unable to focus when reading, foggy and feeling of being disconnect

[Ranger01]

I've been experiencing some odd symptoms over the past few years and they have since gotten worse and now concerning to me.  My vision is constanly bothering me and I have a hard time focusing on words when reading.  In the past I've had spells of blurred vision followed by a lathargic state and then a pounding headache.  This headache sometimes lasted for more than 24 hours.  About 3 years ago, I had an MRI done and all came back clear.  I recently had bloodwork done and thought Diabetes was the case, but all results came back clear except my liver count (elavated AST and ALT).  I'm still going through some tests for the liver, but already had an ultrasound and Hep A,B,C test which were all clear. The blurry vision/foggy feeling has me concerned since I have recently been to the eye doctor and all was good. He simply gave me computer glasses and sent me on my way. The feeling is almost like being intoxicated and being disconnected. When I have conversations with people, it's hard to concentrate on that subject and even hard to remember what was talked about earlier. I'm a 31 year old male (6'1 210lbs) and in relatively decent shape.  I drank alcohol somewhat heavily on the weekends in college, but have 3-6 drinks a weekend at the most now.  

It's gotten to the point that I'm stressing about it and searching the internet for any clues.....If you have the same symptoms and hopefully a suggestion, please let me know. Any help is appreciated.  It seems that doctors have shrugged it off and I'm desperate for answers.

[Labellesuze]

I can't concentrate I can't focus sometimes when I'm reading I feel sleepy even tho I'm not sleepy.when I'm reading a book or try to get some homework done I skip paragraph and sometimes I will go back and read what I just red like 4 to 6 times.when I'm trying to concentrate or focus my mind is in 10 deferent country thinking bout millions things when I shold be focus on what's important that's when my mind is doing its own thing sometimes when I'm reading my head feel heavy and kinda hurts.thats one of the reason I drop out of high school cause I think that I wasn't smart enough to do so and now I'm trying to go get my GED at the age of 31 with two kids and I find myself in the same position as I was in high school please help.

[rocksolid321]

Has anybody looked into Vertical Heterophoria? Also look at SCM Muscle Syndrome, and Google Wisdom teeth dizzy for a forum. You can also look up dizzy times which is another dizzy forum.

[weelassie1977]

i have nearly all these symptoms and i have fibromaliga me(cfs) and being tested for ms its a hard and difficult road and many many test but in the ened iam sure i will get the treatment i need as nothing seems to be working at the moment my eyes are causing a lot of discomfort and stress i hope you all find out your cause

[Slubr11]

Waking up in the Early morning I felt just fine but two hours after taking my medicine I started to notice a slight feeling of hopelessness and soon I felt an impending dread of being doomed to the world as I was feeling apathetic and uncaring about everything around me I felt anxiety and felt sloppy and disorganized and when I tried to physically exert myself my body wouldn't let me move fast and my hand eye coordination was off due to the spaced out feeling I was experiencing. All the vivid colors of my surroundings were dulled  and my wakefulness and sense of well being was replaced with overwhelming disorientation and dysphoria. exercising didn't raise my heart rate like it should, and when I tried to take deep breaths my breathing would sound like a quivering and ragged breath. When I was feeling like this my sentences to people would be out of place or have no meaning or just didn't make sense. My mom even stated it was all in my head but I know my body and I can tell when something is not right. A dizziness would come over me out of nowhere and plague me with negative thoughts that was triggered for no reason, the only noted pattern about the feelings that I noticed is that these feelings seem to fluctuate with the weather. The cold weather seemed to bring down the symptoms to where they would be unnoticed or even feel like these feelings disappeared but during the hot days the mood swings and dizziness would fluctuate, if it was hot and super humid at the same time my body would feel heavy and my concentration would remain inattentive with or without my medication that feeling would fluctuate, my moods would sometimes come in spaced out and detached emotions followed by a wave of dizziness lasting sometimes longer than two hours after those feelings subside I will feel a burst of confidence and energy out of nowhere and have the need to show great optimism and empathy to everyone and everything around me. Observing the circumstances either the weather pressure or the humidity played the big role in this case based on the noticeable mood patterns.

[Slubr11]

I don't know whether my kyphosis is causing some of the problems, but the disease appears to effect the functioning of the lungs  based on web md and Wikipedias sources on the Internet. My biological father has emphysema but I don't think it is common for this disease to be transferred genetically, what are the odds of me being one of  those rare cases? Probably 1 out of 100% chance right?

