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confusion, panic, dizziness, eyes seem weird

I really need help.  I'm 21 yrs old and when i was studying abroad i just felt gradually and gradually worse.  Feelings of confusion, panic, easily startled....and just feeling in a fog.  I was also very sick with something later on and ever since i feel 20x worse.    Now my eyes feel like they are crossed and when i talk to someone and look at them, it seems like my eyes get more and more blurry to where i have to look away.  Everything looks dull and it seems like my eyes can't focus to objects correctly.  Besides that, i'm always feeling confused and feelings of being in a fog...like everything around me is going on around me while im not there...occasionally i will get a twitch as well. I can't concentrate on anything nor think straight at all... I had a test that said i had mono but a long time ago(7months ago), but all my blood tests/sugar levels are fine according to doc's.  Now they are treating for depression and im on wellbutrin.  im pretty much at the point where i'm becoming suicidal b/c i can't take this anymore.  I used to love to run, read, and do so many things and i can't do anything anymore.  i've been like this since march and if i remain like this for much longer i cant take it anymore.....i have job interviews and all sorts of things right now.  Somebody help
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I hope it's not to late, but I have these same issue and finally discovered what is was after $1000s in testing with nothing found.  My diagnosis was binocular vision dysfunction.  This is caused by a misalignment of the eyes which sends 2 separate pictures to your brain.  Since the brain doesn't like double vision it works the eyes extra hard to correct the image.   This also causes stress, anxiety and many other issues.   Glasses with prism lenses is the treatment.  There are only a few places in the US that have the equipment to diagnose and treat the condition, but I have my glasses and on day 2 I am already feeling at peace.  I am getting treatment at Neurovisual Specialist of Florida.  I hope this helps everyone who has been suffering from this.  It's more common than people think, but usually diagnosed as something else.  
https://www.neurovisualflorida.com/binocular-vision-dysfunction/
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For sum reason im going threw the same issue as you and I don't no what to do.I didn't no how to explain it the way you did. I had a brain injury about 10yrs ago and that's what started mine  I have came to a healing Plato and this is what im left dealing with.now can you return a favor threw God and help me find out what's going on with me what should I do?just asking for help.
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Please get a test for Lyme disease, as this disease can make your brain fog, forgetful, twitches, derealisation, dizzy. Treating lyme and food intolerances (in my case, lactose and eggs) cured me of many of the symptoms you mention above. All the best
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I have been dealing with this as well for about the last 6 months. I think it is definitely anxiety-induced. Have been on Zoloft for 18 months and I feel like it could be a result of the Zoloft losing its effectiveness. I am quite certain my neurotransmitters are a mess, I cannot seem tolerate GABA, 5-HTP, etc like I used to. Just started working with a homeopath out of London and she believes my kidneys and liver are out of whack, almost certain dealing with copper toxicity. Waiting for homeopathies to arrive from overseas.
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Like you ever see a cat when it's in wild mode? I feel like I'm about to freak out like that. Of course i don't, just don't know how else to explain it. Sometimes i get my pulse in my eyes and it's like the veins in my eyes flash in my eyesight. I can't seem to think clearly and I don't work efficiently. It's becoming a real issue.
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Oh man does this suck, and its very real!

I am 45, in good health and my eyes feel like they are going to pop out of my head which gives me a feeling of I'm loosing it.

