The Silent Migrainers
Head heaviness
This tightness can certainly make for confusion. It’s this tightness in the head that the neurologist told me was the ‘migraineous element’. It was certainly having that as opposed to true recognisable migraine that stopped me obtaining any sort of diagnosis and which left me suffering bouts of vestibular attacks without treatment. No doctors recognised it even an ENT consultant told me ‘that’s nothing to do with what you have wrong with you’. I can never recall being asked if I ever suffered headaches with these attacks. Even had I been I am sure I’d have replied in the negative because, stupid as it might now sound, I never associated that ‘head pressure’ with being a headache. A headache to me was pain behind the eyes. The only sort I could recall ever having.