Do you snore?? Do you thrash at night? You sound so much like my boyfriend when his sleep apnea was untreated! Ask your wife if you snore and if you do, have a sleep test done ASAP! His headaches and sleepiness have virtualy disappeared. He was lightheaded all the time, sensitive to light, felt he had allergy symptoms because his head felt heavy and congested and tight all the time. He was frequently confused and his short-term memory was shot. He felt a band of tension across his head. Consider sleep apnea, please. Treatment for it has given Mike a large part of his life back. It's something that very, very few neurologists consider when evaluating patients for these weird, seemingly unrelated symptoms.
The late response is because I travelled to see an Internal Medicine Dr over the weekend. Iv'e not received the results from the blood work yet but everything checked out fine with the exception that my blood preasure is inconsistant and needs to be controlled. I had an ultrasoud done on the heart, which the results were good.
I started taking the Amitriptyline only about a week ago. The Dr. who perscribed it felt that much of what was going on could be stress or anxiety related.
The sysptoms are all still here, I really would like to know whats happening to me.
Thank you all for the help, you a all a pillow of support!
Bahama-Boy
Your symptoms are very diffuse and difficult to localize to one particular region. It is possible that the majority of symptoms you are experiencing are related to migraine headaches. However given the symptoms of dizziness excluding abnormalities within the brain are important. Therefore, it would be reasonable to have a MRI of your brain. If these symptoms of dizziness began after the infection in August then a viral inner ear infection would need to be considered.
Cardiac causes for your chest pain should be discussed with your primary doctor. If you have not seen a neurologist it would be recommended. This will help to determine any testing which needs to be performed. Sorry I could not be more specific. Good luck
Hi BB,
I have also undergone bypass surgery, and know something of heart disease and its symptoms.
You are concerned about your chest symptoms and heart disease.
Angina can be distinguished from other chest pains, because the pain/fullness/tightness increases with exertion, and lessens or stops with rest. If your chest pain is independent of exertion, then it is not angina.
You have several risk factors for heart disease, and you might want to discuss statin or cholesterol lowering medication with your doctor. I wish I had.
I have suffered from depression, anxiety, and migraine. It sounds like you are experiencing anxiety attacks, tension headaches, and other symptoms that are stress related.
Basic mental health hygiene: get sufficient rest, exercise, proper diet. Other areas that need work: relationshiip, the job, the kids.
Good luck.
Hello, can I ask why you are taking Amitriptyline and how long you have been taking it for????????
Just a thought as you can get some strange side effects with the drug.
Elival doesn't always have strange effects. When I first took it I was always sleepy for the better part of the morning and that's all. Next time I took them, I was having anxiety so the effects were different and more scary. So it depends on the phycological aspect. I would say the lightheadedness and dizziness could be caused by the accident and it referring pain to your head. I had and still have the same problems after I pulled muscles in my neck and back. Try massage therapy with someone who knows about trigger points. It helped me quite a bit.