Been going on for about a week now, on and off but more on.  Started what seemed like a slight tension or sinus headache, now it seems to be all in my eyes.  I read someone getting red spots on the face once every few months.   Its not a zit and they last a week or so, then crust up and dissapear.   I have tied the dry eyes gig and that was obviously not it.   With so many of us having the same symptons there has to be a diagnosis for this.  Seeing the eye doctor next Friday and will let you know if anything positive comes.   Had a liver and brain scan within the last year so I am guessing/hoping its not that.    Thanks,   Scott
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So just came across this site because I'm feeling the same symptoms. Did they ever find out what caused all of those symptoms? I know its been a long time but I'm going through test right now myself. Just looking for answers.
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Sounds like panic attacks. You may need low dose alprazolam. Anti depressants good idea also.
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hi have you had any luck with your vision i hav bin getting the same as you 4 the last 15years
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I'm 26 and I'm pretty much experiencing all these symptoms. It's like my vision is stuck in a dazed/spaced out mode.
I don't really feel dizzy or lightheaded it's something in between accompanied with a foggy feeling that gets worse depending on what I'm doing and what I eat as well. Otherwise the base of it is there 24/7.
I also feel offbalanced and tired all the time.
Excessive mental effort or physical effort will increase all my symptoms and will start feeling super dazed and drunk.

I had a near death experience about a year ago after a drug overdose. I started to have random panic attacks for almost 2 months. I was fine for a few months until I've started to develop a few of these symptoms. However they were too light to even impair my life.

All I get from docs is "anxiety"
I went on seroxat, cymbalta, effoxor XR and one after the other made all my symptoms worse. Doctors didn't believe me and kept saying that these meds are harmless. I gave up on doctors and psychs and decided to think positive.

If this is fatal I will die, of this isn't fatal then I need to find a way to lead a normal life. 80% of any disease is psychological.
If you've done all the major tests out there then stop googling and seeing doctors and try to keep urself busy.
Trust me when I say that it's really annoying to pretend like there's nothing but we don't have a choice. I still have that 1% hope that this is curable.

For now all I can do is be a health freak, and find things that make me happy in life.
I promise you when I say it does get better.

I have heard diagnosis such an GAD, anxiety and depression, derealization / depersonalization , hyperthyroidism.

Wtv it is, it doesn't matter, I'm only taking meds for my thyroid cuz that's actual proof that I'm suffering from that. Otherwise stay off antipsychotics no matter what docs say.

Good luck everyone

BR,
Ahmed Shaaban
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Hey I was wondering if you got better? What I am experiencing is almost exactly what you described. I had a near death experience too because of a drug and I have hypothyroidism too.
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This are similar symptoms I was experiencing I thought I was going crazy. Try a gluten free diet. You should start to feel better in 2 weeks. It takes 3 to 4 months for the gluten to be out of your system. Good Luck
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Pgonk, I have been feeling the same way as you since last thanks giving. And from what I researched, being on the computer for a long period of hours, and reading long hours, playing games on the phone or computer for long hours, over a long period of time, cause your eyes to starin, because of the glare and fast movements of your eyes trying to process the games or reading that your doing. If your doing this excessively,  then you must a have put strain on your eyes, and you feel foggy, confused, and like everything is going on around you while your there,  but you don't feel there.. I been dealing with this for 3 months now, and I feel slowly it's going away, I stopped using the computer,  I stopped doing things that put strain on my eyes, and also trying getting as much fresh air as possible, because maybe it can be lack of oxygen going to your brain, but don't worry nothing to be scared or panic about, just simple,  try avoiding anything that might put strain on your eyes, and if you smoke, stop smoking. Get more fresh air. Because I went to the docs to, did blood tests, and everything came back normal, and when I was telling get my doctor that spend a lot a lot a lot,  of time at the computer and reading, and gaming on the computer,  he said that can be the problem,  from to much strain on your eyes, you can go and check your eyes also.. I was scared at first, but then slowly I starting experimentingredients on my self to see what are the causes of all this.. and I figured from the research and what doctors told me, it's all from Straining your eyes.. for me it's been 3 months, and slowly I feel it going away.. try to not be on the computer or watch tv, or do anything that will strain your eyes.. try sleeping more, and resting your eyes. Give it some time it will pass..
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What are the Symptoms of My son has found he had something most docors do not look for wrong with his eyes that caused almost all these symptoms in this thread.

