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Doctor suggested Cushing's Syndrome, Memory/Verbal Impairments

Hello! I'm a 19 year old female in need of some help! For the past year, I've noticed a significant decline in my health, both mentally and physically. I have gained about 50 pounds within the past 6-7 months, even though I have increased my physical activity and have somewhat healthy eating habits. I also deal with varying sleep issues. I have physically kicked, punched and held conversations with my boyfriend and my roommate in my sleep. Some nights, I suffer from sleep paralysis paired with visual/auditory hallucinations. I'll lay in bed, seeing/hearing the hallucination, unable to move and struggling to breath, as I try to scream for help. The hallucinations are normally of demons pressing down on my chest or standing in the room, speaking to me. The time between the fits of sleep paralysis seem to be getting shorter and shorter. It's frightening. Onto memory problems! I am beginning to forget the names of people I spend time with occasionally, I consistently forget where the car is parked (and even at times which car I was riding in,) I have trouble remembering how to spell simple words at times, I say things one moment and a few minutes later I will repeat myself or will be confronted and not remember my statement, and my memory issues have come to a point where family and friends have called it to my attention as being pretty drastic. As for verbal, I have developed a stuttering problem and I am having trouble completing sentences (sometimes I stop in the middle of my sentence to try and remember what I am saying,) and my vocabulary while talking face-to-face with others seems to have diminished. I try to play puzzles games and word games and what not but my ability to complete them in a timely manner, nevertheless, complete them at all, has also had a dramatic decline. Other minor symptoms are, constant nausea, headache/migraines, dizziness, fatigue, swollen/hard breasts, occasional blurred visions, stumbling, slurring, and loss of time. I know it all seems like a lot to complain about and I'm sorry! My doctor has suggested Cushing's Syndrome and I am currently awaiting results but I also forgot to mention at my appointment with him a couple of my symptoms. The only medications I am currently taking is 325 mg of Iron, 3 times daily as prescribed by a previous doctor for anemia and I started taking a birth control pill a week ago. No drugs, no allergies. I ave also been to the ER twice in the past month  for severe pelvic pain and abnormal bleeding. I received a trans vaginal ultrasound both times. The first ER doctor diagnosed me with a burst ovarian cyst with no other cysts, the second ER doctor diagnosed me with one small Ovarian Cyst, and an OB/GYN who I visited afterwards with the ER report pressed on my stomach for a few minutes and diagnosed me with endometriosis. I don't know if this is relevant but I'll include it.  Watching myself fade away mentally is horrifying and I didn't not realize how bad it was. Hopefully someone can provide an easily treatable answer or a way to work past these concerns. Thank you!
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1756321 tn?1547095325
I was in the mid stages of dementia with vitamin B12 deficiency. That deficiency messes up the brain big time. And fatigue is the #1 symptom.  If you want to try the B12 deficiency test quiz google: B12d - B12 Signs & Symptoms Assessment.
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Thank you for the answer! I will definitely discuss it with my doctor and I will google the quiz! :)
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