Hi I have been having some back neck and head pressure for ...

Dear Customer (name blocked for privacy),

Indentations in your skull are called "suture lines". They are where your skull formed and came together. When you were a baby, they were fontanels or "soft-spots". As we age, these fontanels come together almost completely, but leave suture lines. In many cases, they don't completely come together, and leave a more prominent indentation than others might have, but they are located in roughly the same spots in everyone.

There is really no correlation in headaches and how closed the fontanels are. Tension headaches often begin in the back of the head and upper neck as a band-like tightness or pressure. Tension headaches also are described as a band of pressure encircling the head with the most intense pain over the eyebrows. The pain of tension headaches usually is mild (not disabling) and bilateral (affecting both sides of the head). Tension headaches are seldom associated with nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light and sound. If you have sensitivity to light or sound, you may be experiencing migraines.

If you have no previous headache history, you may want to put a little pressure on your doctor to rule out any other problems, and also make sure that he is treating your headache the right way.

Good luck!

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OKay well that makes sense to me. I never really messed with my head before I started having the tension. It all started with our pillow top bed becoming lumpy and I have just been sore since then and then the head pressure made me nervous. SO I was playing with the back of my head rubbing it and noticed those indentions. I know I cant really say they are not normal because i never noticed them before but only because i never rubbed the back of my head. If that makes any sense. I am glad you could ease my mind. Its not really a headache because there isnt any pain. Just some pressure but it starts in my back and goes into neck and head.Its not unbareable just getting annoying! He said if its not better within a week or two to come back and he will do an xray of the cervical part of my head and then send me to physical therapy to try and release the pressure and relax the muscles. The indention are at the back of the head and they are on both sides of my head right above where the bottom ones are on my skull.

Do you wake up with headaches?

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No, i am fine in the morning it seems to get aggervated throughout the day. And seems worse at night time.

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Thank you for your advice and help. Yeah he has me on Naproxen and Cyclobenzaprine. I guess I just have to give it some time to work. :) I have a 8 month old son and I just want to make sure I am healthy for him. Being a mom now I worry about my own health. Thank you.

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