Convergence Insufficiency?
A person who has convergence insufficiency may show and/or complain of the following while doing close work (i.e., reading, computer work, deskwork, playing handheld video games, doing crafts, etc.):

    eyestrain (especially with or after reading)
    headaches
    blurred vision
    double vision
    inability to concentrate
    short attention span
    frequent loss of place
    squinting, rubbing, closing or covering an eye
    sleepiness during the activity
    trouble remembering what was read
    words appear to move, jump, swim or float
    problems with motion sickness and/or vertigo

It is not unusual for a person with convergence insufficiency to cover or close one eye while reading to relieve the blurring or double vision. Symptoms will be worsened by illness, lack of sleep, anxiety, and/or prolonged close work.

Many people who would test as having convergence insufficiency [if tested] may not complain of double vision or the other symptoms listed above because vision in one eye has shut down. In other words, even though both eyes are open and are healthy and capable of sight, the person's brain ignores one eye to avoid double vision. This is a neurologically active process called suppression.1
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Hi!
I know that this post was from years ago but I came across it recently and was hoping someone could help me. I have had similar symptoms as the ones mentioned, last year but they have come back the past 2 weeks. I had just started my period and began feeling weird (I usually feel like this when I'm on it) but now I am done with it and STILL feel really weird. I am dizzy (like I am moving but I'm really not moving, or I am going to fall over/pass out), very tired, my eyes make things as if they are moving faster than they are (it's VERY hard to explain) and I just feel not like myself. I did not get a lot of sleep/exercise on my period last week so maybe that could have done something or maybe at my job looking at the computer 8 hours a day would have an effect. Could it be sinus/allergies? A wisdom tooth coming in? I have had an MRI, seen my eye doctor, an ENT and NOTHING has shown up. This was last year, the symptoms stopped eventually but now they're back! I am getting bloodwork done this week so maybe that will help me but does anyone have an ideas of what it could be?? It is so frustrating that I have this again and nobody has an answer for me.
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Ava Marie, hope you are doing well.  just wondering if you have gotten a diagnosis yet?  I have these issues too.  I just wonder if it's my sinuses or something more.  I have never felt this bad before.... Just weird and unlike I've ever felt before.
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i agree with you. the awakening of the kundalini energy will cause all of these terrible things. i wish people were more open to this perspective. western medicine has far fewer answers than they'd like you to think. this perspective truly changed my entire life.

<3
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these are the symptoms of a broken heart.

all of us think too much. far too much of our awareness is bound up in our thoughts, our brain organ. but it is through the heart that we connect with the world.

i bet some of you noticed that when you're doing something really exciting or fun, you forget about these symptoms, right? sometimes anyway. other times the anxiety is too great it persists, and poisons yet another experience.

i know this isn't a medical answer, but look at the posts: years and years of doctors and their medicines and machines have tried to solve this weird, terrifying disease, and have failed. haven't they? has anyone been truly cured?

no. doesn't look like it. we are conditioned to accept the medical answer, and to dismiss the mystical one. but just for once, for your own sake, try opening up to a somewhat magical perspective of the nature of illness.

restore the heart. that's what i can say now. restore the heart. its full of pain, its broken. we have retreated into our brains, full of thoughts, mental conditions, patterned energy--this is the ego. it protects us from pain by condemning all that has hurt us. but if we go on without stopping, we condemn the entire world, and then we are here.

our eyes can't focus. our ears ring. we feel dizzy, spaces out, disconnected from people and things. for me:

~ i see impressions of things, like outlines, after i look away from them.
~ my ears ring all the time. all the time.
~ my eyes haven't been able to focus properly on an object for 4 years.
~ there is a haze in front of my eyes. i can see it most at night, and my night vision is really bad these days.
~ bright lights are too much for me.
~ patterns seem to move. like looking at a bunch of lines, they like shift and jump around it makes me dizzy.
~ when i watch videos, the scene often skips when the camera is panning, almost the its really low frame rate. but its not. its just me.
~ and like all of you, I'm technically perfectly healthy. ha!

