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Q: Extreme Pressure On Right Side, Dizziness, And Temple Pain
asked by: backhome22 on September 18th, 2006
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For around a week now, I have had extreme pressure on the whole right side of my head. It started with a slight cold and a pounding headache on the r. Side. It feels like my head is going to explode. It's not really pain, just horrible pressure ranging from the top right to the ears. The pain comes in the form of very localized small areas in the right temple, not super painful most of the time, just like getting poked with a pin. Sometimes the top right of my head will hurt with a more dull or burning pain. Other intermittent symptoms include numbness on right side of face, cracking or snapping sounds coming from the temple (not while moving my jaw like tmj), and pressure/pain behind the right eye and inside the right ear. I did go to the er one night and the Dr. Gave me antibiotics for fluid in my ear or sinus infection. I am going on the 4th day of taking it w/ some improvement in pressure/dizziness but not in temple pain. I am not sure I was diagnosed correctly, and I would like other people's opinions on what they think this is.

By the way i'm 21/female/no smoking, drugs or drinking/otherwise general good health. Something that may or may not be of any significance is I moved from mn (70 degrees/dry air) to fl(90 degrees and tropical humidity) just a few days before this began.
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Grizzly7
replied on May 24th, 2007
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I suffer the same pressure in a right temple for about 6 months. It started a long time ago when i first got my panic attacks. I've been treated with remeron and lorazepam after many months of suffering and feeling extremely anxiety related to stress at work lack of sleep and studying together. At that time i changed my lifestyle, my diet and added vitamins intake. As the same time i started experience difficulty with my breathing through a nose, approximately end of december. In about 2 months it's grown to a big trouble, the second big trouble that i live in canada and finding a good ENT is a challenge and long waiting list, in addition the doctor i attended did septoplasty and it didnt help, he didnt fix my spetum. In a present time i experience extreme pressure in my right temple with difficulty to breath through a right nostril, i realized that it's all related to sinusitis but here in canada it took a long time to discover it, my family did CT scan and told me that. As well i have a deviated spetum(my nose was broken one year ago), which wasn't fixed during septoplasty. And as i'm saying it causes problems. When i'm not tired and sleep well, i almost don't feel a pressure until i need to do tasks, especially it hurts at work. I have an appointment with good ENT in Toronto on 11,June(3 months waiting) and i bet he will help me out. Things which help to beat anxiety include remeron(mirtazapine), vitamins, tons of vit C, some antibiotics(amoxicilin) and vitamins and minerals under label Life.

So i think you might have a same problem and should pay an attention at your sinus, may be your nose was damaged long time ago. It can lead to very bad feelings, i had couple times emergency when i felt pressured too much and wasnt able to breath and felt apathy. As well i still not sure in my opinion, all i can add i had MRI last october and it didn't show anything but a little something(they said it is a little swelling or something) on a right temple and send me home(by neuropatologist). I'm still worrying and going to repeat MRI. If anyone ever had similar problems, don't pass this topic please.
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matteric
replied on July 20th, 2007
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Behind Right Temple Pain
can anyone offer some advice, I have been having alot of ear popping which I beliee is due to where I have re located. I have just finished taking antibioitic for a sinus infection, and today I woke up with the pain behind the right temple, I wonder what this could be, I do suffer from migraines but have never had one on this side. Do you think it is just another form of a migraine?? any advice would help.
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ashley1995
replied on February 22nd, 2009
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rigth temporal pain
i've had right temporal pain and pressure for a month now. i've had a scan, nothing found and I am on antibiotics, but everytime I wake up in the am, they pounding starts.
Sometimes it stops for hours, then it is back. I don't think the antibiotics are working. What to do??
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janks123456
replied on March 30th, 2009
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headache with right temple pain
My son is 18 and started having headaches with a swelling on the right side temple. his dr. sent us directly to the johns hopkins pediatric emergency room where we stayed for 12 hours. Everything came up inconclusive. that was 8 mos. ago. last night his headache was horrible and the right temple was swelled out. any suggestions. if johns hopkins is inconclusive, where do we go next.
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