Dizziness, fatigue, insomina - brain cancer?

[chesteadman]

I have been experiencing some scary symptoms for several weeks now. I've seen two different doctors, the first one twice a week apart. The first gave me Ativan for managing anxiety. The second has gone along with that original diagnosis and also said that my symptoms could be from allergies, recommending Claritin in the morning and Zantac and Benadryl at night to deal with my sleeping disturbances. In addition, if these didn't work, he gave me Lexapro to deal with anxiety.

On to the symptoms:

It all started with a feeling of dizziness, almost lightheadedness. It wasn't the kind of dizziness that would make me fall; it was maybe more like disorientation.

Anyway, it has progressed. This original symptoms continued when I tried to sleep. I would have a hard time falling asleep and then would wake up several times in the night, sometimes panicked. Also, sometimes as I was falling asleep, I would jerk and wake myself up; I would also be scared because this seemed like something that shouldn't happen. It would take me a long time to get back to sleep when I woke up in the middle of the night.

New symptoms include feeling drowsy during the day, like the feeling one gets when just waking up except for a long time. This was sometimes accompanied by some big amounts of yawning. Also, this drowsiness combined with/caused a kind of brain fog, a feeling of detachment from everything around me that made it hard to focus.

Sometimes it feels like there's pressure in my sinuses, sometimes in the top of my head; sometimes the pressure is on the left or right side of my head, sort of a headache.

Finally, sometimes I shake, sometimes different muscles scattered around my body twitch a little (fasciculations).

I must add that there have been days when I have felt almost normal, and some days where I have felt pretty good most of the time.

I started taking the Lexapro yesterday, 5 mg a day. Oddly enough, I have started to feel hopeless and emotionally blunted over about that same period of time.

This is affecting my ability to do my work properly; I'm 20 years old, living with my parents for the summer. My parents are unmoved by my symptoms and tell me to try to overcome it, but it's hard when I am worried I might have a brain tumor. I haven't wanted to go to work, and I just don't feel like myself.

Also, I get an extremely tired feeling but unable to sleep due to dizziness. Another bad symptom; I haven't gotten a good night of sleep in a long time.

Finally, I just have a general feeling of ill health.

I'm worried that this could be a brain tumor, though everyone around me insists it's just anxiety (mixed with allergies?) I'm scared and I don't feel good at all. What should I do?

[Tu3sdy]

I also have been feeling the same symptoms of light headed, dizzy, tired, headache, and also have a earache, but not like any earache the side of my face hurts too. My headache is only on the side where my ear is that hurts. But unlike any of the comments above I don't have any problems sleeping or falling asleep. I also have normal days and feel great, and my symptoms don't last all day. My biggest thought was I have anemia because I feel cold, tired, and have no energy but I don't feel this way all the time. so I am at a complete loss as to what is wrong with me. if anyone has any helpful thoughts please do post them thank you!

[Linus17]

Now I am afraid. Last year my wife and I were having lunch at a restaurant, and while waiting for out food to arrive it was as if someone had begun to lift my chair from the right side, causing me to "compensate" by leaning to my left. Since we reside in California I just assumed that it was yet another weird earthquake. After about 5 seconds everything was normal. i asked my wife if she felt that. She said, "felt what?". It was like some... unseen force had shifted all of my weight to my left side. However, a few days ago I was walking to my apartment complex, and right after I turned the corner to enter, I got the same sensation again, but this time it was strong enough to cause me to simply... lie down on the ground! I couldn't stand up! It was like something was pulling me down and to the left. I felt... heavy! After about 20 seconds I felt better, got up, and went inside.
I am a 48-year-old male, and nothing... NOTHING like this has EVER happened to me before, and although I have read articles about Syncope, Vertigo, and Inner-Ear Infections it doesn't quite seem like these conditions would be a good fit for what I have experienced. Before I make an appointment with my Doctor, I just wanted to know if anyone else out there has experiences anything like this before?

[steveunified]

Very similar to most of these. My top of my head will hurt from time to time. Sinus pressure without the discomfort. Yawning in business meeting during the day. Feel so sleepy I want to lay down. At night or in the morning I have dry mouth. I have a pain in the left side of my chest that is near the surface not deep in my chest. The doctors thought it was a pulled muscle but it has lasted for 6 months. I have been eating healthier and sometimes, when I don't feel well, if I eat  something crappy I feel better. I have been to the doctors and they aren't sure what is going on. Today I was so dizzy I had to sit down. like some of the other posts, I have good days and bad, I can sometimes do physical activity and it feels good and other times I think I shouldn't move or I will collapse. I live in a basement apartment. When I vacationed upstate NY for 2 weeks it seems to subside.

[beetlebooper]

I have vertigo. I don't have dizzy spells. I can be laying down flat in bed and things start spinning and moving. I also have internal tremors.RLS is painful. I don't sleep well at night because the tremors wake me up. I cannot make any commetments because I am so fatigued. I was a very active perdon now I have no srenght to do anything. I hope somebody knows whats wrong.

[LawnCare]

I just read your post and recognize some of your symptoms as my own. For almost four weeks I have experienced dizziness; however, it's not to the point that I can't walk. I've also had a slight headache but OTC meds took care of it. The ear pressure you mentioned has been my consistent complaint. I saw my ENT (I am a chronic sinusitis sufferer)  who said there's no fluid in my ears nor any sign of infection. My next step is to see my primary care doctor. I am wondering what were the results of your scans and/or MRI.  Thanks for sharing and I hope all is well with your health.

[DarkLink86]

I have the exact same thing! I have a vision test( I cannot see things up close anymore) and an mri scheduled next month. It feels like I am drunk but I don't drink. I hope all works out for you.