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I know the different infections tend to cause headaches in different locations - can anybody tell me what bug causes headaches in which spot? Thanks.
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randibear
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Hmmm good question. I was Bart causes headaches but where I don't know. My headaches are mostly temple, front and top of head also above and around eyes.
I'd feel better if you cut my head off
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I was just thinking about this very topic today too. My temples, top of head, and front of head as well as lower base of skull always feel tight, full, or pressure.
It seems to be the only symptoms remaining that just won't go away and at times it seems a little better, nothing seems to touch it so far.
I've been treating babs for over a year and have been wondering if this is more hemobartonella than anything.
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my head pain is constantly in the back. and for the last couple years, mostly just in the back left "corner" of my head. MAN, do I wish it would stop. No drug seems to make it go away for long.
It feels like I've been hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat recently. I hate it.
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For me.....
Babs causes a frontal H/A....with pressure tightness on the top of my head and/or behind my eyes. Reminds me of a sinus H/A. This is often accompanied by dizziness.
Lyme gives me a headache in my occipital or subocciput region and I will have an increase in the "creaky cracky" noises that happen when I move my head. Lol.
Bart causes me to have more of a sharp, throbbing headache. Reminds me of a tension headache and is on the top of my head.
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For me Bartonella seems to cause the burning, sharp ice pick type headache. This is usually front/top of head and behind eyes. This comes with migraine like symptoms of vertigo, nausea, sensitivity to light and sound and movement.
Babesia is more pressure type headache. Like my head is squeezed in a vice from front to back of the head. My neck always hurts too. Kinda like I have a heavy weight pulling down the back of my head and spine.
Both headaches make me feel equally miserable.
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- Q: Headache Locations?
IDSA ID doctors' offices. -
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I have had most of my head aches above and behind my ears and at the back of my skull, which is where I have been hearing creaks and cracks for years.
I have auditory and vestibular damage, so it is probably all related. The head aches are much better than they used to be before treatment with rifampin and doxy for anaplasmosis and RMSF.
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Has anyone here treated their headache to remission? My main remaining problem is headache: back of my head, temples, throbbing, all around, sometimes dull pressure like headache. it never goes away, always there. during flares up, burning pain, debilitating. ear fullness, tinnitus. I also have spine pain.
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I get headaches in a number of different locations. I have no idea how to relate a cause to each location.
Maybe I am afraid that if I did, I would realize I have even more infections than I know about...
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jellybean:
It feels like I've been hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat recently.
That's EXACTLY how I describe my headaches
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quote:Originally posted by rainbowriver: Has anyone here treated their headache to remission?
. I've had a couple things that put the headaches in remission.
The first thing was a one week course of prednisone to reduce fluid behind the ear drum. Wow! It was wonderful!
It cleared up the ear problem, which I had been fooling with for five months. My continuous headache went away...such a relief.
The body aches and pains pretty much stopped too, but it all came back when I stopped the med. This was before I knew about Lyme. I knew I had migraines and fibromyalgia.
The prednisone reduced inflammation, which cleared up the fluid in the ears and relieved the headaches and body pain.
The second thing that put my headaches into remission was an "open" MRI. I knew that sometimes the magnets in the MRI would reduce people's depression, but I did not realize that they might stop migraines too.
However, the head pressure and pain began returning about five or six weeks later, and within a couple months it was as bad as before. Dang, I was wishing that I could afford to have an MRI every couple months, just to stop the headaches, haha.
When I read about Serrapeptase and other systemic enzymes, I realized this might help me. Systemic enzymes reduce inflammation and hypercoagulation, which will reduce pain and headaches.
After trying a couple of enzymes, I found that Wobenzym worked for me. Yes, it's expensive, but worth it to reduce the pain as much as it has.
Also, fish oil with a high ratio of EPA is helping to reduce my pain and headaches. I can tell these things are good, because when I stop the pain and headaches return.
Since taking prednisone is not a good idea for people with Lyme, and MRI's are too expensive, I suggest that you look into systemic enzymes.
Some LLMD's prescribe systemic enzymes along with antibiotics, as they reduce biofilm and that helps the antibiotics to work better. Taking systemic enzymes along with cat's claw is one protocol to treat Lyme.
Hypercoagulation causes pain and headaches, among other things. A chronic infection like Lyme increases fibrin in the blood, which reduces the oxygen that can get to the cells, causing pain, headaches, digestive problems.
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