u/FroyoOk785

I wake up in morning with:

• head/facial/temple tension, like these muscles are sore/tense
• Sinus pressure (improves after waking)
• dry eyes / blurry (improves after waking)
• Left jaw clicking/tension
• Behind neck/head grinding/clicking or stifness.

For context, i use pc/sit often during day, but many people do. For many years i also have tinnitus, hearing sensitivity, flashes of light, floaters. Those fluctuate, but the tinnitus is influenced by jaw/neck.

More recently i had visual auras, one occured when standing using pc, another when sleeping flat no pillow, another when lying down neck bent, or when washing dishes looking down i guess?

But since these visual auras i also began to see rainbow clouds at night, black dots in vision, temporary and go away. Or visual aura like white dots especially at night when sleeping.

My question is simply can migraines cause these symptoms in morning? or do these sound migraine like or something else?

In this timeline of events:

1. Had headaches/right eye pain for some weeks after taking a penicillin for a skin/rash infection.
2. Then woke up with tinnitus
3. Later developed hearing sensitivity and eye floaters
4. Still had some occasional headaches but after a few months went away
5. Jaw clicking became more apparent, right sided.

Years later gradually got new symptoms, would sum them up as:

• Tinnitus present always, sometimes spikes with posture/neck/jaw.
  • Sometimes had unilateral tinnitus, with muffled hearing on one side, or occipital discomfort/detachment feeling.
  • Sometimes the spikes happened with temporary deafness.
• Hearing sensitivity, fluctuates, sometimes worse when i feel discomfort behind occipital area behind head, or head tension is bad.
• Head/facial/temple/nose/behind neck/head muscle tension, worse in mornings.
• Visual disturbances
  • Eye floaters and visual snow, or fast rapid moving dots (only visible looking at sky)
  • Flashes of light.
  • Visual auras lasting 20-30 minutes followed by a headache / sometimes right eye pain (3 events in 4-5 months)
    • First aura event occurred when standing/using pc for hours.
    • Second aura event occurred on waking after deciding to sleep one night with no pillow, flat on bed.
    • Third aura event occurred within 5 days of second aura, after lying down and bending neck to look at phone.
  • Dark fixed cloud in vision at night [One time occurrence]
  • White text/lines blur blotches [Sometimes I see white text/lines blurring or blotches appearing along the text
  • Unilateral short streak line visible only when blinking
  • Often see black/white/translucent rainbow dots in vision, sometimes in day, but frequent at night or persistent.
  • I often find that its harder to see at night, as in low visibility or blurriness maybe?
• Left sided jaw clicking worse in morning
• Sinus/nose pressure worse in morning
• Dry eyes in morning
• Catching on throat swallow / coarse breathing if i relax throat and sometimes lying down sideways i feel like throat sags. Coarse/snore breathing especially when lying down flat on floor, which is new to me.
• Voice lisp, probably from jaw tension/tmj
• Scalloped tongue always present.
• Throbbing behind head sometimes audible when sleeping/lying down, or after exercise; would sometimes see heartbeat in vision accompanied by throbbing.
• Clenching abs i would feel pressure propagate through jaw/throat sometimes sinus/eye.
• Frequently bloated
• Sometimes excessively yawn
• Right eye pupil bigger than left (mainly visible at night, during day seems about same time, both pupils react fine to light, only noticed 5 months ago)

Background context:

Never injured myself, just use PC a lot, possibly hours without breaks. Don't do a lot of exercise.

Doctor visits:

·         ENT doctor visits -> said everything fine, unclear cause of my issues

·         TMJ doctor visits (No imaging) -> said jaw looks fine

·         Sleep apnea home test -> negative

·         Blood work -> normal

·         Eye exam -> normal

·         Auditory region of brain MRI -> normal (they did this to mainly rule out cancer in hearing region)

·         Hearing test -> normal

·         Physio -> Claimed weak deep neck flexor, said do chin tucks. Did chin tucks, have made or started throat issues, like throat catching/coarse breathing on relaxing of throat.

Possible causes:

·         Cervical instability or EDS or hypermobile neck?

·         UARS / sleep issue (possibly not?)

·         Dysautonomia (possibly not?)

·         TMJ – (I know I have this but unclear if an upstream or downstream issue)

·         Musco-skeletal / posture?

In this timeline of events:

1. Had headaches/right eye pain for some weeks after taking a penicillin for a skin/rash infection.
2. Then woke up with tinnitus
3. Later developed hearing sensitivity and eye floaters
4. Still had some occasional headaches but after a few months went away
5. Jaw clicking became more apparent, right sided.

