Hello,
I'm a healthy 22 yr. old male and for the past year and a half I have been having overwhelmingly painful headaches, which effect my job, life, etc. I have tried many meds to cure this, however the only thing that will mask them are 10mg. pain pills.
About two months ago I started getting these very abnormal attacks. 1st my face would go numb and tingle, I would feel very dizzy, it would feel like I had a vibrator throughout my bone structure, my hands would curl up and I would lose control of thought and speach. I knew what I wanted to say, but it would come out wrong and confused like. These generally last ranging from 30 min. to 2 hours.
I have had 6 of these in the past month and they are getting much worse. Now my face is pulling to the left side, confusion, speach, everything is getting much, much worse and I'm very scared.. I have been to the ER 3 times and the past ride I almost broke my mom's dash from a very seriouse heart palpitation. skipped beats etc..
I have been jumping in and out of the medical hoops with a heart echo, portable EKG, CT scan, lot's of blood work, MRI and I am currently wearing a portable (3 day) EEG.. They haven't found anything yet, but I thought it was a stroke from the first attack and i'm scared I will be stuck like this.
They temporarily don't want me to drive or work until they figure this out. They think it is siezures, but I think it is a stroke.