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[edit] Oops !

FYI, I fixed a typo that said that EHS _does_ make your head explode when, in fact, it doesn't. :) Xenon 21:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions?

I may have experienced something similar. Occasionally, I would feel (in my right ear) something like holding a leaf blower up to the side of my head. I'd cover my ear with my hand, but it won't help much. Is this something close, or a different anomaly? p.s. I'm a 14 year-old caucasian male. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.189.81.2 (talk • contribs)

My suggestion would be to check with a doctor. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a medical forum. See our medical disclaimer: Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer. In fact, Wikipedia isn't any kind of forum; talk pages like this one are supposed to be focused solely on how to go about improving the article they're associated with, not on the subject of the article in general. Bryan 07:47, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is this a joke?

No it isn't. See the external links

[edit] Real Phenomenon

"... exploding head syndrome is a real phenomenon and not caused by psychological disturbances." -- I don't understand; does this mean EHS has physical causes as opposed to psychological (or even psychosematic) causes? This is not backed up by the text. Do we have a citation? --Jquarry 23:02, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I have had this

I have had this happen several times. Just before drifting off to sleep it sounds like a shotgun going off and light flashing inside my head and one awakes scared to death with heart racing. It has only happened a couple of times. The first time it happened I thought someone had fired a gun off by my head, but my wife was sleeping peacefully and didn't hear a thing. It scared me thinking maybe I had had a blood vessel or something burst in my head. Glad to know it is nothing serious! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bronqito (talk • contribs) 11 November 2006

Be sure to read Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer - if you had some sort of medical concern you should really check with a doctor about it and not put it off because of something you read here, there's no guarantees about the accuracy of any of it. And also bear in mind that these talk pages aren't intended to be general chat forums like this, they should be used to discuss the editing of the associated article rather than the topic as a whole. Bryan 00:12, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

It was cool finding this because at first I didn't know what was going on. Same with the sleep paralysis. --ISeeDeadPixels 00:25, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Do I have exploding head syndrome?

Ever since I was little, whenever its completely quiet, sometimes I hear this loud tone in my head. It's not nessicarily before going to sleep, but its really loud. I never even noticed this was strange until someone told me about this syndrome... please help :) Thank you

Wikipedia doesn't give medical advice, please see Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer. If you have a medical question you should probably ask a doctor. Bryan 00:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't we Bold and all caps that it does not cause your head to LITERALLY EXPLODE? 17:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)~

I'm not sure, it might be like the "ocean" sound of a seashell, except in your ear chambers. I don't know about loud, but after hearing no other sounds for so long it can subjectively seem amazingly loud. If it's pulsing, that's the sound of circulation in ear vessels. Sagittarian Milky Way 08:37, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Classic migraine with aura

This "exploding head syndrome" seems very similar to what I had during most of my childhood. That is, I sometimes woke up in the middle of the night hearing tremendously loud noises and continued to hear them for some minutes until they faded away. I know what it was in my case, it was "just" classic migraine with aura. Since it sometimes came with other symptoms that I have during my aura attacks. (I have been diagnosed to have migraine with aura by neurologists.)

Considering how aura attacks work I am not surprised it can cause such strong audio effects. But I always found it a bit strange that I never get such loud noises during aura attacks in the day, only in the night. (I only get minor tinnitus like continuous "beeps" during some aura attacks in the day.)

For anyone interested in hearing the noise I heard just listen to the first 15 seconds of Mike Oldfield's song Five Miles Out. It is the pulsating synthesiser sound you hear together with the drums just before the singing starts. Although I like that song it made my stomach turn every time I heard the beginning of the song for like the first 100 times or so I heard it.

--David Göthberg 21:04, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is this considered a rare condition?

As long as I remember, I've had tinnitus all my life, and when lying in bed, it would ALWAYS intensify until it finally exploded and my eyes burst open in fear and startle...ment... every night it happened; it never failed and still doesn't. I doubt it's as rare as the EHS disambiguation page says. Dagron12345 04:48, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

The Mayo Clinic link calls it "uncommon" and one of the research papers linked calls it "rare", but considering how many people come on here and say they have it (including me) I'm pretty skeptical too. Recury 17:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
That's probably due to self-diagnosis through research on Wikipedia, or being drawn to the page after diagnosis by a doctor. I'm sure any medical page will have a high viewership by people who are described by the page. 68.181.241.86 (talk) 10:46, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] First described

It appears that it was first described in 1920 rather than 1988 as mentioned. Then as "snapping of the brain" in R. Armstrong-Jones, Snapping of the brain, Lancet ii (1920), p. 720 Perhaps someone who can access the Lancet (i can't) could have a look and change it if needs be. Nk.sheridan   Talk 21:33, 1 April 2008 (UTC)