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confusion, panic, dizziness, eyes seem weird
I really need help. I'm 21 yrs old and when i was studying abroad i just felt gradually and gradually worse. Feelings of confusion, panic, easily startled....and just feeling in a fog. I was also very sick with something later on and ever since i feel 20x worse. Now my eyes feel like they are crossed and when i talk to someone and look at them, it seems like my eyes get more and more blurry to where i have to look away. Everything looks dull and it seems like my eyes can't focus to objects correctly. Besides that, i'm always feeling confused and feelings of being in a fog...like everything around me is going on around me while im not there...occasionally i will get a twitch as well. I can't concentrate on anything nor think straight at all... I had a test that said i had mono but a long time ago(7months ago), but all my blood tests/sugar levels are fine according to doc's. Now they are treating for depression and im on wellbutrin. im pretty much at the point where i'm becoming suicidal b/c i can't take this anymore. I used to love to run, read, and do so many things and i can't do anything anymore. i've been like this since march and if i remain like this for much longer i cant take it anymore.....i have job interviews and all sorts of things right now. Somebody help
Check for radiation- emf waves in your home. Using a computer or cordless phone/ cell phone can make it worse. The Lyme encephalitis I experienced recently affected my vision, bad headaches and head pressure and I really thought I was losing my mind. I have difficulty remembering names, directions, and stumble around with ADD-like symptoms. My children said I kept repeating myself. My Naturopathic/ homeopathic Dr was able to detox me and get me functioning again. I still have symptoms but not as severe.
Did anybody get help??? I have had all these same problems for almost 16yrs!! Nothing helps. From Primary Care to Neuro to Psych. to all kinds of different meds and diagnosis. Migraine meds helps the headache some, but not the other symptoms. We can't ALL BE WRONG. Please. I can't even keep a job because of this.
hi im now 24 yrs old. last yr in april i was instructed to go to the hospital by urgent care as they said something was wrong and couldnt do anything for me. at the time i had been sick throwing up and with fever for 4 days. it was hard to lift my head, i barely could and i was sooo dizzy. prior to this, the intense dizziness began the summer of '10 now this occurring beginning of '11. when i went to the hosp they did a ct scan and said they found sumthing and they needed to keep me so the next day they did an mri and found an infarct in the deep white tissue of my brain and the doc told me i had a stroke........ in simpler terms this meant that there was death in some of the tissue and was about 4mm. since then have had dizziness all the time. now i used to get headaches alot before alwys feeling like my brain hurt so i could tell the diff this time and knew i was dizzy. recently this yr, ive been having issues w/finding it hard to breath then my heart pounds and races my right eye shuts and is so hard to control the movement, my right hand, leg and foot feel so dead and my hand and foot on right side are freezing while left side is completely normal except for the shaking. im just trying to figure out what the heck is going on with me, if its a tia or anxiety attack which i first had in oct of 07 til 09 or '10. i know im young so i cant figure out how i had a stroke which was a silent lacunar stroke by the way. sometimes at work, i'll forget what i just asked a customer over the phone after they give me an answer and i'll ask the same thing again or i'll be working on an acct and forget how i got into that part of the screen and cant remember who i was talking to or if i had verified them..........couple nites ago for less than a min i didnt remember how old i was or that i had a kid (shes 3), i think that was the worst for me cuz i couldnt stop crying........nothing makes sense so far except for an extreme amt of stress in my life from '05 until now. any comments or info in reg to this would be much appreciated. p.s. just got out of the hosp yesterday.
Hi everyone. I stumbled across this thread when I was looking at stuff about visual problems I have been having recently and have had SOOOO many of the same symptoms!!
(please bare with me as I have a long story and list of symptoms. I will list symptoms at the end so if you really want to skip everything else just scroll down (: )
I am 20 years old and have been ill in some way for as long as I can remember. When i was around 7 years old i had my first panic attack. I also began losing a lot of energy i had always had, difficulty swallowing, even things that now seem like tics such as scrunching my nose over and over all day every day.
