Daily Head Pressure and Ear Ringing

[Glenville86]

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.  I have a slight clicking in my jaw and he thinks TMJ might be a factor but I have no jaw pain.  I sit in front of a computer at least 10 hours a day.

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) What can be the cause of the daily head pressure?  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.  2) What can cause the tinnitus?

[John_Madison CT]

Carol:  OK, I'll give you my story.   My wife was "diagnosed" by a "Lyme literate Doctor" with having Lyme Disease.  This Doc is considered "out there" by the mainstream doctors in our area, but she convinced us that all the blood tests, no tick found, no circular rash all meant NOTHING.  She claimed the Lyme was there by finding a few symptoms of that long list you post all the time.

         This LLD was sure of her diagnosis and the meds began.  Heavy antibiotics for weeks.  My wife was getting worse.  The LLD said, "getting worse" is normal, and continued on the path of more antibiotics.   We would force appointments with the Doc because my wife was in a tailspin.

         I took the bull by the horns and paid out of my own pocket to go to a regular "non-LLD" that is respected in our community.   He looked at all of her records, gave her a physical, and simply said, "she does not have Lyme" and she is feeling poorly because she is being medicated too strongly and for too long by these Antibiotics.

         We decided to go with this opinion.  By wife got better in days.   He blamed her initial symptoms of "head fog", dizziness and a few other symptoms to anxiety.  He was absolutely right !

         I know when I joined this forum regarding my viral meningitis, someone posted that I probably had Lyme, not viral meningitis  It confused the **** out of me, scared me to death, and had my mind racing for days.

         The mainstream medical community does not agree with most of those LLD'ers.  They blame Lyme as the cause of way too many things, some which are as simple as anxiety and depression.  

         I know several woman who believed they had Lyme, despite all the negative test, and personally believe the problem is psycological.