Hi
I have for the last 2 weeks had a kind of feeling of having a mild flu without fever or vomiting, or like I have had a drink or 2 but without the buzz, just the side effects.
I would like to list my symptoms I have and those I dont and hear back from anyone going through the same type of situation.
Im a 35y/o male in southern California.
Symptoms I have in order of most often occuring through the day.
1. Eyes feel lazy, often like they want to go into day dream mode, feels like it is hard to focus, like they want to go cross eyed or slower to focuse from object to object. I feel like my vision is slightly blury sometimes or not focusing correctly but I notice I have no problem reading fine print close or far. My eyes feel slow to focus like when you have had a drink or 2 or when you have a flu.
I find it hard to watch anything on tv that has alot of movement on screen whithout feeling off ballance. I was playing a first person shooter and just moving my character around on screen made me feel disoriented, I had to stop.
I also have a slight feeling of maybe the slightest puffy like pressure on or around my eyes, but just slight like just after you wake up, also like just waking up my eyes feel like they are almost working normal but not quite, I can still see small print but feel like im not, its hard to discribe, like being in a brain fog.... This is what they feel like all day long.
I do not have the following,, Dry eyes, Watering, mucus, redness, pain
2. Fatigue, I have had this for 2 weeks as well, but each day is different, one day my body just has no energy at all, doing something like putting on a sock ends up taking 15 min, because my body is so lazy and my eyes and mind keep going into like a daydream state, then I keep realizing, Oh ya, I got to put this sock on, Feel like, man no energy. Dont want to move. This has happened only a couple times this week at that level, but even when its not so bad, I still feel ...Well, Lazy, All day, Sometimes my body feels fine and my mind is too tired to focus on doing anything, sometimes my mind is fine and my body is lazy. And most ofter both are not too bad, and I get Lightheaded if I try to do something like next symptom.
3. Head, everytime I physicaly feel not too tired, I try to do some kind of light chore and It causes me to get light headed, like just before you start to faint, you can feel it start to come on. I went in the back yard to water the lawn by hand a little and within 10 minutes I get that feeling coming on and Im like, Man I better go sit down. I can walk around the house with no problem.. Talking to someone can make me feel light headed as well, like the vibrations from my own voice make me start to feel uneasy.
Later in the day or night I often get a bit of a headache, no sharp pain or throbing, just a slight ache usually on the sides or top, not really a pain, more like a pressure or muscle discomfort.
4. Ears. Nothing really except the slightly off ballance feelings, which occure when looking at objects moving around to quickly, Loud sounds such as a loud tv or radio makes me feel nausiated and disoriented. Feel like I am sensitive to noise louder than normal. I did have a little pain in both ears upon waking one morning a week ago, like clogged tubes but they popped and cleared.
5. nose and throat. My nose a area between my eyes on the skin, I get a very slight feeling of like a puffyness or pressure like around my eyes, feels more like on my face rather than deep into the sinuses, My lips often get a slight odd feeling, if you lightly pinch your lips, the feeling you get several seconds later is what my lips often feel like, its a difficult feeling to describe. I do not have cyanosis or anything. I do not get runny nose or cough that you would have with a cold. I dont get sinus pains. One day last week It felt like my right Thyroid gland was just a little achy when pressure put on it such as looking down, but felt no swelling, It has not happened again.
6. Neck. Many viruses and the such I have looked up mention stiff neck, I do not have any stiffness or pain in the neck.
7. Bowels. A little odd to talk about but early on around the time my eyes started acting weird, I did have a couple days of watery stools, Diarrhea, but not like I had to go constantly, just when I went is was, Well you know.
Since then, I have been going like normal but for the last week every time is not watery at all, but defidently is like I am on a high fiber diet which is not normal for me, So I am thinking there is some connection between that and my other symptoms, Just an ear problem could not effect the bowel right? Other than the high fiber type of stools, I have had no other bowel problems such as gas or cramps pains, non of that.
Thats about it, Funky eyes not that seem slow to focus from one thing to another or the brain not keeping up with what the eyes are looking at, feel like Im out of focus but still read the small print, More like My head is in a constant fog, My head can move from forward to the left,and my eyes and mind catch up a second later, I can stand on one foot with my eyes closed and walk a straight line no problem,But look at the ground then forward and I get slightly dizzy for a second like the ground moved a little under me sometimes. And cant do any physical work without getting light headed.
Have been checking my heart rate, blood pressure and Temperature daily and they are all normal
Feel most normal in the morning, and eyes and head get worse gradually till bed time, then I get to start all over the next morning.
I have not had a history of allergies other than itchy eyes when a lawn is mowed,
Have not traveled or changed my diet or activities lately
No Fever or vomiting, But feels like a slight flu minus those 2 symptoms.
My Appetite is ok.
Only nausea when loud noises, Not like a im going to be sick nausea, but more of a uneasyness and dizzyness.
I have no known medical conditions prior to this.
Eating does not change anything
Symptoms dont seem to be getting worse or better, just hanging on every day for 2 weeks now.
If you read through all this.. Wow and thanks.
Anyone else have anything like this? I was thinking maybe I got bit by a mosquito and got something, or maybe valley fever which is common im this part of the state, but its hard to match up symptoms, Dont know what my deal is.
I am currently out of work and without Insurance, so going to a doctor is out of the question at this time unless something gets bad enough that I must go in. Ironic considering I was an emt for a short time and went through Paramedic school, but that was quite a while back and I was more of a trauma guy straight forward stuff, Illness on the other had, not so simple. I am hoping that this will eventually go away on its own. But untill it goes away or gets worse, I would like to hear from others with same symptoms.
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