u/fafaying

Before starting, i want to highlight an important thing: i was diagnosed with OCD and generalized anxiety disorder and since i was young i was always concerned about my health and get paranoid with even the slightest symptom even if it wasn’t important. Maybe this made the whole experience worse but i just don’t want to say “oh my OCD is causing me a headache” and throw it off.
I will describe the pattern and frequency of the headaches that i am having but the time line since it first started may not be so accurate.

2-3 years ago i had a first time bilateral frontal headache (not as a band, two points) which was very weird because it is not exactly a headache but it was a weird sensation and it felt like there is something sharp on both sides of my head like a nail or a screw that is squeezing on both sides and it tend to get worse with bending forward. But it happened maybe just one time in the whole year. After that, i had it one more time and it became more frequent but still not so frequent at all. Last year, the frequency of this type of headache increased and I started to experience another types of headache. One which was on one side mainly on the side of my head/forehead and was associated with photophobia and it was severe that i couldn’t look at my phone or study or anything i used just to sit in a dark room and it gradually decreases in severity. Another type of headache that i also had is headache at the back of my head which is usually on both sides and is squeezing/pressure in character. I had all of those the last year but still they didn’t seem to happen so often.

Side note: Sometimes the headache is worsened when my head touches something like a pillow or even if i touch my headache it increases the pain.
Also, most of headache episodes lasted for couple of days and resolved spontaneously without medication.

This year, i am noticing that the frequency of all these types of headaches is increasing. The last attack was on may 2026 and it approximately continued for one month with a pain-free intervals in between, it wasn’t severe but it was there .. now i am having finals exam and i tend to have short episodes of headache which is mainly pressure headache with burning sensation sometimes.
I don’t know if this is alarming or not.. i went to a neurologist and he rushed me, i couldn’t tell all those details but he still ordered a CT venography to rule out cerebral venous thrombosis.
But i am so scared, anyone experienced the same thing?

I have a very severe health anxiety, even on the days in which i didn’t have headache.. the first thing i used to do once i wakeup is thinking “will i have a headache today?” And it is so tiring to always think about it, i feel like sometimes i am manifesting it but as i said i don’t to throw it off like that i just don’t know if it’s an organic problem or if my anxiety causing it.

Before starting, i want to highlight an important thing: i was diagnosed with OCD and generalized anxiety disorder and since i was young i was always concerned about my health and get paranoid with even the slightest symptom even if it wasn’t important. Maybe this made the whole experience worse but i just don’t want to say “oh my OCD is causing me a headache” and throw it off.
I will describe the pattern and frequency of the headaches that i am having but the time line since it first started may not be so accurate.

2-3 years ago i had a first time bilateral frontal headache (not as a band, two points) which was very weird because it is not exactly a headache but it was a weird sensation and it felt like there is something sharp on both sides of my head like a nail or a screw that is squeezing on both sides and it tend to get worse with bending forward. But it happened maybe just one time in the whole year. After that, i had it one more time and it became more frequent but still not so frequent at all. Last year, the frequency of this type of headache increased and I started to experience another types of headache. One which was on one side mainly on the side of my head/forehead and was associated with photophobia and it was severe that i couldn’t look at my phone or study or anything i used just to sit in a dark room and it gradually decreases in severity. Another type of headache that i also had is headache at the back of my head which is usually on both sides and is squeezing/pressure in character. I had all of those the last year but still they didn’t seem to happen so often.

Side note: Sometimes the headache is worsened when my head touches something like a pillow or even if i touch my headache it increases the pain.
Also, most of headache episodes lasted for couple of days and resolved spontaneously without medication.

This year, i am noticing that the frequency of all these types of headaches is increasing. The last attack was on may 2026 and it approximately continued for one month with a pain-free intervals in between, it wasn’t severe but it was there .. now i am having finals exam and i tend to have short episodes of headache which is mainly pressure headache with burning sensation sometimes.
I don’t know if this is alarming or not.. i went to a neurologist and he rushed me, i couldn’t tell all those details but he still ordered a CT venography to rule out cerebral venous thrombosis.
But i am so scared, anyone experienced the same thing?

I have a very severe health anxiety, even on the days in which i didn’t have headache.. the first thing i used to do once i wakeup is thinking “will i have a headache today?” And it is so tiring to always think about it, i feel like sometimes i am manifesting it but as i said i don’t to throw it off like that i just don’t know if it’s an organic problem or if my anxiety causing it.

Before starting, i want to highlight an important thing: i was diagnosed with OCD and generalized anxiety disorder and since i was young i was always concerned about my health and get paranoid with even the slightest symptom even if it wasn’t important. Maybe this made the whole experience worse but i just don’t want to say “oh my OCD is causing me a headache” and throw it off.
I will describe the pattern and frequency of the headaches that i am having but the time line since it first started may not be so accurate.

2-3 years ago i had a first time bilateral frontal headache (not as a band, two points) which was very weird because it is not exactly a headache but it was a weird sensation and it felt like there is something sharp on both sides of my head like a nail or a screw that is squeezing on both sides and it tend to get worse with bending forward. But it happened maybe just one time in the whole year. After that, i had it one more time and it became more frequent but still not so frequent at all. Last year, the frequency of this type of headache increased and I started to experience another types of headache. One which was on one side mainly on the side of my head/forehead and was associated with photophobia and it was severe that i couldn’t look at my phone or study or anything i used just to sit in a dark room and it gradually decreases in severity. Another type of headache that i also had is headache at the back of my head which is usually on both sides and is squeezing/pressure in character. I had all of those the last year but still they didn’t seem to happen so often.

Side note: Sometimes the headache is worsened when my head touches something like a pillow or even if i touch my headache it increases the pain.
Also, most of headache episodes lasted for couple of days and resolved spontaneously without medication.

This year, i am noticing that the frequency of all these types of headaches is increasing. The last attack was on may 2026 and it approximately continued for one month with a pain-free intervals in between, it wasn’t severe but it was there .. now i am having finals exam and i tend to have short episodes of headache which is mainly pressure headache with burning sensation sometimes.
I don’t know if this is alarming or not.. i went to a neurologist and he rushed me, i couldn’t tell all those details but he still ordered a CT venography to rule out cerebral venous thrombosis.
But i am so scared, anyone experienced the same thing?

I have a very severe health anxiety, even on the days in which i didn’t have headache.. the first thing i used to do once i wakeup is thinking “will i have a headache today?” And it is so tiring to always think about it, i feel like sometimes i am manifesting it but as i said i don’t to throw it off like that i just don’t know if it’s an organic problem or if my anxiety causing it.