migraine? Sinus headache? Anxiety?

Hello:  I seem to suffer from sinus fullness/ headaches whenever the barometric pressure changes, what's weird is that most of the time it's accompanies by a wiggy, spacey, dizzy sensation; it's hard to describe!  I call it wiggy, or lemon-headed, because I feel like my skull is stuffed with a sour lemon and I just want it OUT!  (I know that sounds weird).  Then a maddening sinus congestion kicks in, along with the wigginess/dizziness, and I start feeling trembly and shaking and nervous and agitated.  I just want to kill someone!  At some point during the day it evolves into dull, what seems to be sinus headaches.  I have never been able to tell if it's allergies, anxiety, or just plain old sinus headaches, or all three (migraine?)

The whole show usually lasts two or three weeks and goes away for a while.  Often the next season change will bring it on again.  This time, it's been almost 6 weeks with no relief.  I'm feeling miserable, tearful, frustrated.  

The whole thing started when my first daughter was born 20 years ago and I was 26 years old.  I came down with a "cold" (sinus headache, full head), that didn't go away for about a month and a half.  After my second daughter was born, the "wiggy" dizzy, anxiety/agitation stuff started coming along with it.  I thought I was going crazy.  I started taking sudafed when my oldest daughter was born and I have been taking 2 tablets a day since then.  It's the only thing that relieves the pressure.  

Around the time I was 32, I saw a shrink after my marriage broke up.  I was prescribed cKonopin and zoloft, and for a year or more, my problems seemed to be solved!  At some point I started abusing the Klonopin, so I had to quit.  I'm not sure when all the wigginess kicked back in, but it did.  I eventually just got used to feeling miserable for a couple of weeks 3 or 4 times a year.  

But this the last two years have been the worst.  My nurse practitioner prescribed Xanax, and I've been taking Effexor for the last couple of years.  I was worried about abusing it though.  It DID help alot with those wiggy agitated feelings I was getting.  My problem was, I would take more than my prescribed amount and then go through mild withdrawal until I could get it refilled again (.25 to .50 mg per day).  Finally I told her I was taking too much, running out, etc.  

Oh, and in the midst of all this, she referred me to a shrink who diagnosed me bipolor II.  The guy stuck me on all kinds of ****:  neurontin, lamictal, wellbutrin.  I felt like a zombie freak of nature and all my friends and family said this guy was a nut and I did not have bipolar II. So, I went back to my nurse practitioner and she agreed.  I took Xanax for a little while longer, becoming more and more concerned about abusing it, until my nurse practitioner cut me off about 3 months ago.  This spring the sinus (quite a while after I stopped the Xanax) congestion, wigginess, tremors, shakiness, spaciness, dizziness, headaches have been the worst ever!  Since then, I've been weaning off Effexor because of high blood pressure and started Inderal, which did help some with the shakiness, but the spacey lemon headed feeling is still there, and I still get headaches (Inderal was supposed to help with anxiety in place of Xanax, as well as the high blood pressure until I'm off Effexor).  Interestingly enough, its supposed to be helpful with migraines and I've lately wondered, after doing some research on the web whether or not my sinus headaches and wigginess is really migraine.  Also oddly enough, I was surprised to discover how much bipolar II and migraine have in common (agitated states, etc), and are both treated with mood stabilizers (I'm not interested in trying any more of those).  

On top of all these symptoms, I'm having trouble focusing, reading, writing, thinking. . . the foggy head stuff.  My nurse practitioner wants me to be evaluated for ADD as well (former shrink who diagnosed me with bipolar II also said I had ADD: I don't doubt it).  She seems to think Adderal might be the answer to all my worries, and though it sounds interesting, I worry about whether or not that would make my wiggies worse, or better, and whether or not I would abuse it.  I would like to see a neurologist as well, but the nurse practitioner seems to think I'd get whatever diagnosis I'd like.  It would be nice to rule out other things, or reconfirm migraine, but after seeing that so many have had this test and that test and seen a thousand different specialists, I wonder if I would just end up back at square one.  I MISS the Xanax, and I've begged for it back because its the only thing that's given me any relief, but I also know I have a potential to abuse it.  I may very well try some marijuanna, which I have not smoked since I was very young, but if it works. . . .hey, it might be better than getting hooked on xanax again.  Any one else try pot for the shakiness and headaches?  Any one else with these kinds of symptoms?  What is this?


Sorry to go on so long.  I'm feeling desperate and frustrated.