Many Symptoms possibly Neurological??

[cloudnyn3]

I originally posted this in the undiagnosed area but now I've started having a new symptom which started on wednesday, i was in the store and I really didn't realize this but I was walking and it felt as if the floor was slanted upward or as if I was leaning forward, it stopped after about 10 seconds but I've been having random bouts of this all weekend where I feel like I'm falling forward, its not like vertigo where its spinning just like gravity is shifting and I'm falling forward or to the side or something like that =/

Ok so its been almost 11 weeks that I've been having problems
It started when I was sitting in class and it felt liek my brain shutoff for like 2 or 3 seconds and I didn't realize what was happening until I started coming to, it took me a few seconds to realize where I was or what was going on too.
After that I felt very sick for about 1 day and was fine except that I felt very very lightheaded and just out of it and thats remained so since this happened. I've noticed that I"ve become very easily fatigued and generally am always tired and unable to do any physical activity as it drains me out. I'd say about about two weeks into it was when I realized i was having problems physically. Ever since this episode in class its been the same stuff.

My doctor has run a lipid test, platelet count, hepatic function test, metabolic panel, and thryoid test and all returned perfectly as they should.
Righ tnow I'm wasting money so if anyone can please give me an idea or point me in the right direction then I'd really appreciate it thank you.


Here are the symptoms!
1. Lightheaded or foggy headed, it gets to the point of almost passing out if I don't eat every 5 to 6 hours.
2. Constant fatigue and absoutely no tolerance to physical activity.
3. I've had a couple episodes to where I would be sitting there and it was almost as if I had passed out or lost consciousness for just a few seconds but thats only happened maybe 2 or 3 times in the past 2 months
5. This is unusual for me but I gained almost 20Lbs in about 2 months, I never gain wait so its out of the ordinary.
6. If I don't sleep for long periods of time then my body feels worse than it originally did, and I often wake up in my sleep and feel very cunfused and out of it in the head.
7. Sometimes I feel better than other days but generally I feel terrible.
8. I'm not having severe memory problems but it does effect my ability to remember things because it makes me nervous and hard to concentrate. although I can still be alert and to math and things to that effect while this is going on, it just feels like I'm not getting enough oxygen to my brain and like I'm about to pass out, almost like I'm drunk but more organized thoughts.
9. I had an MRI and the results stated I had injured my right lateral ventricle but they said the damage was miniscule.
10 Sometimes and very rarely I get ringing in my ears that is VERY loud to where I cannot hear anything and it slowly tones down over a course of about 15 seconds
11. I've noticed that my immune system is being hindered as whern I get a cold it takes others a few days but me twice as long.
12. At first I had a constant headache and i would have migrane that felt like sinus headaches that were extremely bad, they feel like they are on the inside of my head and go all the way down to my upper neck and make it hurt, and its generally on one side. If I take any pain meds it goes away within the hour though.
13. Sometimes I get sensations of falling in a direction like forward or backward and my balance has been a bit off liek my body doesn't know how to properly keep me from falling over or something. Its not severe but it gets annoying.
14. Sometimes I get joint pain in my legs and feet, its not regular but its not normal for me and I was at one point for a week having shooting pain in the muscles of my leg that lasted maybe 4 seconds and would go away. It has since stopped.



That pretty much covers it so if anyone has any suggestions or anything to offer I'd really appreciate it

[ggreg]

Dear Cloud,
Oooooooops!!!!!  PLEZ IGNORE my paragraph about the "LEFT VENTRICLE" stuff!!!!  Last night I finally got a good night's sleep, and realized this morning you had NOT written "left temporal."  My mind was on neurology which is this forum, and was not on the heart.  An injury to the left ventricle has to do with the heart.  SO SORRY.  Hon, you do not have brain damage, so please do not worry another second about that, if you were.
GG  

[ggreg]

And when I say bring the MRI stuff, I mean bring the actual pictures, you can get them from whomever created the scans or whomever they were forwarded to.  Also, I meant to say a university hospital neuroSURGEON, they are used to seeing the scans and interpreting them as good as any radiologist might.

[ggreg]

I have several thoughts on your symptoms.  I think a visit to an Ear Nose Throat ENT doc might help you, some of your head and neck symptoms sound like an inner ear infection, plus infection can make you feel weak and out of it.  Also, the balance system is part of the inner ear.

A couple self-cure type things that occur to me are (a) eat enough protein and (b) don't overwork your eyes without resting them frequently, use magnifying glasses anytime you feel eye strain.

But there's one part of this whole thing that annoys me, and that's how the report from your MRI reported an injury to your left ventricle, that then characterized it as "miniscule," which that wording sort of dismisses it as an issue.  I'm not a doctor, but I am so sick and tired of radiologists and even physicians minimalizing abnormalities in a person, PARTICULARLY when they have symptoms that MIGHT point to that abnormality being a problem!  I mean, in my layman's lexicon, "injury to left ventricle" means brain damage.  I mean, you come into their office smiling and walking and talking, so they figure if you're not bleeding, hey, you're fine.... NOT.  So, if the ENT comes up clueless and my suggestions don't work, then yup, take the MRI stuff to a university hospital neurologist, ask him for an appointment as a CONSULT only, and just get his feedback on what HE sees.