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?

[edlogic]

i have been having the same symptoms for over a month - dizziness - fatigue - get very tired and sleepy suddenly - trouble breathing and anxiety etc  - also sleep for two hours then wake up with a sudden jerk as if startled -
i have considered the recent news about arsenic in rice and during the past year or so - in order to try to help my digestive problems i have been eating a lot of rice - a cup a day quite often - i am thinking it is arsenic poisoning - i looked up the way to help and it looks like chelation and detox are possible

http://www.ehow.com/how_5008712_detox-arsenic-body.html

[fallenangel0156]

I have the exact same symptoms and more , I have now been in bed because of these symptoms for over a month, I have been to the emergency room 4 times, once by ambulance and they have told me every time that it is severe anxiety. I havent got to see my doctor yet because he is booked. I finally have an appointment in a week from now. I have taken all the medications that they have given me and nothing has worked...Adarax 50 mgs, flexaril 10 mgs, zoloft 25 and 50 mgs, and lorazepam, so if it is anxiety, its a super duper form that medication wont fix lol......I hope you get to feeling better

[daisydo533]

Hi Lyn242,

I think you may be suffering from anxiety, it comes in all forms including head pain. I suffer from it myself and went round in circles trying to find out what it was. Take a look at the anxietycentre.com they have a lot of useful information and I found myself ticking off a list of symptons. However I did worry myself into a frenzy about it and convinced myself something serious was wrong so I had an MRI scan and saw a neurologist, both of which were clear and after that my symptons started to wear off but flair up when I am stressed or tired but not to the same extent. It is worth looking in to anything that is worrying you or that you are stressed about this could be not helping your symptons. I myself had severe head pains, a wooshing sensation in my head, TMJ of the jaw, felt light headed and dizzy, heart palpitations, shivering muscles, and feeling like I was being pushed down from above all with severe fatigue. I also suffer from low blood pressure which doesnt help.

I think if you are worried you should get it checked out because the worry can make the symptons worse then once you are reassured it is nothing sinister then you can probably put it sown to anxiety. It is hard to explain to other people because you look fine on the outside.

Take care and think positive there is an answer out there.

[Lyn242]

My symptoms are pretty similar to some mentioned above. In January while doing a little shopping, I felt light headed. I put my items back and went into my car to sit for awhile. While there, my heart raced to the point where I wanted to throw up. My mouth was so dry I could not swallow. I could barely breathe. Finally, the ambulance came, administered oxygen, and by the time I got to the hospital, I was fine. I was told that I had anxiety and was prescribed Ativan.

Since then, I have been Experiencing horrible pain to the right side of my head. It lasts about ten seconds and then goes away but i have them everyday. That is usually followed by dizziness. Can someone please help me get some answers?

[Lindseyhopes]

I have all the same simtoms and I'm 13. It's getting very annoying. Resently a close friend of mine who is really close lost there father. Yes I'm very stressed and my mother will not take me to my doctor. Is this really serious

[ballache001]

i get thats rining in the ears too, spells, like if you had been slapped in the ear that bell noise. and the ballance thing is just a daily experience now, has been for over a year. very worrying.Maybe stress is the lowest common denominator here. but ive had stress before and its never effected me like this.