Strange Symptoms for 2 months

[Prodigy926]

A week before Christmas, I was driving home to Southern California from Las Vegas where out of nowhere, I was struck by a bad dizzy spell. I couldnt focus on anything and had a hard time keeping my eyes open. I pulled over and waited for a bit until it passed which took approx. 1 hour. After this initial symptom, I was fine. A couple of days later, I started getting these stabbing like, pins and needles and burning feelings all throughout my head. The symptoms would come and go and last a couple of hours at a time. I can press on my head and feel the areas that are causing pain. Almost like a muscel type ache but with a nerve issue. I can press on the area hurting and it either aches or feels like I am being stabbed with a knife. Over Christmas, a week after the symptoms started, I would get periods of dizziness like the room was moving or I would feel like I am swaying. If I drank alcohol, it would make the symptoms much worse.
After these initial symptoms, my intestinal area started feeling very irritated like a sick feeling when I would first wake up in the morning or after eating. I would eat and my intestinal and stomach area would feel upset, I would get bad gas pains, get dizzy spells and a tingling feeling in my head.
I woke up one morning very dizzy about  and the left side of my head ( my left) felt like it was on fire. I rushed to the ER where nothing was done and was told that I was too young to be exposed to a Cat Scan ( because of radiation) and to come back if symptoms persisted.  Weird Headaches as mentioned previously are still occuring on a daily basis at this point. I scheduled an appointment with my doctor. He told me that my throat seemed irritated and may be coming down with something ( This is about a month after the first symptom) and ordered blood work and prescribed me Augmentin.  I started taking the Augmentin and on the 2nd day, I started having severe diaharea.That night, Iayed in bed and started having severe rectal pain. So severe that I could not sleep, walk, sit or anything. I made the decision after about 5 hours to go to the ER again thinking that I was having a reaction to the medication. I was told at the ER that I had hemroids and was prescribed some hydrocordisone cream. The cream nor over the counter medication helped. I was in so much pain that I couldnt drive or walk and could only lay down. I scheduled another visit to my doctor the next day and he looked me over and saw no hemroids or any other issue. He explained that it could of been Inflamed bowel disease and that it could of been from the Augmentin.  He prescribed me prednisone for a 6 day period. This helped the pain go away and I stopped the Augmentin right away. While all of this is going on, I am still having my initial symptoms that started a month prior.
I started having bad constipation and burning in my urination. Figuring that I may have an infection of some sort, I went to the ER. Nothing again. No positive tests other than positive that I was in great health.  Having all of these combined problems for well over a month started to really worry me.  After about another week, my urination was normal and I was starting to make proper bowel movements. The headaches, dizziness and blurred vision all continued.  I would have some attacks that I would feel my head tingle then go into aches with vision starting to blur. I would start sweating when the attacks would subside (on my forehead) and get extremely tired.  
I went to see a doctor that I had seen for a number of years in a different state and he told me it was axiety related and gave me adivan. Which, I have taken years ago for anxiety and stress. I listened to him and started taking the medicine at night before bed. No fix to my issues at all.
nearly 2 months go by and I fly back east to see family. I schedule to see a doctor that has been seeing me since I was a child. He performed many tests and asked alot of questions. My health was great and was puzzled in what could be causing this. He prescribed me Nexium for my stomach issues, Nasal Cort for my allergies, Medlizone if I am to get dizzy and lastly, a strong anti biotic to clear the conjestion he found in my nose. I have always struggled with allergies and sinus issues so he ordered a cat scan of my sinuses which I am to do tomorrow morning. My symptoms seemed to disapate a bit over a week period and I was feeling better. Having shorter symptoms and a couple of days of full relief. I thought everything was getting back to normal and tonight, I started to get the initial symptoms of the headaches that were described earlier. Pins and needles feeling, slightly blurred vision, light headed, burning eyes, strong bitter taste in the mouth along with sweating after the 2 hour attack.
Extremely tired now, I type this hoping for an answer from someone. I do not believe this to be stress for I have nothing to be stressed about. It cant be the flu and everything else just doesnt seem to add up to anything. I have been extremely healthy all of my life and have never had issues like this before. I am active physically and have always eaten healthy. I cut alcohol out(which was an occassional thing) completely for over a month now,  I am 26 years old and a male.

[Prodigy926]

Thanks alot for the response. I will let you know what the results are once I find out. Hopefully this gets straightened out because its effecting my quality of life in every which way. Thanks again!

[ggreg]

Dear Prodigy,
Wow, that's some story.  I feel so sorry for you, so young and so sick.  I'm glad you're getting your CAT scan today, the report may take a while.  Your latest family doc said you have a nasal infection, and you yourself said you have alawys struggled with allergies and sinus issues.  I personally think you have a raging sinus infection, which gave you all those dizzy symptoms, and then it drained down into your tummy, and your digestion got all goofed up.  And since you reported last night that your head symptoms returned, this suggests you're going to need some hefty treatment to get rid of the problem.

Now, let me tell you something about a German Shepherd Dog I had whose sinuses were bleeding.  He was a rescue, older fella, he went to hell and back.  When we got him, it took about six months to straighten the poor guy out.  One of his problems was, no one could fix his sinuses, they were bleeding.  So we went to another state (sounds like you) and turned him over to a top veterinarian university.  One of the things they did to treat him was, they put him under anesthesia and flushed his nose out, in order to look around in there.  They couldn't figure out what was wrong.  BUT, GET THIS, after that "flushing," he never had a sinus problem again.  

The reason I'm telling you about our dog, is because I want you to know how flushing out the sinuses JUST MIGHT make you feel better.  And I'm REALLY glad your doc is scanning your sinuses, because you don't want this thing to tear up your nose the way our dog's nose was.  This is all unscientific, and no doc would necessarily say flushing a nose would make it well, but I'm just telling you what I witnessed.

I might add, back BEFORE Christmas when all this wierdness started, if you were taking a drug or using a nose spray for your allergies as a routine thing, or if you grabbed something over-the-counter in Vegas, don't ever take that medicine again.

I will be looking for you to post back after your scan report.  Work with this old family doc, he sounds fantastic.  GG