What Brain Issues Cause Pressure In Head?

Posted on Wed, 14 May 2014

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Wed, 14 May 2014 Answered on

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Question : What brain issues could be a reason for pressure in the head. When I lay down the pressure follows the side I lay on, if I'm laying on my right sight the pressure will be there almost like water pressing down. If I move sides it follows to the other side. Back of the head ex. It's been going on for almost two months and started out of the blue. My ideas what this could be.

Answered by Dr. Sweta Singla (3 hours later)

Brief Answer:
It could be simple stress and muscle spasm

Detailed Answer:
Whenever the pressure in the brain increases it does not shift, rather it exerts a holocranial pressure on the skull bone leading to holocranial headaches. What you are perceiving as the pressure shifts might be muscle that might be into spasms and every time you change side you perceive the spasm on that side. What may be the cause? Excessive physical or psychological stress might be causing this...

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad

Follow up: Dr. Sweta Singla (7 hours later)

Is it strange that they are every night when I lay down for the past few months, the never let up. If it was a part of my non Hodgkin's lymphoma would I be able to actually feel it like this? I'm worried it is my cancer that spread to the brain, mauve cns lymphoma now? Or that they've been constant for 2 months every night not going away?

Answered by Dr. Sweta Singla (5 days later)

Brief Answer:
it is muscke spasm .

Detailed Answer:
So as we discussed before it is possibly only muscle spasm and not pressure in the brain.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj