Fears of chronic subdural hematoma
 

Hi!

I currently am having this intense fear of having a chronic subdural hematoma.

It's now been day 6 of this mysterious headache. It's really more of a pressure in my head that keeps shifting locations and varies in intensity from 1 to 5-6. Sometimes the pressure is on my face and bridge of nose. Then it moves to being on top of my head like there is a literal weight right on top. Then it can move to being a band from one ear to the other. It's really scaring me and I tried hard to think of what it could be.

During the first days, I chalked it up to some type of tension headache, but this headache is taking so long that I am now scared that I am suffering from a chronic subdural hematoma. I did have a minor head hit a month ago. It happened when my friend and I were getting in a taxi. I sat down at the same time as my friend from the other side swung their backpack into the back seat and the backpack hit the side of my head. I do have health anxiety from head hits, so when that happened, I started panicking thinking I was going to get a concussion or an acute brain bleed. I got a weird sensation in the part that got hit, but I actually managed to forget about it and feel completely normal after 30 minutes. And then, I never thought about this accident again since the following weeks were all good. I might have had some mini headaches that lasted like 10-30 minutes during all this time, but it didn't seem serious, it just hurt and then it didn't.

But now I am super scared of this new headache. Could this really be a chronic subdural hematoma from my head hit or is this my fear playing tricks on me?

I would like to add that I measured my blood pressure at home - it was 109/67.

And I did have another minor head impact three weeks ago, which I just remembered. I was hugging and comforting my younger sister since she was crying over something and during that time her head hit mine repeatedly since we were huddling close and she was sobbing. I didn't think much of the impacts and kept pushing them away since I wanted to support her and eventually I also forgot about those.

So technically all of my previous head hits from a month ago are coming back to me and scaring me. The backpack hit and the one from my sister are the ones with most force.

I've had concussion caused head aches twice. Both times, the headaches were chronic for 6 months. The brain sometimes responds to an impact by struggling to control fluid pressure.

A subdural hematoma would be excruciating, not a 1 -5 pain.