I have been experiencing sensitivity to cold/cool temperatures that is just localized to my head since October of last year. Since then, it has continually gotten worse. It initially started off mild with just a general numbness/head pressure and brain fog feeling when I was exposed to cooler temperatures that would last for a few hours.
Recently, I have become so sensitive to cooler temperatures that being in a room with any airflow/draft causes head pressure and brain fog that lasts for the rest of the day. This means that being outside or being in the same room as an air conditioner vent that is running is not possible for me. In the last few weeks or so the head pressure and brain fog have transitioned into being more painful. The sensation is akin to having a constant brain freeze, but it lasts for the most part of the day or sometimes all of it.
I'm in a catch 22 situation because I also experience external compression headaches in the form of head pressure and brain when I wear hats, so I can't protect my head really in any way.
I am unsure if I have ME/CFS, but I do have many symptoms that align with it. I have been searching on PR forums for temperature sensitivity issues like mine, but nothing seems to really describe what I am going through because my temperature sensitivity is only localized to my head and is not apparent anywhere else in my body.
I am putting this out there to see if anyone else has experienced something like this or has any ideas as to what mechanisms might be behind it. Starting to feel like one-in-a-million with this one.
Recently, I have become so sensitive to cooler temperatures that being in a room with any airflow/draft causes head pressure and brain fog that lasts for the rest of the day. This means that being outside or being in the same room as an air conditioner vent that is running is not possible for me. In the last few weeks or so the head pressure and brain fog have transitioned into being more painful. The sensation is akin to having a constant brain freeze, but it lasts for the most part of the day or sometimes all of it.
I'm in a catch 22 situation because I also experience external compression headaches in the form of head pressure and brain when I wear hats, so I can't protect my head really in any way.
I am unsure if I have ME/CFS, but I do have many symptoms that align with it. I have been searching on PR forums for temperature sensitivity issues like mine, but nothing seems to really describe what I am going through because my temperature sensitivity is only localized to my head and is not apparent anywhere else in my body.
I am putting this out there to see if anyone else has experienced something like this or has any ideas as to what mechanisms might be behind it. Starting to feel like one-in-a-million with this one.