I felt a pop in my head

[Pepperpotty]

Hello,
Last night I had just laid down to go to sleep when I felt something pop in my head. It was so severe that I actually heard it as well as felt it. I laid there waiting for something serious to happen but the only after effect was a warm sensation travelling over my whole body. The pop was on the left side of my head near the top and back. The best way to describe it is like something burst in my brain. (although I'm sure that if it had then I wouldn't be sitting here typing this)
Today I can feel a burning sensation on the inside of my skull in the same place I felt the pop.
I have suffered with daily headaches for several years and have had 2 MRI scans in the last year, both of which came back ok
I have also recently been diagnosed with vestibular dysfunction, which has caused constant dizziness for the past 8 months.
The pop wasn't anywhere near my ear so I don't think the 2 are connected.
Has anyone ever experienced a similar pop before? And does anyone have any idea what this could be.

Thanks,
Emma

[loralai90]

I also experienced the popping sound last March 21 on the back of my nose, maybe in the Eustachian tube area, left side. I cried too much when my dog passed away. Then I got colds from all that crying. Then headache followed on left side of the head and pain on left sinus. I still experience headache on the left side occasionally.

[Notsonewbie]

I had this pop and a warm sensation exactly like you. I also waited for something to happen, but nothing:) went to the doc and was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia. There is a nerve in that area. No one has explained the popping sound though

[rholguin]

This same thing happened to me and also to my son.  I layed down to go to bed when I heard and felt a pop on the left side of my head near the temple area.  I saw a flash in my left eye and I immediately sat up to see if anything was wrong with me.  I was fine.  In the morning when I woke the left side of my head was hot.  Throughout the next few days I could only tell anything had happened when I caughed or sneezed; I could feel an ache pain, like a headache after affect, near my left temple whenever I did caugh or sneeze.

When it happened to my son, he was twelve at the time, he was at school playing soccer.  He said while he was running he felt and heard a pop in the back of his head. In that moment his head felt so heavy that he could hold it up and so he fell down. He went to the nurse but nothing was wrong with him.

This happened back in 2013.  Still don't know what happened to us.  It happened to me that one time.  It happened to my son about three times.

Something else to note, at the time this happened we both also felt extreme neck fatigue. Not sore, not pain just tight and tired.  It was at the back of our neck, where the neck meets the head.  Trying to massage or get comfortable in any way was nearly impossible.  It was the strangest thing.

[JoshB82]

This happens to me often! Most times It's a high pitched frequency that I hear in my brain as I fall asleep. Last night I heard what sounded like a power surge in my head, followed by white speckles of light that filled my close eyed vision. I immediately sat up to find the left side of my brain numb.

Have you found anything about this? Last night I found Exploding Head Syndrome online, but it doesn't talk about numbness our flashes of light.

[JroDuke]

I had the pop 16 years ago and haven’t really had anything again until recently and I woke up with a flash and the top of my head numb. This is the first night I’ve ever researched it.

[Mandi_33]

I've experienced something similar. Was dealing with trauma and insomnia and a nervous breakdown. I was in the car with my boyfriend and we're fighting when I yelled I felt and heard on also top right semi back side of my head a huge pop or snap basically and freaked me the heck out and since I've been passing out from a standing position ill even black out for two seconds if I'm fighting with my boyfriend during a yelling spell lol but ill know I just lost consciousness but will remember sometimes what I'm saying. Sometimes if I pass out from standing I won't remember and even will lose time "hours" I'm so scared but I'm on Medicaid and can't get a doctor to thinks it's unusual for someone to do this that isn't abusing drugs. I even puke often like overheated type puking weird brusing from the inside under my bellybutton...woke up w it. And constipated but then will **** basically water and immediately Wil be constipated again. I always have the feeling of something stuck in my throat the lumps on my tongue are swollen. And seriously many different types of of symptoms headaches dizziness extreme fatigue ankles swell very dry itchy skin nauseous unexplained rashes that come and go heavy feeling in my pelvic area hurts mostly when coughing after sex ,only slightly during. Frequent infections lung and vag bacterial infections filled with yeast infection.shortness of breath lots of chest pain Ugh I hate feeling this way all the time I feel like I've got a few different things going on but how can I get help without    overwhelming the doctor? I've already tried calling and going.in about this but two years no luck finding help. I wish someone could help me I've been so miserableand it effects everything I don't go out I don't move around much at all I'm 33 mother of 5. I've been so sick. But good luck to you. Hope everyone feels better. Bless you.

[Momoffour35]

So sorry you are feeling this way! Hopefully by now you have found some answers. I had a rough few years and still dealing with many similar symptoms. Mine started 12 years ago (I was pregnant with my second) and I was diagnosed with mononucleosis. Symptoms continued to get worse until I had several years of misery (healthwise) after the pregnancy and birth of my fourth child. Still trying to get rid of constant headaches but overall feeling much better. I believe mono has something to do with it and  something called POTTS-postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.

[Bobbygirl23]

Hello, it seems that you may have POTS! I was diagnosed with it a few days ago and never heard of it until i went to urgent care for constant dizziness! Look into it. It’s very rare so many doctors don’t even diagnose you with it because they don’t know! I was lucky to have someone who knew about it.

[Califfe]

I also am interested to know if anyone here actually trys my suggested remedy and gets results. I went to many doctors with this question about my brain pops and they all said that our brains aren't able to feel these sensations and that it must be muscle spasms on the outside of the skull. I've had muscle spasms above my eyebrow before and to me the sensation feels very different to the brain pops. Only one doctor bothered to give me a urine test and she was also the one that later recommended I take the magnesium supplement but it was almost 6 years ago and I can't remember whether her diagnosis was the result of that test.
I have had positive results with magnesium, chlorophyll,increasing my water intake and green foods like baby spinach. The problem also comes back if I neglect to keep taking these for a really long time - like many months later. To be more specific I take one magnesium tablet with my morning coffee. Drink about 1L or more of water throughout my working day. Before bed I take a 15ml shot of straight mixed berry flavoured chlorophyll - because it tastes the best, then rinse and swallow a cup of water because I don't want that stuff staining my teeth and to make sure I'm hydrated before I sleep. The chlorophyll makes you want cringe for the first week or two and for me a 15ml shot thrown down the back of the throat is the easiest way to get it down - the taste isn't unpleasant after so many years of using it even with month long gaps between using it.

I would like to know if anyone gives this a go and whether it helps or just to debunk it - it seems we have a wide range of scenario's here.

Also still consult a doctor regardless of what you read here but it took quite a few doctors before I got to this conclusion of mine.

ALSO!!! Login before you post - I almost had to write all this stuff twice and I don't know how many of you would bother with that.

Good luck