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What Causes Headache While Bending Down Causing Sleeplessness With Pain In Eyes And Cheek?
Question: ive been having a strange kind of headache problem. it manifests when I bend down or put force on my head. its always on the left side. I feel pain behind my eye and even in teeth and cheek. mainly the pain forms when I bend down and is always there. its 4 in the morning and I am unable to sleep due to feeling extremely scared. im a very paranoid person and the pain isnt much at the moment but I feel light headed and scared it might escalate and I might die. im staying with relatives I cant tell to take me to ER. ive messaged 4 doctors from ur website in the last week for similar problems and they have all said im stressed. but im very scared right now please help. its not an emergency is it? ive been awake for 40 minutes feeling scared
Brief Answer:
Provide more clinical details regarding headache
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have gone through your question and understand your concerns.
You need to provide more details about headache.
1) character - throbbing, Bursting
2) timing - day, night, all times
3) Frequency - daily, episodic
4) Associated features - nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light or sound.
5)Any nasal discharges
6) Redness of eyes, tearing from eyes, blurring of vision, nasal stuffiness
7) Aggravating factors like missing meal and sleep problems
8) Releiving factors like pain killers
9) stress, anxiety
10) Duration of headache
11) Any seizure, loss of consciousness, visual loss
12) Any other disease or treatment
Provide these details for analysis.
Hope you found the answer helpful.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Neurologist
Provide more clinical details regarding headache
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have gone through your question and understand your concerns.
You need to provide more details about headache.
1) character - throbbing, Bursting
2) timing - day, night, all times
3) Frequency - daily, episodic
4) Associated features - nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light or sound.
5)Any nasal discharges
6) Redness of eyes, tearing from eyes, blurring of vision, nasal stuffiness
7) Aggravating factors like missing meal and sleep problems
8) Releiving factors like pain killers
9) stress, anxiety
10) Duration of headache
11) Any seizure, loss of consciousness, visual loss
12) Any other disease or treatment
Provide these details for analysis.
Hope you found the answer helpful.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Neurologist
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Sonia Raina
1) It is generally a sort of burning and a bit of throbbing feeling I get when I bend down, put pressure on head, or lean over.
2) It's there at all times, like right now I'm writing this it isn't hurting because my head is at a fixed position. If I turn it sideways it isn't there. But if I lean my head down I feel the pain from the upper left side of my head to the eye and and face.
3)Daily
4)Yes I feel extremely sensitive to light at various points of day. No nausea or vomiting or sound problem.
5)No nasal discharges but the pain sometimes is felt on the left side of my nose.
6)Yes it started a month ago due to eye probllem and even now I'd say its mainly because of that. My left eye used to be in intense pain, throbbing feeling that felt like it would burst. Now the pain has reduced greatly in the sense tat the throbbing feeling only comes around for a few seconds when I'm feeling nervous or if the pain around the face. Vision is blurred in left eye but only from yestrday. Eyes sometimes feel really cold and watery but not always.
7)Yes I have been having sleeping problems. Not so much due to pain but I feel really scared it will come and there is sometimes some pain as well. Last night I was up due to feeling a sort of dull feeling at the head, I was up ll night in fear although the pain was minimal and only when I turned head downwards.
8)I have not taken much painkillers. around 3 overall till now. The pain was very intense 2 days ago on the head and I took Panadol Extra and sat in a dark room. The pain was there for an hour before dissipating.
9)I'm a very scared personlity person and have not been able to think of anything other than this pain since it started a month ago. My life is also under stress in that I have to move from my birth country to my native one where I don't want to move, I'm 22 and with no job so that also hangs over my head, I also have not completed my studies so tht pressure is also there. I was depressed over all this for a while but since the pain started I have only mainly thought about my health.
10)All the time
11)No seizure, vision loss or unconsciousness but I get light headed and am not able to focus.
12)No disease, I went opthamologist 3 weeks ago who said my eye had some minor inflammation, she gave me medicine and the pain went away for a while but now it has returned but mainly in the left side of head although eye does hurt as well. I am thinking of visiting her today.
