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Please help! Unvolutary movements ect.
Hi,
I've posted this for the 3rd time now and nobody has replied to it as of yet. Please will somebody read this! PLEASE GIVE ADVICE IT WILL BE APPRECIATED!
This is gonna be a bit of a long thread, but I could really do with someones opinion on whats going on.
I'm female, 21 years old, and have had progressive symptoms over the past 2 1/2 - 3 years. I'm here not looking for a diagnosis, but simply scouting for some information since my doctors haven't really done much for me during the above stated time period.
As far as I'm aware, nothing which is about to be mentioned concerning my symptoms exist in my family.
During the 2 1/2 - 3 years time period, I've been being unsuccessfully treated for "migraine" headache. I've been tried on a range of triptyline tablets of different doses (which did nothing but make me grouchy), migard (which did nothing but increase body sensations and feeling faint), paracetamol, codeine (made me feel light headed), aspirin and dozens more over the counter pain relief. I can't try out beta-blockers due to my asthma, which were the last resort before trying a totally different range of tablets. I've recently had the depo contraceptive injection so I can try out some new medication, which took me by surprise, since they're anti-epileptics (seriously, for a headache?) I can't remember what the name is of this new medication, as I don't have the labelled box since I don’t start it 'til next week.
I have been diagnosed with asthma since being a child, and around 2 1/2 years ago with curvature of the spine.
...I and my twin Brother was born prematurely weighing no more than a couple small bags of sugar, and I was on life support for a good while after birth. (it might be worth mentioning)
History: - aged 14, I passed out at school. I had sustained quite a bang to my head. I remember feeling dizzy and "strange", and it was like I'd suddenly lost all muscle tone and I could see from my eyes that I was falling towards the floor.
I felt quite a bang on my head from falling into the counter, which had knocked me unconscious. I was out cold for 10 minutes I was told.
Another time, less than a year later I lost consciousness again with no warning before hand (sensations, etc) whilst I was sat down in a room full of people, but no one had noticed that I'd passed out so I don't know how long I was out for. I came back around and noticed I had lost bladder control whilst I was passed out, which was rather embarrassing.
During my teen years, I passed out almost every time I'd come on my periods, but I've always put it down to the severe abdominal pain and high temperature.
At the age of 18, I started getting bad headaches with dizziness, weird sounds in my ears but mostly ringing, earaches, and feeling faint which would put me on edge and make me feel stressed and nervous because it was making me feel unwell and for that reason, I got dismissed with anxiety. I then learned to deal with the stress and nervousness, which I did successfully.
Around 6 months later, I got a new headache, I mean, the first headache I was getting was bad, but this was on a whole new level and I couldn’t take the pain. I was actually shouting in agony with it whilst clenching my head with my arms curled round it and I was loosing seconds here and there where I think I was blacking out. I couldn’t take it and asked for a ride to A&E. In the car, I was getting a fuzzy/static like cold sensation building up in the back of my head like pressure and then it would just shoot down my spine causing my shoulders the violently jerk and my legs to stretch outwards in front of me. It happened around 3 times. I’d got in the hospital, and was in the waiting room and could feel that feeling in the back of my head building up again. It shot down my spine again, but this time it had pulled my head backward, legs outwards, shoulders violently jerking and felt my eyes rolling in to the back of my head. I’m not sure if I’d lost conscious after my eyes rolled or not. But this kept happening with a rough 5 minute gap in-between each ‘episode’, and it was going on since entering the building ‘til just before being seen 45 mins later by a Doctor! :-/ I got told to lye down for a moment and someone will be back to see me. Someone did come back to see me, but only to give me some paracetamol. I saw my Doctor a couple days later, didn’t really let me finish telling him what had happened at A&E, and sorta butted in and said “it wasn’t a seizure”, which was the closest to an answer I got to what had happened. A couple more months had passed and I then had a couple month gap where my headaches were mild enough to not really bother about.
The headaches seem to have come back with a vengeance after that gap.
Over these past couple of months I’ve been experiencing weird “episodes”. Muscles keep twitching allover including my face. They are always there at some point when I’m in bed trying to get sleep but do also happen during the day. I’ve had one episode where my arm involuntary flug outwards. At the same time my arm flung outwards, I felt an intense ‘shock-like’ feeling at the back of my head, as if someone had put a stun gun on me. I’ve had the full limb flinging jerks dotted out over the past from being young but without the head pain. My eye left eye seems to turn inwards which interrupts my focus. I tend to stare in to space in my own little world so to speak when that happens with my eye. I get rising feeling in my stomach sometimes with the muscles twitches along with rarely involuntary laughter or fear and occasional tingling sensations. Weakness, mostly L sided. Purple sparks in vision. Pain behind L eye. Involuntary head bobbing (as if saying yes or no).
I got sent to A&E around the time these twitches started happening incase I had a TIA, because the L side of my face had partially lost it’s muscle tone and upon examination, I’d also had slight L sided limb weakness. I got sent home cos it was unlikely that I’d had one. it happened again during one of these ‘twitching episodes’ and it felt like it was my facial muscle pulling down on my face.