Years later gradually got new symptoms, would sum them up as:

• Tinnitus present always, sometimes spikes with posture/neck/jaw.
  • Sometimes had unilateral tinnitus, with muffled hearing on one side, or occipital discomfort/detachment feeling.
  • Sometimes the spikes happened with temporary deafness.
• Hearing sensitivity, fluctuates, sometimes worse when i feel discomfort behind occipital area behind head, or head tension is bad.
• Head/facial/temple/nose/behind neck/head muscle tension, worse in mornings.
• Visual disturbances
  • Eye floaters and visual snow, or fast rapid moving dots (only visible looking at sky)
  • Flashes of light.
  • Visual auras lasting 20-30 minutes followed by a headache / sometimes right eye pain (3 events in 4-5 months)
    • First aura event occurred when standing/using pc for hours.
    • Second aura event occurred on waking after deciding to sleep one night with no pillow, flat on bed.
    • Third aura event occurred within 5 days of second aura, after lying down and bending neck to look at phone.
  • Dark fixed cloud in vision at night [One time occurrence]
  • White text/lines blur blotches [Sometimes I see white text/lines blurring or blotches appearing along the text
  • Unilateral short streak line visible only when blinking
  • Often see black/white/translucent rainbow dots in vision, sometimes in day, but frequent at night or persistent.
  • I often find that its harder to see at night, as in low visibility or blurriness maybe?
• Left sided jaw clicking worse in morning
• Sinus/nose pressure worse in morning
• Dry eyes in morning
• Catching on throat swallow / coarse breathing if i relax throat and sometimes lying down sideways i feel like throat sags. Coarse/snore breathing especially when lying down flat on floor, which is new to me.
• Voice lisp, probably from jaw tension/tmj
• Scalloped tongue always present.
• Throbbing behind head sometimes audible when sleeping/lying down, or after exercise; would sometimes see heartbeat in vision accompanied by throbbing.
• Clenching abs i would feel pressure propagate through jaw/throat sometimes sinus/eye.
• Frequently bloated
• Sometimes excessively yawn
• Right eye pupil bigger than left (mainly visible at night, during day seems about same time, both pupils react fine to light, only noticed 5 months ago)

Background context:

Never injured myself, just use PC a lot, possibly hours without breaks. Don't do a lot of exercise.

Doctor visits:

·         ENT doctor visits -> said everything fine, unclear cause of my issues

·         TMJ doctor visits (No imaging) -> said jaw looks fine

·         Sleep apnea home test -> negative

·         Blood work -> normal

·         Eye exam -> normal

·         Auditory region of brain MRI -> normal (they did this to mainly rule out cancer in hearing region)

·         Hearing test -> normal

·         Physio -> Claimed weak deep neck flexor, said do chin tucks. Did chin tucks, have made or started throat issues, like throat catching/coarse breathing on relaxing of throat.

Possible causes:

·         Chiari malformation

·         Cervical instability

·         Intercranial hypertension

·         UARS / sleep issue

·         Dysautonomia

·         TMJ – (I know I have this but unclear if an upstream or downstream issue)

·         Musco-skeletal / posture?

In this timeline of events:

1. Had headaches/right eye pain for some weeks after taking a penicillin for a skin/rash infection.
2. Then woke up with tinnitus
3. Later developed hearing sensitivity and eye floaters
4. Still had some occasional headaches but after a few months went away
5. Jaw clicking became more apparent, right sided.

Years later gradually got new symptoms, would sum them up as:

• Tinnitus present always, sometimes spikes with posture/neck/jaw.
  • Sometimes had unilateral tinnitus, with muffled hearing on one side, or occipital discomfort/detachment feeling.
  • Sometimes the spikes happened with temporary deafness.
• Hearing sensitivity, fluctuates, sometimes worse when i feel discomfort behind occipital area behind head, or head tension is bad.
• Head/facial/temple/nose/behind neck/head muscle tension, worse in mornings.
• Visual disturbances
  • Eye floaters and visual snow, or fast rapid moving dots (only visible looking at sky)
  • Flashes of light.
  • Visual auras lasting 20-30 minutes followed by a headache / sometimes right eye pain (3 events in 4-5 months)
    • First aura event occurred when standing/using pc for hours.
    • Second aura event occurred on waking after deciding to sleep one night with no pillow, flat on bed.
    • Third aura event occurred within 5 days of second aura, after lying down and bending neck to look at phone.
  • Dark fixed cloud in vision at night [One time occurrence]
  • White text/lines blur blotches [Sometimes I see white text/lines blurring or blotches appearing along the text
  • Unilateral short streak line visible only when blinking
  • Often see black/white/translucent rainbow dots in vision, sometimes in day, but frequent at night or persistent.
  • I often find that its harder to see at night, as in low visibility or blurriness maybe?
• Left sided jaw clicking worse in morning
• Sinus/nose pressure worse in morning
• Dry eyes in morning
• Catching on throat swallow / coarse breathing if i relax throat and sometimes lying down sideways i feel like throat sags. Coarse/snore breathing especially when lying down flat on floor, which is new to me.
• Voice lisp, probably from jaw tension/tmj
• Scalloped tongue always present.
• Throbbing behind head sometimes audible when sleeping/lying down, or after exercise; would sometimes see heartbeat in vision accompanied by throbbing.
• Clenching abs i would feel pressure propagate through jaw/throat sometimes sinus/eye.
• Frequently bloated
• Sometimes excessively yawn
• Right eye pupil bigger than left (mainly visible at night, during day seems about same time, both pupils react fine to light, only noticed 5 months ago)

Background context:

Never injured myself, just use PC a lot, possibly hours without breaks. Don't do a lot of exercise.