[Slubr11]

Today I'm feeling super energized without even drinking coffee or taking anything but my medicine, I observed the humidity today and before I looked at the percentage I was able to guess it before I looked at the humidity percentage based on the way I felt, and I guessed 70% and that percentage was very close to the actual number which was 77% humidity! I don't know why my moods change based on humidity levels, or whatever makes me feel spaced out, which I tend to feel like that when  the humidity is at 85-100%. On Friday, June 12th I woke up in the morning feeling a little stiff in my joints but mentally I was just fine but then an hour later I started to feel an overwhelming tiredness that not only made my body feel heavy but also made me feel disorganized and lousy, my posture was hard to keep straight as I kept on slouching, even trying to keep my posture straight was very difficult in the state I was in. A spaced out, brain fog type feeling clouded my head as I attempted to take a shower and in the process of washing my feet I slipped, grabbing on to the rack that supported the shower doors. I had time to lift myself up when the doors unluckily came out of the racks and both of the doors fell on each other when they landed on the floor. I asked myself many times what's wrong with me then I yelled in frustration because I didn't know why I was feeling so bad. I had these problems long before I took the adderall the only reason I seem to have more outbursts is because since I'm out of school I need to get in a career and I don't want to get these clumsy, spaced out, debilitating attacks when I'm working at a job because I might get fired or be labeled by my coworkers as being dumb or retarted. These symptoms will make me seem out of it to some people and some even told me I looked like I was lost, and I technically am but I am mentally lost during these attacks not actually lost. The symptoms of the attack would start with a sudden feeling of drowsiness followed by a lack of eye movement and the loss of some of my ability to see certain things in my peripheral vision that I could normally detect when normal. Then I will get irritable about feeling that way and I would sometimes bang my head with my fist trying to hit that part of my head where I assume the dizziness is caused. I will also rev myself up so I can get angry or excited in an attempt to raise my blood pressure to get rid of the tiredness. The coping skills and calming methods I tried didn't work . I tried to take deep breaths to relieve the disorientation and not only did it not work, I found out that during this phenomenon my deep breathing attempts resulted in a tingling sensation around the head, face and forehead, and somewhat in the lips, following a feeling of lightheadedness and more tiredness, my breathing was also shaky, and felt as if my lungs weren't getting all the air I was breathing in, as if my lungs were already half full of air, my stomach didn't rise as much as it normally would when I took a deep breath, and when my stomach went back down it was shaking and quivering. Sometimes I would check my pulse during the attack pressing my first two fingers on my jugular veins and felt for a pulse but it didn't feel like my pulse was as strong as it normally is because it felt more faint during the episode. Another coping skill that failed during the attack was exercising because that heavy feeling in my body caused me to just be able to walk and even then I felt off balance and would sometimes stumble and my step dad saw me stumble during an attack once and asked me if I drank or took drugs, because he didn't know I had problems with these bodily ailments because I didn't know how to explain  the phenomenon in words, and I did succeed a couple  of times in attempting to physically exert myself during the attack but afterwords when I checked my heart rate it didn't rise at all like it would when I was exercising in my normal state
These attacks disrupt the beneficial effects of my medicine because the tiredness from the attack makes the adderalls effect dulled or it is so blunt that it gives a placebo effect but it usually regains effective strength after the attack subsides. I also don't breath threw my mouth a lot and I will purse my lips pretty regularly when I breath through my nose. I don't know how to stop these attacks and it frustrates me when my own parents call me a hypochondriac and it's my own imagination when the confusion and disorientation is real and dangerous, especially when driving a truck or worse, a big tractor that breaks easily and has duals bigger than car crushing, monster truck tires! Did I mention those tractor tires are filled to the brim with tons of water?! I will not lay around on my behind like my brother and cypher money from my own family like a vacuum, he should just be glad that he doesn't have the attacks I do and yet I might have these problems but I still don't give up regardless, and I have aspergers and add to boot! Fyi; I also lose interest in the opposite sex during these attacks and my likes, imagination,motivational goals and drive will disappear as It also makes me selfish and apathetic. I know it can't be the aspergers because why would that make me feel tired? It's like I'll be alert and confident one moment and then I'll feel tired and insecure the next, I never have a consistent sleep pattern but mostly I'll sleep for five to six hours. I'm like mentally wired to the weather because I'll feel amazing when the sun is out and it is 70% humidity but for some reason if it goes to 80% or above I will feel unsure about everything I do and when I try to talk to people while I feel like this I'll stutter and slur my speech and I will get mad because I want to keep my personality in tact but can't because I feel depressed, panicky, and disorientated unless the sun disappears behind the clouds. everyone around me will seem to be in a good mood during my sad or negative moods and when I'm in a good mood everyone else seems more like me when I'm in a negative mood, not even my brother has a similar pattern as me and he struggles from bipolar! It might just be that a diagnosis of seasonal affective disorder( the summer version)would make sense. My doctor will probably send me to an asylum talking this crazy! Lol! What do ya think? I think this sounds pretty weird! You can't describe certain phenomenon but I noticed every tiny ounce of aspects of mine, except for the problems that might be causing it, except I think the stuttering might be related to the aspergers I dont know about the Suns amount of light affecting moods and the humidity affecting me though.

[lag028]

narcolepsy with cataplexy. see a sleep specialist.
after yrs of tests, etc. i got diagnosed after 15+ yrs.