Heavy Head Pressure, Lightheaded, cold sensations and numbness for over a month!

[Nhtrojan04]

Hi everyone. I had flu-like symptoms back in January. As I was getting over it I developed slight vertigo. It would come and go for a week then disappeared.

Okay fine.

But then in February, I developed ear fullness and facial tension.

That’s when the vertigo came back. And it came back stronger. I eventually developed a heavy head with so much pressure that sometimes it felt like it was going to explode.

It got me lightheaded and sent me to urgent care.

I eventually was given a comprehensive blood panel which came out just fine (except for a tad bit low on Vitamin D). The doctor said I had a middle/inner ear infection.

Now it’s been over a month since these symptoms began.

I still have a heavy head and ear pressure/crackling. (I feel most lightheaded when I lean forward or stand up too quickly) So much pressure that any loud startling sounds gets me dizzy.

But now I have odd sensations in my body. Burning hands when it’s just a tad bit cold outside. Throbbing fingers at random times. And burning feet especially in the morning when it’s coldest. Numbness in feet when I’m laying down.

There seems to be some peripheral neuropathy going on here but I’m not sure why. Can an ear or possible sinus infection cause the nerves in my body to go haywire??

It honestly feels like my blood flow within my nerves don’t know where to go?

Or is this something else? CFS?

I have aches developing in random places in my body + slight shortness of breath. But it’s constantly changing. The only thing that really stays constant is the ear/swollen head pressure along with the burning sensations.

29 year old male

5’7

175 lbs

I was healthy leading up to the new year. Now I’m ill.

Any advice would be amazing!

[Likeabadstorm]

Mine changes up too except constant head pressure and ear pressure fullness with whooshing and faintness feeling dizzy spells etc and I had burning in skin and all and changes up. Wishing you luck for your doctors to figure it out. I’m going on two years and nothing so far except told it may be FND since they can’t find an underlying cause.

[Love_war17 in reply to Likeabadstorm]

What’s FND

[Love_war17]

Everything you literally just explained was sort of me that started in January . Now it just feel like everything is just wrong with me .

I have no developed high blood pressure never had that . I’m 27 year old woman . And I’m just told I have a vitamin D deficiency

I have had several blood panels done and the auto immune disease done to rule out lupus ,Parkinson’s , so that they can rule it as FIBROMYALGIA/CFS .

I don’t know what is going on but I never been sick until this coronavirus stuff started and doctors are so OBLIVIOUS IM GETTING SO IRRITATED

[Nhtrojan04 in reply to Love_war17]

Yeah, doctor suggested a ct scan may show something. So I have one in a couple weeks.

[Love_war17 in reply to Nhtrojan04]

I had a cat scan they found nothing . Everything is linked to anxiety and stress I’ve looked at countless youtube videos I’ve had several blood test smh I think that things like stress is truly the cause of a lot of the symptoms so I have read smh

[Likeabadstorm in reply to Nhtrojan04]

Let us know how the ct scan goes. Wishing you the best.

[Likeabadstorm in reply to Love_war17]

FND is functional neurological disorder.. which these symptoms fall under when they cannot find an organic cause. I was healthy and never experienced anxiety panic or may thing like this either until two yrs ago. Scary. And just constantly changing to with some things. Did they ever do a lumbar puncture or suggest one? My Neuro said it would just make my head pressure worse and he feels it would come back normal. I think he should check it to rule out Csf cerebral spinal fluid leak or ICP intracranial pressure. My BP is fine and sometimes low and same with my heart rate til episodes occurs and it will shoot up. I have to supplement with Vit D and had to with Vit B12 for awhile. But thy said it wasn’t the cause of this. They said stress is just too much and my body had enough of what they said is more likely the culprit. Hard for me to believe it can wreak havoc like this I feel the symptoms is what’s causing my anxiety. I have had MRA of head and neck, mri of brain and entire spine. Blood work as well. EEG to rule out seizures-but I struggle daily right now it’s very hard and I do worry about of being something very serious because it has been debilitating me bad and I was so outgoing and upbeat and was always doing something and now I have to rest and lay flat a lot. Even then symptoms still there. Last three days I pushed myself to walk and ride a bike even fearing I’d pass out or go into an episode and with all the face and head pressure if it’s anxiety and panic and stress related causing all the Neuro symptoms I have to fight to get back to who I once was. I have to say it is the worse thing I have been through and I have been through a lot. Hang in there and I hope they figure it out for you. I have had lunes ruled out, ms ruled out, brain tumor ruled out etc etc but ms I know sometimes will not show and a lumbar puncture is needed just the same for CSF leak or ICP. I suffered with CFS chronic fatigue in my twenties and up til now and back injury but it did not effect me this way. So for myself that did not cause this. I do hope you find answers. Let me know how the CT scan goes.

[Likeabadstorm in reply to Likeabadstorm]

Nevermind I see you had the cat scan and it showed nothing. It was somebody else’s reply that had it sorry.