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Can Allergy/Sinus Cause Constant Head Pressure and Tinnitus?
Background: Retired from the Army in Nov and had a complete physical. Everything was fine except for lower back degenerative disk diease and mild hearing loss. All bloodwork was normal. Took a job in Iraq where I am currently. Arrived in Feb. In Jun, I was sick with extreme fatigue, headaches, and dizziness. Saw a doctor in Jul and was given OTC headache meds. They did bloodwork that came back normal. Since that time I have had daily head pressure and tinnitus. The tinnitus comes and goes and can be really loud and annoying. Visited another doctor in Sep who thought it might be an allergic reaction and was given zyrtec for a month. No change with the head pressure. Saw an ENT in Oct who feels that it just a left-over from whatever made me ill in Jun and thinks it will get better with time. Have had this for 5 months.
NOTE: I am 44 and had never had a headache prior to this. Have never had any TMJ problems. Tinnitus was never a problem. Never noticed any allergies before this. Never had sinus problems. Am in decent health and walk daily for 45 minutes. Thought it might be some sort of reaction to something here in Iraq but do not have typical allergy or sinus symptoms.
Questions: 1) Can allergies or sinus cause the daily head pressure and tinnitus? No pain, just a heavy and tight feeling from my eyebrows, temples to the back of my head. Wake up with it. Only goes away when outside exercising. Constant dust inside and outside this place with pollution. Extreme heat going from AC into 120 degree. Has cooled off now, but symptoms remain.
NOTE: I am 44 and had never had a headache prior to this. Have never had any TMJ problems. Tinnitus was never a problem. Never noticed any allergies before this. Never had sinus problems. Am in decent health and walk daily for 45 minutes. Thought it might be some sort of reaction to something here in Iraq but do not have typical allergy or sinus symptoms.
Questions: 1) Can allergies or sinus cause the daily head pressure and tinnitus? No pain, just a heavy and tight feeling from my eyebrows, temples to the back of my head. Wake up with it. Only goes away when outside exercising. Constant dust inside and outside this place with pollution. Extreme heat going from AC into 120 degree. Has cooled off now, but symptoms remain.
I have had same symptoms but believe that I have turned the corner.
I read somewhere that headaches or head pressure can have 1000 different causes so it has been very depressing when trying to diagnose the cause of these symptoms
I started having problems in sept 2013. Head pressure, burning eyes, tired, tinnitus. It became chronic and the symptoms were just constant every day. I saw my primary care doctor, had an MRI, ct scan, ENT, eye doctors, mayo clinic. They found nothing. I then went to an allergy clinic 2 months ago just because there was nothing else to check. I didn't think I had allergies. The symptoms didn't sound like allergies. They did the test, I had average to severe reaction to 33 of 35 allergies tested. Doctor said symptoms can clearly be head pressure without the runny nose and itchy throat we all associate with allergies. I have been taking the shots for 6 weeks and my symptoms have slowly calmed down. I would estimate my current head pressure at 20% of what it was 2 years ago. Tinnitis is totally gone. The only classic allergy symptom I had was post nasal drip but I had that all my life. That is totally gone now. Doctor said if you have chronic head pressure, it can totally be caused by allergies. Seems to be true in my case. Hope this might help some of you.
I read somewhere that headaches or head pressure can have 1000 different causes so it has been very depressing when trying to diagnose the cause of these symptoms
I started having problems in sept 2013. Head pressure, burning eyes, tired, tinnitus. It became chronic and the symptoms were just constant every day. I saw my primary care doctor, had an MRI, ct scan, ENT, eye doctors, mayo clinic. They found nothing. I then went to an allergy clinic 2 months ago just because there was nothing else to check. I didn't think I had allergies. The symptoms didn't sound like allergies. They did the test, I had average to severe reaction to 33 of 35 allergies tested. Doctor said symptoms can clearly be head pressure without the runny nose and itchy throat we all associate with allergies. I have been taking the shots for 6 weeks and my symptoms have slowly calmed down. I would estimate my current head pressure at 20% of what it was 2 years ago. Tinnitis is totally gone. The only classic allergy symptom I had was post nasal drip but I had that all my life. That is totally gone now. Doctor said if you have chronic head pressure, it can totally be caused by allergies. Seems to be true in my case. Hope this might help some of you.
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1. Get tested for mercury poisoning from dental work/fish etc. Chelation may be required. Cutler Protocol.
2. Corrrect postural problems in back/neck.
http://www.necksolutions.com/tinnitus.html
3. Yoga and mindfulness meditation helps massively.
4. Low level laser light for tinnitus.
5. Don't let Chiro touch your neck......elevates tinnitus. Instead start with a neck brace to see if this alleviates all symptoms from dizziness, tinnitus and pressure/numbness around and above ear leading into temple and top of head.
