Tinnitus/Scalp Pain/Daily Headaches? Anyone?

Long shot but I started suffering from tinnitus a month ago. I went on steroids for a week. It didn’t really help. Since then I have developed nerve pain on the back of my scalp, as well as daily awful headaches.

Anyone can relate to this??

Thanks for caring

 

I'm not a doctor but I play one on tinnitus talk.

Maybe you have this:

https://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/occipital-neuralgia-symptoms-causes-treatments

 

Not familiar with the scalp pain but the daily headaches are very common when I have head tinnitus. This is the type of tinnitus that you feel in your head rather than in any particular ear. I feel pressure in my head and behind my nose with this sensation of fingers massaging my brain accompanied with dull pain.

 

Thanks for sharing. Went to ENT today and he still thinks it’s a virus that has attacked my nervous system. Also is not surprised with my symptoms as it’s all related. Oh joy. So sorry for your daily headaches. They are awful.

 

A virus can contribute, but no doctor can diagnose without complete medical history including injuries, dental, white blood cell count - CBC with differential, MRIs or CT. Other tests may include immunoglobulins, serum, electrophoresis, tumor neurosis factor, monocytes, mast cell, eosinophils.

I agree with John that occipital fibers or nerves are being pressured. There's many very complex involved studies that also point to a host of other things such as neck muscle tension from injury or incorrect posture. Many muscles of neck including the sternocleidomastoids.

Also having pressure behind the nose could be:

Ethmoid sinusitis more so than sphenoid sinusitis (behind the bridge of the nose) can associate to headaches into scalp, pain between the eyes, eyelid swelling, loss of smell, head tinnitus, occipital nerve pressure, neck injury/neck muscle stress, pain behind nose and pain when touching the sides of the nose. Sphenoid sinusitis (behind the eyes) can cause earaches, neck pain.

 

Thanks for your input. The spinal nerves have settled which is promising. I’ll be having a brain MRI in next few months. The issue with specialists (and I’m married to one, so I do know how they practice) is if your symptoms are not going to kill you, the work up tends to be slow in my experience. I mean really, they just want to rule out instant death and everything else can wait a few months. I’m just hoping that I do not babe some chronic issue as my neuritis is flaring all over my right side.