Please help me as I am finding it impossible to live my life with worrying about this pain everyday as well as feeling it.
2) It's there at all times, like right now I'm writing this it isn't hurting because my head is at a fixed position. If I turn it sideways it isn't there. But if I lean my head down I feel the pain from the upper left side of my head to the eye and and face.
3)Daily
4)Yes I feel extremely sensitive to light at various points of day. No nausea or vomiting or sound problem.
5)No nasal discharges but the pain sometimes is felt on the left side of my nose.
6)Yes it started a month ago due to eye probllem and even now I'd say its mainly because of that. My left eye used to be in intense pain, throbbing feeling that felt like it would burst. Now the pain has reduced greatly in the sense tat the throbbing feeling only comes around for a few seconds when I'm feeling nervous or if the pain around the face. Vision is blurred in left eye but only from yestrday. Eyes sometimes feel really cold and watery but not always.
7)Yes I have been having sleeping problems. Not so much due to pain but I feel really scared it will come and there is sometimes some pain as well. Last night I was up due to feeling a sort of dull feeling at the head, I was up ll night in fear although the pain was minimal and only when I turned head downwards.
8)I have not taken much painkillers. around 3 overall till now. The pain was very intense 2 days ago on the head and I took Panadol Extra and sat in a dark room. The pain was there for an hour before dissipating.
9)I'm a very scared personlity person and have not been able to think of anything other than this pain since it started a month ago. My life is also under stress in that I have to move from my birth country to my native one where I don't want to move, I'm 22 and with no job so that also hangs over my head, I also have not completed my studies so tht pressure is also there. I was depressed over all this for a while but since the pain started I have only mainly thought about my health.
10)All the time
11)No seizure, vision loss or unconsciousness but I get light headed and am not able to focus.
12)No disease, I went opthamologist 3 weeks ago who said my eye had some minor inflammation, she gave me medicine and the pain went away for a while but now it has returned but mainly in the left side of head although eye does hurt as well. I am thinking of visiting her today.
Please help me as I am finding it impossible to live my life with worrying about this pain everyday as well as feeling it.
Brief Answer:
Take medications as advised and take precautions
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have gone through your question and understand your concerns.
There is possibility of migraine headache with tension.
You need to get evaluated by Ophthalmologist for any eye problems like glaucoma which mimics unilateral headache of migraine.
For headache you can take amitryptiline along with Flunarizine.
Pain killers may be taken when required.
Avoid fasting, meal skipping, chocolate, coffee.
Response may take few weeks.
Hope you found the answer helpful
Regards
Dr Neeraj Kumar
Neurologist
Take medications as advised and take precautions
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have gone through your question and understand your concerns.
There is possibility of migraine headache with tension.
You need to get evaluated by Ophthalmologist for any eye problems like glaucoma which mimics unilateral headache of migraine.
For headache you can take amitryptiline along with Flunarizine.
Pain killers may be taken when required.
Avoid fasting, meal skipping, chocolate, coffee.
Response may take few weeks.
Hope you found the answer helpful
Regards
Dr Neeraj Kumar
Neurologist
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Yogesh D
I visited opthamoligist few hours ago and she said I had absolutely no problems in my eyes. she said to ask neurologist. she also suggested might be migraine. But Dr the pain is pretty unsettling do u have any recommendations to help me cope with it
Brief Answer:
Take treatment of migraine under neurologist guidance
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
It is good that you are not having any eye problems.
For Migraine in my patients I prefer
Tryptomer 10 mg night dose with Sibelium 10 mg once daily
Tab naxdom 500 mg Bd for 5 days with sompraz once before breakfast.
You can have a visit to a neurologist for treatment prescription.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Neurologist
Take treatment of migraine under neurologist guidance
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
It is good that you are not having any eye problems.
For Migraine in my patients I prefer
Tryptomer 10 mg night dose with Sibelium 10 mg once daily
Tab naxdom 500 mg Bd for 5 days with sompraz once before breakfast.
You can have a visit to a neurologist for treatment prescription.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Neurologist
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj
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