Anyone have this wired pain? Please help!

[juicygirly]

Have posted this on chat and been advised to post on here also as lots of knowledgeable folk about!

I wouldn't say it's unbearable but it's like a stinging/burning pain just behind the top of my ear ... at times it spreads down into my neck or into my head. It is just relentless though and even if I have ibuprofen it seems to take the edge off it but not completely go away

Been to the doctors , he's checked for infection and found nothing. Has given me an ear spray which isn't really doing anything.

I'm waiting to be seen by the ENT rapid appointment clinic on Wednesday morning but until then .. has anyone had this pain and if so what was it ? And what helps. It's making me utterly miserable and with 3 under 9 to look after I really want to just feel better !

Maybe some kind of neuralgia, occipital?

I get head zaps (feels like electricity), and sometimes there's a build up to it that feels just horrible,burning, tingling.

I had a neck injury (car crash) and wS put in one of those next braces and it was at that point I felt something go in my neck - similar pain. That was 3 years ago, and get it every few months - some sort of neuralgia I guess.

On the plus side I use to get this pain through scar tissue on my head (split head open as a child) and since my car accident I've not had it on the scar tissue- I think it's moved!!

I only experienced the pain months after accident. Last a few seconds. I also notice it comes about with tension in my left shoulder (also damaged in accident)

I've seen 3 Beira surgeons and GP and none seem bothered by it. So maybe yours is from a last accident or injury?

Either that or Voldemort is near by and actually I'm from the wizard of world of HP!! ⚡️⚡️

Good luck with your appointment. Let us know how u get on 👍🏻

Orphan 😁 would love to realise that I am in fact not a muggle but magical !

Interesting to read about your experience. I haven't really had any injuries as such so I can't say it's from that.

I've been googling like Mad though and have convinced myself it's some form of cancer. Cue a panic attack in a restaurant with dh and the dc. We had to leave the main and come straight home.
(My mum passed away with cancer last year so it's something that's always on my mind anyway).

Sounds like a touch of health anxiety and head zaps and weird pains are common in anxiety in the head.

Try and stay away from google - google is good for cake recipes only. Dr Google is awful with diagnosing - we'd all be dead by now if it was right! Lol.

I'm sorry you lost your mum to cancer - I suspect the grief and stress from all of that has heightened your awareness to every ache and pain in your body (caused by the stress hormone) and consequently you are putting every pain down to a terrible illness when very likely it is anxiety. It's a bitch and all those pains are very very real but are harmless.

You can't switch that worry off but you can sit with it and keep questioning it;

Ok, if this pain is something bad, then what?......then answer it

Then with that answer assume a new question, then answer it. And continue to do this. It's better than seeking reassurance from a doctor or husband because the reassurance is short term then that ugly bitch makes an appearance again. If you can sit with the anxiety it will heighten then dissipate and heighten and dissipate and eventually your anxiety will drop and then so will your physical symptoms.

By all means, if you are in a lot of pain then go to the quacks for the stronger pain killers but what you have described is very indicative of stress, muscle tension etc. Maybe it's worth mentioning that to your doctor too. A bit of CBT may help or failing that maybe try psychoanalytical therapy (will help with the loss of your mum).

Keep your chin up. You are not alone xx

Thank you so much orphanblack for your last post.

Yes it's definitely anxiety .. I saw my Gp a few months ago , convinced that my headaches were a brain tumour. (He knows about my mum). He referred me for an mri scan within a week, even if it's just to resolve the anxiety he said. But yes.. reassurance is short term like you said.
I'm finding it very difficult to believe it's just anxiety pains though; the pain is very distinctive and behind my ear and the gland on the side of face under my ear feels quite tender and google told me it's a blocked lymph node ... which led on to pages of lymphoma ... 😖 I realise I sound mega paranoid and a bit crazy but I keep getting intrusive thoughts of my girls growing up without me, or with a step mum, imagining them as adults, missing seeing my grandchildren being born. The what then questions will drive me mad.
Mum missed seeing dd3 by 3 weeks. It will haunt me forever how the last time I went to see her , days before she passed, and she reached out to hold the baby.

Anyway! I need to stay away from google that's for sure!