Whilst Sleeping: - I’ve been told by a sleeping partner that I was laid on my side, I’d grabbed a hold of him in my and my leg was raised twitching away.
Another time I was in bed, trying to get to sleep but I was feeling ‘off’ so I was having difficulties trying to sleep. I remember looking at the clock, the time was half past, I closed my eyes and I think I’d blacked out. I had a really vivid dream that I got freaked out from my sleep, woke up grabbing my partner shaking him asking “what’s going on”. Getting louder and louder every time I asked it and I’d lost complete muscle tone in my tongue and L side of face and I was freaking out and thrashing my limbs around. I coulda swore I woke up for a split second during the dream clenching my teeth and then slipped back in to the dream where I was screaming and thrashing around. I then opened my eyes, woke up fully, my shoulders were in agony and only 5 mins had passed on the clock in time. Is it normal to dream the second you fall a sleep, and it only last 5 mins then you’re back to being fully awake and alert? The dream thing may sound a bit weird but it freaked me out so I thought I’d best mention it!
I also woke up 2 days ago after having a short nap due to terrible headache. I woke up in agony in my limbs and shoulders (mostley L shoulder and L arm) and had bruised the back of my hand quite abdly. I'm still in pain from these aches and it's restricting my movement. 10 mins after waking, I'd also lost memory, in which I was looking for my phone which I had hold of just after waking, and found it upstairs in my bedroom with no memory of going upstairs at all which really confused me! Any ideas on this?
If anyone has any ideas, please write them down and they will be very much appreciated!!
I've posted this for the 3rd time now and nobody has replied to it as of yet. Please will somebody read this! PLEASE GIVE ADVICE IT WILL BE APPRECIATED!
This is gonna be a bit of a long thread, but I could really do with someones opinion on whats going on.
I'm female, 21 years old, and have had progressive symptoms over the past 2 1/2 - 3 years. I'm here not looking for a diagnosis, but simply scouting for some information since my doctors haven't really done much for me during the above stated time period.
As far as I'm aware, nothing which is about to be mentioned concerning my symptoms exist in my family.
During the 2 1/2 - 3 years time period, I've been being unsuccessfully treated for "migraine" headache. I've been tried on a range of triptyline tablets of different doses (which did nothing but make me grouchy), migard (which did nothing but increase body sensations and feeling faint), paracetamol, codeine (made me feel light headed), aspirin and dozens more over the counter pain relief. I can't try out beta-blockers due to my asthma, which were the last resort before trying a totally different range of tablets. I've recently had the depo contraceptive injection so I can try out some new medication, which took me by surprise, since they're anti-epileptics (seriously, for a headache?) I can't remember what the name is of this new medication, as I don't have the labelled box since I don’t start it 'til next week.
I have been diagnosed with asthma since being a child, and around 2 1/2 years ago with curvature of the spine.
...I and my twin Brother was born prematurely weighing no more than a couple small bags of sugar, and I was on life support for a good while after birth. (it might be worth mentioning)
History: - aged 14, I passed out at school. I had sustained quite a bang to my head. I remember feeling dizzy and "strange", and it was like I'd suddenly lost all muscle tone and I could see from my eyes that I was falling towards the floor.
I felt quite a bang on my head from falling into the counter, which had knocked me unconscious. I was out cold for 10 minutes I was told.
Another time, less than a year later I lost consciousness again with no warning before hand (sensations, etc) whilst I was sat down in a room full of people, but no one had noticed that I'd passed out so I don't know how long I was out for. I came back around and noticed I had lost bladder control whilst I was passed out, which was rather embarrassing.
During my teen years, I passed out almost every time I'd come on my periods, but I've always put it down to the severe abdominal pain and high temperature.
At the age of 18, I started getting bad headaches with dizziness, weird sounds in my ears but mostly ringing, earaches, and feeling faint which would put me on edge and make me feel stressed and nervous because it was making me feel unwell and for that reason, I got dismissed with anxiety. I then learned to deal with the stress and nervousness, which I did successfully.
Around 6 months later, I got a new headache, I mean, the first headache I was getting was bad, but this was on a whole new level and I couldn’t take the pain. I was actually shouting in agony with it whilst clenching my head with my arms curled round it and I was loosing seconds here and there where I think I was blacking out. I couldn’t take it and asked for a ride to A&E. In the car, I was getting a fuzzy/static like cold sensation building up in the back of my head like pressure and then it would just shoot down my spine causing my shoulders the violently jerk and my legs to stretch outwards in front of me. It happened around 3 times. I’d got in the hospital, and was in the waiting room and could feel that feeling in the back of my head building up again. It shot down my spine again, but this time it had pulled my head backward, legs outwards, shoulders violently jerking and felt my eyes rolling in to the back of my head. I’m not sure if I’d lost conscious after my eyes rolled or not. But this kept happening with a rough 5 minute gap in-between each ‘episode’, and it was going on since entering the building ‘til just before being seen 45 mins later by a Doctor! :-/ I got told to lye down for a moment and someone will be back to see me. Someone did come back to see me, but only to give me some paracetamol. I saw my Doctor a couple days later, didn’t really let me finish telling him what had happened at A&E, and sorta butted in and said “it wasn’t a seizure”, which was the closest to an answer I got to what had happened. A couple more months had passed and I then had a couple month gap where my headaches were mild enough to not really bother about.