When I was 15 I was diagnosed with major hypothyroidism (before which I had been diagnosed bipolar after suffering from horrible depression when I was in 7th/8th grade) after treatment for hypothyroidism for a while and finding the right dosage, I started feeling so much better! I wasn't tired all the time or dizzy or gaining weight or anything! Then stupid teenage me stopped taking all the meds prescribed to me (also including lamictal and Wellbutrin) if my memory serves me right (which honestly I'm not sure it is because my memory has slowly faded in the past couple years) I was told by my therapist I was better and didn't need meds anymore.
My senior year of high school was when I really started to feel ill again, but new symptoms started arising. I was absent for a majority of the year ad was lucky to even graduate!
The summer after my graduation, i was feeling on top of the world (still not taking meds except vyvanse i had been prescribed towards end of senior year). But When I went off to college I started feeling very ill again. I began sleeping for abnormally long amounts of time. One specific time I slept nearly 24 hours. After one semester away from home, I was forced to move back due to poor decisions I had made.
This is when my previous symptoms became even worse again and developed new symptoms with vision. All over body pains were at an all time high, feeling like I'd be sick or pass out from all the pain. I soon discovered an enlarged "bump" in my neck that caused neck pain. Vision issues around this time included seeing everything that moved as "stop motion" like it wasn't flowing correctly and I began having blurryness in one eye at a time every now and then out of nowhere. In general i began to feel like i was s little old lady on the inside and a 19 year old on the outside. I went to the ER twice in one month once for very sore throat with white spots on tonsils (they did several tests and had NO idea what it was!) and another time for severe pain under rib (which I eventually found out from another doctor that it was due to an abundant amount of backup due to constipation. I had no idea I was constipated as I was pretty regular!) I started trying to take my hypothyroidism meds again but failed at keeping them up as I felt it wasn't working.
Soon after I moved back to where I was born and started to feel a little better. Still had swollen bump in my neck but pain wasn't as bad. Then soon after meeting my boyfriend I had pain again and fatigue and even issues breathing in sleep. I was taken to ER one night when my boyfriend was woken up by me gasping for air (about every 30-60 seconds) and would not breathe otherwise. I was in and out of consciousness and couldn't respond to anyone. The doctors didn't know what caused it but assumed it was maybe just a panic attack. But how can I have a panic attack in my sleep?
Recently this has gotten worse. I wake up several times in a night gasping for air, feeling as though I have stopped breathing in my sleep. Panic attacks have definitely started but end in the same way as previous fit: not breathing for long periods of time, in and out of consciousness, sometimes my body convulses and apparently my eyes roll to the back of my head or eyelids flutter.
Recently I had an MRI focused on pituitary glad to check for prolactinoma and instead found 4mm "something" in my right frontal lobe that I'm going to get checked out with another MRI a week from today,
okay so now that there's an understanding of previous medical history here are the symptoms I have been having that have recently been getting worse and worse over the past 6 months or so (btw I have been back on my hypothyroid meds taking them every day at the same time without fail for several months now and my tsh levels are still high and was prescribed Wellbutrin again but not making ANY difference, in fact I think I feel WORSE since I began taking it)
Symptoms:
Hair loss
Headaches every day (but they are like pressure and only in a few specific spots in my head, lasting a few seconds at a time)
Dizzyness (sometimes with nausea)
Feeling drunk but totally sober
Confusion
Memory fading
Extreme mood swings
Slowed sometimes slurred speech
Elevated tsh levels (last checked around 14)
Hypothyroidism
Hyperprolactinemia
High chloride levels
High potassium levels
Low rbc
High mch
Low neutrophils
High lymphs
Driving down a familiar road or being in a familiar place and suddenly looking/feeling unfamiliar
Many eye floaters
Double vision from time to time
Extreme sensitivity to light, sometimes accompanied by a feeling of my eyes crossing or rolling
Spasms in eyes, eye lids, eyebrows, sometimes cheeks, and other random body muscles
Bone and joint pain especially in hips, knees, wrists, elbows
Exema (I know I didn't spell that right lol)
Tiny red dots covering arms look like tiny blood dots
Unbelievably easy bruising
Chest pain
Heart randomly beats faster/harder
Random feelings of nervousness
Extreme paranoia
