Headaches and feeling like I'm in a fog/underwater when I hear loud noises.

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Just to preempt any "helpful" comments asking why I don't just see my GP instead of consulting the internet, I have diagnosed OCD and with it health anxiety. I try to avoid going to the GP everytime I decide I'm dying so that I'm still taken seriously if there is a need and because I don't want to waste anyone's time. So please if you can't be helpful find another thread.

So firstly, I get headaches which I think is reasonably normal, not all the time but maybe a couple times a week. This usually comes with a pain behind one eye. They last a couple hours if I don't take something. They're bad but I don't have to shut myself in a dark room so I guess not migraines.

I also get 30 second stabbing shooting headaches every so often (probably a couple times a week as well). I had it about 4 times yesterday. 2 times while laying in bed in the dark after everyone had gone to sleep.

My three children are primary age and the youngest has just started reception. This is relevant as I think maybe, I've become a bit used to quiet in the day and have found the past couple days quite over whelming. My youngest child had speech issues and hasn't been a big talker in the past. Since starting school, he does not shut up. He will physically turn your head towards him to make sure you are paying suitable attention. He then talks at a very high volume in a high pitch voice.

For about a year, if all three children start talking at me I have this sort of feeling like I'm underwater, the noise gets very loud in my head and I feel woozy. It's painful.

Over the Christmas period this has started almost as soon as my youngest starts talking and seems to be only him. yesterday at the table I kept asking him to be quieter and eventually had to leave Christmas dinner and lie on the couch.

Dh could have his leg hanging off and still not go to the doctor so he isn't useful.

Oh also I sometimes hear a buzzing sound, a bit like a computery noise Not sure if it's all related to some sort of tinnitus?

I'm quite upset about it and as I explained I have a health anxiety that led to me in tears last night thinking I have brain cancer.

When my kids were young, I really wanted noise cancelling headphones. I should have bought some, just for occasional wear. So that's my recommendation.

Are your painkillers addictive? My sister had a lot of headaches but ended up in a vicious cycle of painkiller withdrawal headaches! Paracetamol is fine.

Thanks Isdads, I take paracetamol occasionally but not every time. Probably once or twice a month, only if it's really bad.

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I don’t know about the hearing thing, but I get the eye stabby headaches, it’s stress that causes mine.

Definitely worth a GP visit. It could be tension headaches but it’s worth getting checked out, especially with the auditory disturbances.

I don’t know about the hearing thing, but I get the eye stabby headaches, it’s stress that causes mine.

I hope it is just stress. This year had been particularly hard so it would make sense.

Definitely worth a GP visit. It could be tension headaches but it’s worth getting checked out, especially with the auditory disturbances.

I'll try and get myself checked out. I just feel like I'l be seen as complaining about something vague iyswim. I like good old fashioned obvious symptoms you can see!

Maybe I should bring the 4 year old and get him to shriek around me..

I also have OCD and HA, in all honesty if you've had it for a year it's probably nothing sinister. I also have also had (a phantom) brain tumor this Christmas as well as various cancers of the digestive and respiratory systems, so I know exactly where you are coming from.

Personally I wouldn't do the the gp, they will probably send you for tests that will only make you spiral BUT that is from a HA point of view, obviously I have naff all medical training and cannot assess in any way if your symptoms are worrying or not.

Do you get any help for your MH difficulties?

^I also have OCD and HA, in all honesty if you've had it for a year it's probably nothing sinister. I also have also had (a phantom) brain tumor this Christmas as well as various cancers of the digestive and respiratory systems, so I know exactly where you are coming from.
Personally I wouldn't do the the gp, they will probably send you for tests that will only make you spiral BUT that is from a HA point of view, obviously I have naff all medical training and cannot assess in any way if your symptoms are worrying or not.
Do you get any help for your MH difficulties?^

Phantom Brain cancer.

It's terrible isn't it? I was getting some help this year after waiting for ages on the list for CBT and then had a personal tragedy and my therapist decided I needed to deal with that instead of doing the CBT. So basically I'm fucked and have no one to speak to!

Oh that's crappy. It sounds like you've been left with no support!

Have you read 'The Happiness Trap' by Russ Harris? It's very helpful for HA especially when twinned with OCD (such a fab pairing....).

I was a bit stunned by the conversation at the time and just said "I understand" and walked out early. Went home sobbing. Looking at it now I think it was actually really bad form of her but oh well.

Oh and I haven't read the book, but thank you I'll look in to it.

That really does sound very unhelpful. Was it suggested how you might go about dealing with the other thing? Were you pointed at another service? And have you been given a timeline for resumimg the CBT?

She said she could give me some info on who to get in touch with but it would have been another wait as far as I know. I wasn't really interested in help with the other thing. I was obviously quite upset but it had literally just happened and a couple months after I was fine. I think I'd need to get back on the waiting list for CBT which is like 9 months in my area.

The problem was I had waiting months for it and then this other thing happened about a month into my sessions. So it was just all shitty bad timings really.