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Hi, so I had no other transportation and I just walked from work to the gym which turned out to be an hour long walk which I wouldn't have walked if I knew how long it was going to be. Anyway, it was a pretty tough walk with lots of hills and it was also hot out today regarding the weather. By the time I was almost to the gym I started getting a headache and once I got to the gym I only exercised for about 20 mins considering I just walked an hour but my headache hadn't gone away at all during my workout and I just got home from the gym now and it still hasn't gone away. I guess I'm just a little concerned because I've never had a headache during my workouts before and I hardly ever get them at all but walking for an hour in this hot sun is out of the ordinary for me too so I'm not sure if that's what caused it or not. Since I'm trying to work on my health anxiety I'm trying my best not to turn to Google and convince myself something is seriously wrong with me lol

Hey guys. I've been dealing with something for several weeks now that is starting to get to me. I was at work one evening and noticed a kind of "pressure" sensation on the side of my head. It runs from just above my left temple straight towards the top of my scalp, but only makes it about halfway up. It usually doesn't hurt, it's just kind of "there". Like, it almost feels like something is tugging at the skin on the top of my head. It does hurt sometimes, but it's never anything extreme. It also seems to come and go, but gets particularly worse if I'm 1) anxious, or 2) at work. And I should also add that I have NO other symptoms whatsoever. I actually feel pretty good, other than this. I've been to see a doctor, who made me do quite a few tests to see if she noticed anything neurological. She said I passed with flying colors, but of course, she couldn't rule out anything brain-related unless she did an MRI and all that jazz. What she did tell me to do, however, is avoid wearing any sort of over-the-head headphones for 2 to 4 weeks (I work in an office where I use a headset to take calls, and I spend (before this, anyways) a lot of time playing video games at home with a wireless headset). She thinks that the constant pressure on my head could be affecting the muscles around my scalp. I'm at 2 weeks now, and I've noticed no real decrease in symptoms. Has anyone dealt with something like this before? I really don't want to have to go through an MRI if I don't have to, but I'm really starting to get worried that this could be something more sinister than just a muscle thing.

I've always gotten canker sores periodically for as long as I can remember, usually along my bottom gum lines and never any other symptoms beside local pain. Woke up Tuesday with one on my soft palate (behind wisdom teeth, not quite back of throat), never had gotten one that far back before, but I also have headache, tender neck, & upper body stiffness to go along with this, not to mention swelling around the sore and painful swallowing. I read some extreme symptoms like fever & diarrhea can accompany canker sores, but I am wondering how some canker sore spells can feel much worse than others? I haven't been sick or had one of these sores in a while. HPV is always a dormant fear of mine since having a 4 yr period of bad pap smears and procedures to remove cervical dysplasia. Been clear of dysplasia and HPV for over a year, so trying not to let my head go there.

Hi everybody, i want to share my concerns.It all started one year ago when i suffered a major injury to my neck. I fractured my thyroid cartilage which is a pretty rare condition. 3 CT scans were needed in order to prove that. The doctors couldn't figure out almost, so that was the first time where i lost trust for them.Since then i'm always worried about my health and started looking things up on the internet to figure out what problems could i have. My phisiotherapist recognized that i have a mild scoliosis at my thoracic spine, a more severe scoliosis at my cervical spine and he sent me to the chiropractor to adjust it.Before i went to the chiropractor 2 days before i started to look up things on the internet that are related to spinal adjustments. I've found out some pretty scary things about that which are : stroke, damaged nerves and damaged discs.When i went to the chiropractor i remember that i was pretty much terrified of what could happen if he adjusts my spine. The adjustment went "well" so to speak, in that moment i've felt better my posture was better, my neck was longer.However at my way home 4 hours later after the adjustment was made, my neck started to become really stiff, and on the back of my neck, on the left side it started to burn really hard, and i started to panic , like i thought that im going to have a stroke.Since then i had many symptoms: shortness of breath, dizziness, blurred vision, my ears are ringing, sometimes i loose my balance ,some stomach turbulence, brain fog, and i have headaches ( mostly on the left and right side.)I asked my chiropractor about stroke and he told me that if i was to have a stroke i would got it immeadiately after the adjustment was made, or in that day. I asked my phyisiotherapist and he told me that when the adjustments were made it shocked my whole body and thats why i have these symptoms. I recognize that i'm pretty stressed most of the time mostly after the chiropractic visit.Sometimes i fell asleep and i woke up in the middle of the night, an im tired during the day.It's been already one week after the chiropractic adjustmetns and i still feel dizzy, with a lack of balance, my left ear is still ringing, i can't properly think, i have sometimes shortness of breath, and i have sometimes headaches on the left side and the right side of my head.I researched many things and the one thing that stuck with me besides after neck adjustments is the danger of stroke, and restricted arteries which causes blood insufficiency. I have some questions for you guys because im really confused right now. Am i in danger of getting a stroke? It's been already 1 week after the neck adjustments. How fast a stroke develops? Could it be long ? i mean weeks after the adjustments?Could it be that my arteries got restricted and i get smaller quantity of blood to my brain? Are these symptoms related more to anxiety or more related to chiropractic? After one week i still feel dizzy, unbalanced, blurred vision, brain fog, headache, ear ringing, stomach turbulance.. What should i do , think ? Pls help me out, im feeling hopeless right now..

I've been doing good with my anxiety, I actually had a whole week without having any, but that ended today. I was with my cousin and she looked something up on google and she started reading me symptoms of having a heart problem and I immediatly started having anxiety again. I started yelling at her to stop and that I don't want to hear it and she just kept going. I asked her why she was reading that to me when she knows I get anxiety about that stuff and all she said was "your fine, you don't have a heart problem" and I was like still just stop and so finally she did, but I still had anxiety. I hung out with her for a couple more hours and I ended up getting distracted so the anxiety thankfully didn't last long. But now it's coming back again and I'm feeling light headed/dizzy, and I'm mad because I was on such a good streak and then this has to happen and I know I'm just going to go back to having anxiety every night. I will say the symptoms aren't as bad as they have been, but my head feels so weird and I know I can't sleep with it feeling like this. I can feel a headache coming on and also I feel kind of warm, like a stuffy sweaty feeling even though it's only 10 degrees where I live. Is this normal for anxiety? It's almost like I feel suffocated in my clothes and just my room in general.