Horribly vivid nightmares (I've had for years but recently so much worse)
Pain in breasts and swelling
Joint popping in hips an knees when trying to walk
Intolerance to heat and cold
Chills and night sweats
Increased perspiration
Pain in neck, shoulders, and arms especially when lifting things
Lower back pain
Cramps in muscles, lower abdomin, stomach, and what I think is ovaries and sometimes uterus
Random "asleep" sensation (numbness/tingling) in arms and legs
Cold hands and feet
Feeling cold but feeling warm to the touch
Tops of shins randomly hurt, as do bottom of feet
Strange hiccupburps (I have no idea how to describe any other way)
Itchyness
What looks like a rash from scratching an itch on breasts
Often feeling the need to urinate
Trouble with bowels
Anxiety
Trouble breathing for no apparent reason, sometimes having to yawn a lot to try to take deep breaths
All over body pain doesn't seem to get any relief from any pain meds prescribed or given at ER
Honestly this probably isn't all of the symptoms I have my memory as stated before has been bad lately
I was tested for Lyme disease earlier this week and waiting on results. Can Lyme disease cause abnormalities in brain? I have been having some of the same symptoms since I was very young and remember specific time of having a bug (almost positive it was a tick) literally half sticking out of the same side of my neck where bump has formed, possibly the exact spot now that I think about it.
If it turns out to be Lyme disease that has develope Over the course of about 13 years will it still be treatable?
Thank you for reading and please somebody, anybody can help me understand what is going on???
-Christina
(please bare with me as I have a long story and list of symptoms. I will list symptoms at the end so if you really want to skip everything else just scroll down (: )
I am 20 years old and have been ill in some way for as long as I can remember. When i was around 7 years old i had my first panic attack. I also began losing a lot of energy i had always had, difficulty swallowing, even things that now seem like tics such as scrunching my nose over and over all day every day.
When I was 15 I was diagnosed with major hypothyroidism (before which I had been diagnosed bipolar after suffering from horrible depression when I was in 7th/8th grade) after treatment for hypothyroidism for a while and finding the right dosage, I started feeling so much better! I wasn't tired all the time or dizzy or gaining weight or anything! Then stupid teenage me stopped taking all the meds prescribed to me (also including lamictal and Wellbutrin) if my memory serves me right (which honestly I'm not sure it is because my memory has slowly faded in the past couple years) I was told by my therapist I was better and didn't need meds anymore.
My senior year of high school was when I really started to feel ill again, but new symptoms started arising. I was absent for a majority of the year ad was lucky to even graduate!
The summer after my graduation, i was feeling on top of the world (still not taking meds except vyvanse i had been prescribed towards end of senior year). But When I went off to college I started feeling very ill again. I began sleeping for abnormally long amounts of time. One specific time I slept nearly 24 hours. After one semester away from home, I was forced to move back due to poor decisions I had made.
This is when my previous symptoms became even worse again and developed new symptoms with vision. All over body pains were at an all time high, feeling like I'd be sick or pass out from all the pain. I soon discovered an enlarged "bump" in my neck that caused neck pain. Vision issues around this time included seeing everything that moved as "stop motion" like it wasn't flowing correctly and I began having blurryness in one eye at a time every now and then out of nowhere. In general i began to feel like i was s little old lady on the inside and a 19 year old on the outside. I went to the ER twice in one month once for very sore throat with white spots on tonsils (they did several tests and had NO idea what it was!) and another time for severe pain under rib (which I eventually found out from another doctor that it was due to an abundant amount of backup due to constipation. I had no idea I was constipated as I was pretty regular!) I started trying to take my hypothyroidism meds again but failed at keeping them up as I felt it wasn't working.
Soon after I moved back to where I was born and started to feel a little better. Still had swollen bump in my neck but pain wasn't as bad. Then soon after meeting my boyfriend I had pain again and fatigue and even issues breathing in sleep. I was taken to ER one night when my boyfriend was woken up by me gasping for air (about every 30-60 seconds) and would not breathe otherwise. I was in and out of consciousness and couldn't respond to anyone. The doctors didn't know what caused it but assumed it was maybe just a panic attack. But how can I have a panic attack in my sleep?