Doctor visits:

·         ENT doctor visits -> said everything fine, unclear cause of my issues

·         TMJ doctor visits (No imaging) -> said jaw looks fine

·         Sleep apnea home test -> negative

·         Blood work -> normal

·         Eye exam -> normal

·         Auditory region of brain MRI -> normal (they did this to mainly rule out cancer in hearing region)

·         Hearing test -> normal

·         Physio -> Claimed weak deep neck flexor, said do chin tucks. Did chin tucks, have made or started throat issues, like throat catching/coarse breathing on relaxing of throat.

Possible causes:

·         Cervical instability

·         Intercranial hypertension

·         UARS / sleep issue

·         Dysautonomia

·         TMJ – (I know I have this but unclear if an upstream or downstream issue)

·         Musco-skeletal / posture?

In this timeline of events:

1. Had headaches/right eye pain for some weeks after taking a penicillin for a skin/rash infection.
2. Then woke up with tinnitus
3. Later developed hearing sensitivity and eye floaters
4. Still had some occasional headaches but after a few months went away
5. Jaw clicking became more apparent, right sided.

Years later gradually got new symptoms, would sum them up as:

• Tinnitus present always, sometimes spikes with posture/neck/jaw.
  • Sometimes had unilateral tinnitus, with muffled hearing on one side, or occipital discomfort/detachment feeling.
  • Sometimes the spikes happened with temporary deafness.
• Hearing sensitivity, fluctuates, sometimes worse when i feel discomfort behind occipital area behind head, or head tension is bad.
• Head/facial/temple/nose/behind neck/head muscle tension, worse in mornings.
• Visual disturbances
  • Eye floaters and visual snow, or fast rapid moving dots (only visible looking at sky).
  • Flashes of light.
  • Visual auras lasting 20-30 minutes followed by a headache / sometimes right eye pain (3 events in 4-5 months)
    • First aura event occurred when standing/using pc for hours.
    • Second aura event occurred on waking after deciding to sleep one night with no pillow, flat on bed.
    • Third aura event occurred within 5 days of second aura, after lying down and bending neck to look at phone.
  • Dark fixed cloud in vision at night [One time occurrence]
  • White text/lines blur blotches [Sometimes I see white text/lines blurring or blotches appearing along the text
  • Unilateral short streak line visible only when blinking
  • Often see black/white/translucent rainbow dots in vision, sometimes in day, but frequent at night or persistent.
  • I often find that its harder to see at night, as in low visibility or blurriness maybe?
• Left sided jaw clicking worse in morning
• Sinus/nose pressure worse in morning
• Dry eyes in morning
• Catching on throat swallow / coarse breathing if i relax throat and sometimes lying down sideways i feel like throat sags. Coarse/snore breathing especially when lying down flat on floor, which is new to me.
• Voice lisp, probably from jaw tension/tmj
• Scalloped tongue always present.
• Throbbing behind head sometimes audible when sleeping/lying down, or after exercise; would sometimes see heartbeat in vision accompanied by throbbing.
• Clenching abs i would feel pressure propagate through jaw/throat sometimes sinus/eye.
• Frequently bloated
• Sometimes excessively yawn
• Right eye pupil bigger than left (mainly visible at night, during day seems about same time, both pupils react fine to light, only noticed 5 months ago)

Background context:

Never injured myself, just use PC a lot, possibly hours without breaks. Don't do a lot of exercise.

Doctor visits:

·         ENT doctor visits -> said everything fine, unclear cause of my issues

·         TMJ doctor visits (No imaging) -> said jaw looks fine

·         Sleep apnea home test -> negative

·         Blood work -> normal

·         Eye exam -> normal

·         Auditory region of brain MRI -> normal (they did this to mainly rule out cancer in hearing region)

·         Hearing test -> normal

·         Physio -> Claimed weak deep neck flexor, said do chin tucks. Did chin tucks, have made or started throat issues, like throat catching/coarse breathing on relaxing of throat.

Possible causes:

·         Chiari malformation

·         Cervical instability

·         Intercranial hypertension

·         UARS / sleep issue

·         Dysautonomia

·         TMJ – (I know I have this but unclear if an upstream or downstream issue)

·         Musco-skeletal / posture?