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last week i wound up on the bathroom floor shacking uncontrollable for i think 30 minutes maybe longer?? 45?? idk maybe it just felt like that (was in the shower).. i then forced myself out of the shower to the towel from dry heaving and nausea.
daily symptoms are...
-server headaches almost constant
-head pains are some times sharp in a certain spot in my head (not daily)
-server nausea... no vomiting rarely do i dry heave
-loss of memory
-double vision
-floaters flashes and spots in vision
-strobe light like vision
-very rarely noticeable hard to describe "thing" in the center of my vision.. it moves and is dark
-grainy vision (best describes)
-recurring low grade fevers of 99.something (don't think they are daily i don't check)
-hearing problems... i talk really quiet because i feel like i am talking loud
-decreased sensation of upper right leg mainly you can touch it very lightly and i might not even feel it
-weakness in body
-clumsiness (i used to be a dancer so this isn't usual)
-hand tremors some times
-i get these head rushes sometimes that leave me extra dizzy, more than usual and it makes this loud rushing noise with it. i have to lean up against the wall or lay down
-neck pains and stiffness
-pupils randomly dilate
-pupils have in the past dilated and pin pointed back and forth (not daily)
-confusion
- extremely low blood pressure
- lethargic behavior for two years
- feelings of euphoria
- anxiety
-body tingling

i don't do drugs and i drink twice a month if that. no other tests have been ran just an EEG everything looked fine but my adviser (case manager) at the traumatic brain injury place i have gone to several times told me that a person can come back with a normal scan and it doesn't mean the EEG is correct. the EEG was done 2 years ago when symptoms weren't bad as well. my adviser also told me that my symptoms do not match with the TBI i had. TBI symptoms improve over the years not worsen. The cause of the TBI's three years ago were from passing out... I didn't just pass out though. It was weird I collapsed passed out cold than got up like nothing happen seconds later than would collapse again. happens about four times. My grandmother probably doesn't have much longer to live she suffers from Grand Mal Seizures.

when i did check my blood pressure it got to be as low as
80 mmHg systolic
44 mmHg diastolic
56 pluse/min

it is currently as of now
95 mmHg
68 mmHg
85 pulse/min

my limbs turn purple a lot because of low blood pressure

is this a brain tumor?? i guess i just want a medical professional on here to tell me from a scale from 1-10 how serious this is. I live in the US but have duel citizenship (canada). I dont qualify for medical insurance here in the US. I don't have anything tieing me down here but moving intimidates me... i have family here. i don't know anyone in Canada but i would make the move if i am looking at thousands in medical bills here. so if a medical professional could just tell me if its time for me to jump the boarder.
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351246 tn?1379682132
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Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
Apart from anxiety and panic disorder, increased sensitivity to sound is seen in migraine headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, TMJ disorders, Lyme’s disease, post traumatic stress disorder, and ear damage by toxins and medications.
Since you have nausea, headaches, mild rise of temperatures and vision problems, it is probably migraines.
If the episode was a non epileptic seizure, then it can be due to low sodium or blood sugar. Sleep disorders and benign positional vertigo can also cause dizziness, nausea, vision and hearing problems and seizures.
Hence all these conditions will need to be ruled out one by one.
Since I cannot examine you and know other related conditions you may be having, nor is a detailed history possible on net, I have listed the various possibilities that should be looked into. Take care!
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I also agree that you need to go back to your doctor and have additional testing done.  Especially with your family history of seizures, that possibility needs to be looked into further.  Just because you had an EEG that didn't show any seizure activity, it doesn't mean you don't have them.  It only means you didn't have any while thye were doing the test.  You may need to have a 24 hour EEG done, where they monitor you for a full 24 hours and see if there is any seizure activity.  You also said that your EEG was done two years ago and it was when your symptoms were not as severe as they are now.  That, in itself, is reason enough to have it redone.

A couple of questions I do have, though, is when you said last week you wound up on the floor shaking for 30-45 minutes.

a) How do you know you were shaking - do you remember falling and shaking or did someone else find you and tell you you had been shaking?

b) Were you conscious throughout this period of time?

c) Did you have any loss of bladder or bowel control during this episode?

These questions are pretty important and something that your doctor will probably ask also.  The answers to them can help them determine if this actually is seizure activity or if it might be related to your low blood pressure or if something completely different is going on.  If you actually remember yourself shaking, were conscious during the episode and didn't have any loss of bladder and/or bowel control during it, it probably wasn't a grand mal seizure.  I'm not a doctor, but I do have a couple of friends who have seizures (grand mal and one has petite mal), so I'm a little familiar with them.

Are you on any medication, especially for your low blood pressure or any special diet for it (increased sodium intake, etc.)?

In addition to having another EEG done, I also agree with Creampuffy that you should have a MRI or CT scan done.

Best of luck and please keep us posted on how you're doing and what they determine is going on.
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1653691 tn?1304459879
I am not a doctor mallory, but I can tell that your symptoms are definitely not normal. Go back to your doctor and have a MRI or a CT scan done.  You could be having similar problems  to your grandmother's or something else such as an aneurysm developing.
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