Good luck :)
2. Corrrect postural problems in back/neck.
http://www.necksolutions.com/tinnitus.html
3. Yoga and mindfulness meditation helps massively.
4. Low level laser light for tinnitus.
5. Don't let Chiro touch your neck......elevates tinnitus. Instead start with a neck brace to see if this alleviates all symptoms from dizziness, tinnitus and pressure/numbness around and above ear leading into temple and top of head.
Good luck :)
I can relate...I am 31 female...and have anxiety and the brain tumor thoughts are the same for me too....the ent told me i just have to live with it...i have pulsatile tinnitus.... i hear my luod heartbeat in my one ear and it is causing my head to have pressure and headaches...i can't take it and today is a bad day. i feel you.
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2 sweetlimes morning & 2 in the evening for a mnth continuosly. You can take 3 also.
Let me know bow U feel after 1 mnth.
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Hi guys, I'm M/38, and presently experiencing most of what you guys have like constant low tinnitus in both ears (now for more than 2 weeks), non-frequent pain of the following: teeth and jaw sensitivy, mild ear pain/pressure and headache.
Just to share my story, I got sick last July or August 2012 and felt my eyes will pop-out everytime I tried to vow my head forward. Went to a doctor and diagnosed me as having allergic rhinitis. The doc prescribed antibiotic (250mg), decongestant, and Montelukast for allergy and took it for weeks and I got better.
Then just this December 20 2012, I felt I'm having a flu and didn't go to work. Dec 24 just before Christmas, I decided to go a hospital but since it was a holiday here in the country, I was checked by personnel in emergency and told I have a nasal infection. Again, they gave me same antibiotic (500mg this time), and a decongestant. I started taking the medicine on the same day. But on the 26th, I woke and noticed I already have tinnitus. I continued to finished the medication for 1 week. I felt better after completing them but the tinnitus remains.
I've waited til after New Year and last Jan 6, I again decided to go to an ENT for a checkup, I felt frustrated during that session because the doctor only asked me what I am only feeling as of that moment and not hearing any story of how or when it started or history of any infections, etc.. so I told him that I have tinnitus, looked at my ears and saw that my eardrums are both normal. What he did was referred me to go for hearing and imbalance test without giving any medication.
And so I did go to a different and one of expensive hospital in the country for the test (pure tone and another one with speech recog and with some apparatus to insert in my ears), the results are normal. And right after taking the tests, I decided to go to a different ENT doctor on the same hospital for another checkup and result reading. And this time, I got what I expected to see for a doctor, he asked me of any background, listened to my stories, looked in both of my ears, checked my nose and throat, and found nothing wrong. The doctor gave me a prescription of gingko bilova and another vitamin B that should be taken for a week and that I should go back to him when completed. And that's so far the last check-up I had and scheduled to complete the medication til monday morning. Definitely I am going back to that same doctor on monday for a followup check up.
As of this posting, I still have tinnitus and some other like teeth sensitivity and occassional head and neck pain.
Any new suggestion of tests that I should take or things to be done and/or needs to be aware of.
Hope all of us get the treatment we need to get better.
Just to share my story, I got sick last July or August 2012 and felt my eyes will pop-out everytime I tried to vow my head forward. Went to a doctor and diagnosed me as having allergic rhinitis. The doc prescribed antibiotic (250mg), decongestant, and Montelukast for allergy and took it for weeks and I got better.
Then just this December 20 2012, I felt I'm having a flu and didn't go to work. Dec 24 just before Christmas, I decided to go a hospital but since it was a holiday here in the country, I was checked by personnel in emergency and told I have a nasal infection. Again, they gave me same antibiotic (500mg this time), and a decongestant. I started taking the medicine on the same day. But on the 26th, I woke and noticed I already have tinnitus. I continued to finished the medication for 1 week. I felt better after completing them but the tinnitus remains.
I've waited til after New Year and last Jan 6, I again decided to go to an ENT for a checkup, I felt frustrated during that session because the doctor only asked me what I am only feeling as of that moment and not hearing any story of how or when it started or history of any infections, etc.. so I told him that I have tinnitus, looked at my ears and saw that my eardrums are both normal. What he did was referred me to go for hearing and imbalance test without giving any medication.
And so I did go to a different and one of expensive hospital in the country for the test (pure tone and another one with speech recog and with some apparatus to insert in my ears), the results are normal. And right after taking the tests, I decided to go to a different ENT doctor on the same hospital for another checkup and result reading. And this time, I got what I expected to see for a doctor, he asked me of any background, listened to my stories, looked in both of my ears, checked my nose and throat, and found nothing wrong. The doctor gave me a prescription of gingko bilova and another vitamin B that should be taken for a week and that I should go back to him when completed. And that's so far the last check-up I had and scheduled to complete the medication til monday morning. Definitely I am going back to that same doctor on monday for a followup check up.
As of this posting, I still have tinnitus and some other like teeth sensitivity and occassional head and neck pain.
Any new suggestion of tests that I should take or things to be done and/or needs to be aware of.
Hope all of us get the treatment we need to get better.
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