a CAT and MRI , hopefully they will find out why I am getting them and nightmears. I think they are more tension headaches but never know, better safe than sorry.

The last CAT I had, I had swollen frontals and over active temporal lobes. That was 9 years ago.

I truely think the anxiety/stress/tension is a factor for me. But will soon know for sure.

maybe I'll get a brain transplant. lol.

Jamie -

The floaters are constant and most prominent when I look at a blue sky. I can't look at a blue sky without seeing them all over the place. Sometimes they will travel if I move my eyes. I have often wondered about this link, if there is one, as well. I am not certain why I have these symptoms and yet the CT scan, MRI and EEG found nothing. Could anxiety cause floaters (I know it can cause headaches)? I also get them looking at computer screens occasionally - in fact that happened about a couple minutes ago. My vision is 20/10 or perhaps 20/5, I can read perfectly up close and I can read considerably well from far away.

Pardon me if I got a little...angry in my initial post. I was just frustrated and I'm sure I was anxious at the time. I guess I felt I needed to speak my mind. But I try not to feel too sorry for myself. I know other people have far more severe symptoms. I'm sure I'll live a long life, but the thing that worries me the most is that I didn't have headaches very often for most of my life, then something like 8 months ago or so they started happening every day. I did start questioning my health around that time (I go through such times) and got stressed out. I did have the exact same headaches every so often on rare occasion a few years ago.

The pain, which is intense but brief, happens in or around the eyes from time to time. The most frequent spots are around the temple, around the scalp, the sides around the scalp, and the eyes/ears. I also have had tinnitus for years (it freaked me out when I first noticed it 5 years ago, but I've since ignored it) and also, a few months ago I started noticing a different sound in my ears. It isn't quite like tinnitus. It kind of reminds me of being dizzy. Dizziness also happened a few times in the morning, when my symptoms are sometimes the worst (and sometimes they build up throughout the day, such as if I start worrying).

My floaters are also perminent. My sight has been getting blurry over the last year or so. I also never got headaches but then they started, sever but brief. Always either left scalp, right scalp, or right temple. I started getting some pain that felt like it was my eye, but it was probably around the eye...left eye.

I know aniexty causes stress and stress causes floaters. But that's all i know.

Jamie,

Are you sure your vision has been blurring out? I ask this because I thought mine might have been (a psychological manifestation of the floaters I'm sure) but then I realized that this wasn't the case.

kahnen wrote:Jamie,

Are you sure your vision has been blurring out? I ask this because I thought mine might have been (a psychological manifestation of the floaters I'm sure) but then I realized that this wasn't the case.

Yup....i'm positive.

I too get headaches, have floaters contstantly, have tinnitus...Along with other physical symptoms. I convince myself I have a different illness everyday. It's horrible. I get paranoid, have panic attacks frequently.