I've been taking doxy for about a month now and have noticed that my migraines and terrible head pressure has returned. To be honest I don't think these are the same migraines I was always complaining about.
I feel this terrible head pressure constantly from the moment I wake up. Then comes in a layer of sharp pains in different locations of my head. Some of the most concerning would be the same excruciating pain I experienced before and after my
brain surgery to remove a a ruptured pituitary cyst. It feels like a sharp metal rod is piercing the top of my head and going straight to through all while the feeling of a knife slicing through my bone half an inch above my eye brow.
Honestly it's quite scary. I get sharp pains in the back of my head, around my temples as well. I get these insane burning sensations that almost feel like burning ice...if that makes any sense.
I've been reading about intracranial hypertension but don't quite understand it. When I have these headaches it just about doubles my brain fog. I feel like I'm in a literal stupor. I have an MRI and my one year follow up with my neurosurgeon so
possibly they'll see something on the MRI? Idk. I'm scared that it's not even the doxy but maybe the bacteria that is in the area where I had surgery? I have no idea.
If anyone has some insight on this, I would really appreciate it!
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I know exactly what you're talking about. When I take minocycline I have periodic suicide headaches. There's no point going into detail about them because they change. Sometimes they feel like they're in my face, sometimes they feel like they're in my brain. Horrible. It's not that nothing helps, it's just that I'm too stupefied to figure out how to fix it.
So what's happening ( according to Dr J article) is that there are tiny areas of infection that are getting blown up. When that happens your brain swells just a little bit. Maybe not even enough to see on an MRI, but enough to both terrify and stupefy.
Normally these last about a day for me and then they go away on their own no matter what I do in the meantime to make it better. A detox bath can help but until the spinal fluid does its job cleaning up the mess there's really nothing to do but find a couple things that bring down the pain and ride it through.
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Just a thought. Do you also have Babesia? On Dr. S's symptom list, it says that Babesia can cause severe headaches. It's also on Buhner's list for Babesia.
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i would get checked for pappaldimia of the eyes and also do you feel like you cant think?go to an eye doc and let them see if they can see your venous pulsations..if not suspect intercranial pressure...
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