if this sounds like you, give it a shot. stop worrying about your eyes for a bit. thank them. tell your eyes you love them, and that you're sorry for stressing them out so hard. then ask your heart what is wrong. relax, take calm breaths, move your awareness to the center of your chest. and listen. i promise it will speak to you. listen.

i know this is some crazy new age wtf ********. but i've been on this journey every day for over four years. its been terrifying, confusing, and sometimes i felt suicidal and crazy because no one knew what the **** i was talking about! its frustrating right? It has been a ride that has changed my life. I don't say these weird things lightly. the world is far more magical, WE are far more powerful and mysterious that you can imagine.

so just try it. this isn't about your eyes. this is about your heart.

i have this blog too ill write more about this on there soon

www.thedoorofbliss.wordpress.com

i love you all. so much. you're so brave to hang in there. this is a really scary thing to go through. but there is hope. no, more than that. there is certainty that this will pass. it all depends on you~

the cure for this is within. <3
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I challenge each and every one of you to leave home at 8 in the morning, and go wherever your subconscious mind takes you.. dont let your ego talk you out of ''pointless'' or ''wasteful'' thing, just explore until the sun goes down.

I dare you to do this, and not experience a complete relief of your condition.
Be warned however: upon arrival at your residence, the clarity will once again be ripped from your being.

It's all biology.

We weren't meant to live in pathetic little cubicles, filled with horrible air, eating trash and mindlessly gazing at a damned screen.. I know you will think otherwise, or claim ''it's not like that''.. but it is.

This world of ours isn't biological, it's a death trap.

Ever seen a monkey on a hillside in an african reserve? I bet you have, now think of the monkey you saw living in a concrete zoo.. starting to make sense?

Either live in the wild, or suck it up and ride it out soldier.
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Please,.. did you ever find out what was causing your problems,.. please i am desperate!!!! I have been having the same symptoms for a year
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So sorry to bother you,.. but did you ever find a solution to your problem ? I am having the same thing you guys describe, and its so frustrating coz no doctors can figure it out  
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So sorry to bother you,.. but did you ever find a solution to your problem ? I am having the same thing you guys describe, and its so frustrating coz no doctors can figure it out  
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It will pass I had mono years ago it does stay in your system for life but mine took a month to go away and I seperated myself from my kids it was so hard but I feared them getting it. I'm going to look into some of these things people are pesting as I've had my head issues for 5 years and thought was from my car accidents but so bad now I too think negative and don't feel safe going anywhere alone. Not safe for others and I get lost in my head trying to cook or anything. Be strong friend.
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Been having the same for a year now, It's only getting worse.
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I wanna help I'm going throw something like this to but I'm 17and it dosen5 happen often I don't like it I kinda herts but not really I don't know why I get tierd sleepy dizzy confused my walking is poor and my speech bad I fill sick but know one knows about it is this the same thing I wish I could help u its aholy happening to me right now please what should I do
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I know your post was in 2010...It is now 2015 and I hope you can read this!....I am also out here suffering from the same issues. I have been dealing with symptoms like this since I was a teenager ..and I am now 35 years old!.....I have had tests done in the past..to no avail.....some of my symptoms are confusion, memory loss, blurred vision , dizziness , nausea from time to time, weird unexplained shooting pains in all different spots ..and definitely around my head, all kinds of pressure headaches. I am off balance when walking or moving quickly at work. I have had sinus problems my whole life!...I cannot focus on new things very well...reading, learning etc.  I cannot focus correctly on moving objects. I have a sense of unreality cause of this.  I though I did this to myself cause of how I lived my life when I was young. These problems led to alcohol abuse also. So just know your not alone!!..This is the first time I'm reading any of these posts and it really makes me feel better knowing I'm not the only one out there. And yes pretty much everyone thinks I'm nuts!...I have just learned to live with this thus far. But I Really had enough!!...My life is passing me by. I have a ton of talent , but I'm not able to use it to it's full extent because of these problems....If anyone has the answer Please let me know!!...All other comments are from a few years back so I hope some of you have found the answer and see this post!!..Thank you!!!!   Danny
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