“I have a dent in the back of my head?”
When I was younger, I used to rest my head on the metal bar of my bunk bed. There's a dent in that spot and causes me headaches if I put a little pressure there. I moved my pillows to the other side to stop it but the dent is still there.
Female | 14 years old
2 Answers
DoctorDoctor
Answered before
Hello and thanks for sharing your history of a dented head and the potential problems it is creating now. Thanks for allowing me to offer my thoughts, tips, and suggestions regarding your question. Do you believe that the headaches directly come from pressing on the dent? Or, may the headaches come first, and then pushing on the dent makes it worse? As a 14-year-old adolescent female, your bones may have stopped growing. Therefore the dent may be there forever. However, the soft tissues around the dent may be inflamed when pressed or massaged. Tissue massage around that area may help make these dent-related headaches subside or become less severe. The nerves between the skin of your skull and your skull (not deep into your brain) may be trapped or deformed around the dented area. So, massaging it a lot may help make them healthier and give you less pain. I hope this helps.
