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
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.
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.