Headache, dizziness - going crazy here!

[tupperlake]

I am desperately looking for opinions while I find a doctor that actually listens to me. For nearly six months now I've had headaches almost everyday. They typically start out before lunch and get worse as the day progresses. They're located on the side of my temples, but start out in the back of my neck. I take over the counter pain medicine; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I try not to take it too often to get rebound headaches.

With these headaches I get extreme dizziness, sometimes during the headache or before it. It get so bad that if I'm in a store or out somewhere, I have to leave and sit down. Everything starts seeming to move around and it feels like the ground is moving. I get nausea from time to time. When I get this dizziness I also get light headed.

On top of these, I feel like there is a something on the right side of my neck near my throat. I don't actually feel a bump, it is just this sensation that something is there. I also have sinus congestion but doctors have told me I don't have a sinus infection.

Any ideas on what it could be? I used to get headaches a few times a day, but this is driving me nuts. It came on suddenly and has continued on ever since. It's taking apart my life. It's hard to concentrate at work, get out of bed, and go out anywhere. I am desperate for answers.

[UnsureMS]

I am not a doctor. But have you looked into cluster headaches, or maybe it's allergies. I wish I had more help for you. What kind of pain killers do you take?

My nuero told me to try Advil gel caps when I first feel it coming on. I also would say lay off the caffeine. At least this was the advice I got from my nuero. I was having severe headaches, and vertigo. I will be praying for you. May god be with you,

Kimberly

[panda2526]

So, I hate to be a broken record about this, but I have and my husband has all the symptoms you stated about, and we both found out just recently he has genetic or hereditary hemochromatosis, and I am also iron loading. I have not been diagnosed as I just got the test results back and need to dig further, but he has been diagnosed.

Everything you describe is everything the both of us have struggled with for many years. I am 42, he is 57. Usually men find out sooner than women, women if early in life are diagnosed they have a good dr tuned in to early warning signs of iron overload, or come across it by accident due to severe iron loading and obvious symptoms or damage.

Excess iron overload is responsible for liver, heart, brain, digestion, pancreas and gallbladder issues, among hormonal and thyroid. I have the exact same issue as you with the sinus issues, congestion, headaches from as long as I can remember to varying degree, heart palpitations and irregular heartbeat, neurological problems, vision deterioration, fatigue, joint pain in hands and hips, knees...and I feel like there is something stuck in my throat, and sometimes painful, like a bone or swollen gland. Drs have scoped me, tested me, groped me, all to no avail, until recently and my husband's diagnosis and consequent research gave me goosebumps comparing my own issues with his, and my family history of death from liver disease and liver cancer, and diabetes related cirrhosis, bad veins on legs, eruptions and lesions on shins and other parts opf body rashes and lesions and patches, dry skin, rosacea, psoriasis, hair falling out, eyebrows falling off, hair falling off limbs, toenail and finger nail ridges, splitting fingernails, peeling, believe me, the list is endless.

Yes, I know, these symptoms all relate to many other problems and conditions we all know and (love) to hate, but if you look into the research you will cry as I did when you realize the data and evidence of the damage done from iron overload. Our bodies need so little of it, and we are feeding on everything in our diet fortified and enriched, and we are getting too much. Once we reach the limit of about 4g of iron in our bodies we get iron overload impairments and diseases, excess iron unbound in our bodies becomes attached to free radicals and then we have higher cancer risks. Cancer cells need iron to thrive. Iron rich environment is disaster. Chemotherapy patients do not respond well to treatment if they have elevated iron. Need to get the iron out before chemo truly effective and responsive. 88% of breast cancer patients have elevated iron. Cancerous breasts


I can answer more questions specifically, or can give some suggestions on where to look nd questions to ask. I have spent hundreds of hours researching and have been like a sponge. So much to learn.

Take care...