The headaches seem to have come back with a vengeance after that gap.
Over these past couple of months I’ve been experiencing weird “episodes”. Muscles keep twitching allover including my face. They are always there at some point when I’m in bed trying to get sleep but do also happen during the day. I’ve had one episode where my arm involuntary flug outwards. At the same time my arm flung outwards, I felt an intense ‘shock-like’ feeling at the back of my head, as if someone had put a stun gun on me. I’ve had the full limb flinging jerks dotted out over the past from being young but without the head pain. My eye left eye seems to turn inwards which interrupts my focus. I tend to stare in to space in my own little world so to speak when that happens with my eye. I get rising feeling in my stomach sometimes with the muscles twitches along with rarely involuntary laughter or fear and occasional tingling sensations. Weakness, mostly L sided. Purple sparks in vision. Pain behind L eye. Involuntary head bobbing (as if saying yes or no).
I got sent to A&E around the time these twitches started happening incase I had a TIA, because the L side of my face had partially lost it’s muscle tone and upon examination, I’d also had slight L sided limb weakness. I got sent home cos it was unlikely that I’d had one. it happened again during one of these ‘twitching episodes’ and it felt like it was my facial muscle pulling down on my face.
Whilst Sleeping: - I’ve been told by a sleeping partner that I was laid on my side, I’d grabbed a hold of him in my and my leg was raised twitching away.
Another time I was in bed, trying to get to sleep but I was feeling ‘off’ so I was having difficulties trying to sleep. I remember looking at the clock, the time was half past, I closed my eyes and I think I’d blacked out. I had a really vivid dream that I got freaked out from my sleep, woke up grabbing my partner shaking him asking “what’s going on”. Getting louder and louder every time I asked it and I’d lost complete muscle tone in my tongue and L side of face and I was freaking out and thrashing my limbs around. I coulda swore I woke up for a split second during the dream clenching my teeth and then slipped back in to the dream where I was screaming and thrashing around. I then opened my eyes, woke up fully, my shoulders were in agony and only 5 mins had passed on the clock in time. Is it normal to dream the second you fall a sleep, and it only last 5 mins then you’re back to being fully awake and alert? The dream thing may sound a bit weird but it freaked me out so I thought I’d best mention it!
I also woke up 2 days ago after having a short nap due to terrible headache. I woke up in agony in my limbs and shoulders (mostley L shoulder and L arm) and had bruised the back of my hand quite abdly. I'm still in pain from these aches and it's restricting my movement. 10 mins after waking, I'd also lost memory, in which I was looking for my phone which I had hold of just after waking, and found it upstairs in my bedroom with no memory of going upstairs at all which really confused me! Any ideas on this?
If anyone has any ideas, please write them down and they will be very much appreciated!!
I agree with JJ, an MRI of both the brain and cervical spinal cord would rule out a lot of potential causes. I am surprised you haven't been sent to a neurologist/told to get an MRI, usually headaches that don't respond to conventional treatment (ie over the counter NSAIDS) or are very severe are a warning sign for a more troubling underlying cause. I would go get that MRI pronto, especially since these episodes are affecting your memory.
Best of luck!
Best of luck!
I'm sorry you dont have answers for whats happening to you, i dont really know whats going on but i thought i should say that you need some tests, sorry if you've had them already but you dont mention any in your post.
MRI to see if there is anything going on in your spine and brain
EEG or is it EKG (sorry cant recall) to see if your having epileptic fits whilst your awake and then a sleep study to see if your having fits in your sleep.
If your on medication it would be a good idea to check out any side affects listed for them and also if you havent had a full blood work, it would be a good idea to get that done too. I think its possible that your problems could be migraine but i'm not a dr and all i know about migraine is other peoples stories. At the moment thats the only dx you know so it would be worth while reading everything you can about migraine, it might be helpful in at least getting more understanding on what can happen, types and if nothing else it may point you in another direction.
Sorry i couldnt be of more help, keep your chin up!
Cheers..........JJ
MRI to see if there is anything going on in your spine and brain
EEG or is it EKG (sorry cant recall) to see if your having epileptic fits whilst your awake and then a sleep study to see if your having fits in your sleep.
If your on medication it would be a good idea to check out any side affects listed for them and also if you havent had a full blood work, it would be a good idea to get that done too. I think its possible that your problems could be migraine but i'm not a dr and all i know about migraine is other peoples stories. At the moment thats the only dx you know so it would be worth while reading everything you can about migraine, it might be helpful in at least getting more understanding on what can happen, types and if nothing else it may point you in another direction.
Sorry i couldnt be of more help, keep your chin up!
Cheers..........JJ
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