Recently this has gotten worse. I wake up several times in a night gasping for air, feeling as though I have stopped breathing in my sleep. Panic attacks have definitely started but end in the same way as previous fit: not breathing for long periods of time, in and out of consciousness, sometimes my body convulses and apparently my eyes roll to the back of my head or eyelids flutter.
Recently I had an MRI focused on pituitary glad to check for prolactinoma and instead found 4mm "something" in my right frontal lobe that I'm going to get checked out with another MRI a week from today,
okay so now that there's an understanding of previous medical history here are the symptoms I have been having that have recently been getting worse and worse over the past 6 months or so (btw I have been back on my hypothyroid meds taking them every day at the same time without fail for several months now and my tsh levels are still high and was prescribed Wellbutrin again but not making ANY difference, in fact I think I feel WORSE since I began taking it)
Symptoms:
Hair loss
Headaches every day (but they are like pressure and only in a few specific spots in my head, lasting a few seconds at a time)
Dizzyness (sometimes with nausea)
Feeling drunk but totally sober
Confusion
Memory fading
Extreme mood swings
Slowed sometimes slurred speech
Elevated tsh levels (last checked around 14)
Hypothyroidism
Hyperprolactinemia
High chloride levels
High potassium levels
Low rbc
High mch
Low neutrophils
High lymphs
Driving down a familiar road or being in a familiar place and suddenly looking/feeling unfamiliar
Many eye floaters
Double vision from time to time
Extreme sensitivity to light, sometimes accompanied by a feeling of my eyes crossing or rolling
Spasms in eyes, eye lids, eyebrows, sometimes cheeks, and other random body muscles
Bone and joint pain especially in hips, knees, wrists, elbows
Exema (I know I didn't spell that right lol)
Tiny red dots covering arms look like tiny blood dots
Unbelievably easy bruising
Chest pain
Heart randomly beats faster/harder
Random feelings of nervousness
Extreme paranoia
Horribly vivid nightmares (I've had for years but recently so much worse)
Pain in breasts and swelling
Joint popping in hips an knees when trying to walk
Intolerance to heat and cold
Chills and night sweats
Increased perspiration
Pain in neck, shoulders, and arms especially when lifting things
Lower back pain
Cramps in muscles, lower abdomin, stomach, and what I think is ovaries and sometimes uterus
Random "asleep" sensation (numbness/tingling) in arms and legs
Cold hands and feet
Feeling cold but feeling warm to the touch
Tops of shins randomly hurt, as do bottom of feet
Strange hiccupburps (I have no idea how to describe any other way)
Itchyness
What looks like a rash from scratching an itch on breasts
Often feeling the need to urinate
Trouble with bowels
Anxiety
Trouble breathing for no apparent reason, sometimes having to yawn a lot to try to take deep breaths
All over body pain doesn't seem to get any relief from any pain meds prescribed or given at ER
Honestly this probably isn't all of the symptoms I have my memory as stated before has been bad lately
I was tested for Lyme disease earlier this week and waiting on results. Can Lyme disease cause abnormalities in brain? I have been having some of the same symptoms since I was very young and remember specific time of having a bug (almost positive it was a tick) literally half sticking out of the same side of my neck where bump has formed, possibly the exact spot now that I think about it.
If it turns out to be Lyme disease that has develope Over the course of about 13 years will it still be treatable?
Thank you for reading and please somebody, anybody can help me understand what is going on???
-Christina
It could be mitral valve prolapse syndrome/Dysautonomia. I have the exact symptoms you mentioned and I was diagnosed with MVPS/Dysautonomia. Having high amounts of adrenaline can wreck havoc on our nervous system, especially those who are sensitive to adrenaline and it's byproducts. Google MVPS symptoms and see if you have any more of he symptoms listed and get seen by a cardiologist who specializes in MVPS. I had severe, debilitating anxiety caused from too much adrenaline. I had really bad derealization/ brain fog and the vision disturbances were due to anxiety. I am taking dilitizem. And pamelor. I have improved greatly.band back at my life. Hope this helps.
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