I hope someone, especially a doctor, could give me some ideas on what might be going on with my 43 year-old husband. I was just told less then a month ago that for many years, he periodically gets these sudden quick blackouts that last for about a second. He says there's a very brief moment of missing time, and he almost passes out but it happens so fast that he can catch himself and he feels very dizzy right after. I had never noticed it, but it's happenning more often now and I have witnessed a few recently. At first when he told me, I thought they might be absense seizures, but now that I've seen I really don't think they are. Besides this, he's often fatigued, wakes up with horrible headaches with pain in the back of his head and neck, he's having dizziness and balance problems, there are times when he has "kaleidoscope" vision and sometimes when reading his eyes have a rapid back and forth movement. He is also having episodes of weakness and numbness in his arms. I think what he has is more then just a simple migraine, as the headache seems to be every day now. He's had the pains in the back of his head since he was a child, it has just gotten worse.
Somebody please help!