Thick headed

Hi everyone,
Well, my Mom always used to say I was "thick headed", which is southern speak USA for stubborn. Unfortunately, what I'm going through has nothing to do with stubbornness! Let me explain:
I got a PM on 7/30/12 and I'm still trying to feel good again, nearly 6 months later.
I was doing OK, working out at the gym, climbing the rock wall and road biking a bit. Slowly but surely improving.
On Saturday morning I was doing some yoga at home. I think I stretched my shoulders back a little too far in one posture because the PM site was sore.....still is. Ever since then, I've had this thick headed feeling. It's as though I have a vibrating steel ball in my brain. Pretty awful. I went to the ER on Monday and was released. Everything looked normal. I have called my EP twice and still no call back. I guess I'm on their "pest list" now. My thought is that the ER doc could have looked at my chest X-ray and not seen a lead that had moved or something. I believe only an EP can really know for sure. Has anyone had this experience? Could it be that I moved a lead with the stretching and the ER doc didn't notice it? Can a moved lead cause this head thing? Or......what do you think could cause this?? Carol

PS- anyone live near Vegas? I could use a recommendation for another EP.

2 Comments

Ear drum pressure

by Matabar - 2013-01-11 11:01:34

Casper,
Thanks for your response! I finally heard from my doctor's nurse's assistant, which shows you where I am on the "important" patient list by now! She said it wasn't a heart issue and to contact my primary care doc. I tried to get an appointment with him today and he has nothing available until 3/12. Unbelievable that I would be expected to walk around with my head feeling like its going to burst for 2 months!
Anyway, I went to Urgent Care and the doc said I have an enormous amount of pressure behind my ear drums. He prescribed amoxicillin, Claratin and nasal spray and sent me home. It's better already. I'm so thankful that its a treatable condition! Doc says this can be brought on by stress and I've had plenty of stress lately as I'm sure a lot of us on this site can understand.
I guess my twisting, turning yoga wasn't the culprit!
Once again thank you for responding and I wish you well!
Bikram

Yikes

by Casper - 2013-01-11 12:01:13

Hi Bikram,

I know how much you love your yoga, I hope your EP's office calls you back soon, maybe you just hyperextended yourself last Saturday.

Please keep us posted, I know how moms are, she probably just overly worried you'll be hurting yourself, with all the twists and turns you do during your yoga routine.

Let us know.

Casper

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