Debilitating symptoms. Brain fog...extreme memory loss...spacey 24/7!
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The last year of my life has been a brutal one. At the age of 22, I am in the lowest of lows and I desperately need some help!
Here’s my tale:
About a year ago, a couple months after an extremely strenuous relationship, I began noticing that I was tired all the time…and all around, I wasn’t really satisfied. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed my friends, and activities…but life just wasn’t as bright and vibrant anymore after a month of noticing this ever-present fatigue, it got a bit stronger. I would wake up each morning completely zombie-mode…and that feeling would remain throughout the entirety of my day, until my head hit my pillow that evening.
Initially, I suspected some form of sleeping disorder. I set up a sleep study, got my thyroid checked, ferritin levels, all the basics. Sleep study revealed I sleep just fine and all my other blood tests came back negative.
The fatigue and the weight of the world slowly got worse over the next handful of months, UNTIL I woke up one morning and everything escalated greatly. I felt completely stoned. I couldn’t think right. I couldn’t concentrate. I felt inebriated. I felt totally disconnected and spacey. I felt as though I had no control over myself. I lost drive and motivation. I lost a lot of confidence. I always had an incredibly sharp memory. It was actually something well known about me to those in my family and friend circles. Yet, on this morning, almost all new information could not be retained. Things that happened earlier in the day, by evening, I felt they happened a day or two before. I could no longer recount the activities I took part in. This is possibly the worst of all the symptoms. The extreme short term memory. I have no context for time and I sort of feel like I’m just floating through life suffering.
For months I visited doctors getting tested by specialists. I visited a neurologist, infectious disease, I had an MRI, & I had about 20 different blood tests. NOTHING. My doctor literally said “I have no idea what this could be. I am beside myself” TOTES reassuring! I tried altering my diet entirely to organic and all natural. I continued my workouts and ran 15 miles a week. I tried sleeping even earlier. I tried all I could think of .
I have scoured the message boards and found a few people suffering from the same, but without answers.
I’m not sure if depression is the culprit, but depression sure has found its nasty venom-coated fangs into my veins. Tired, depressed, failed memory, no drive, scared…it’s no way to live. I want my life back.
PLEASE OFFER INSIGHT! I will be so grateful J
Sincerely,
Taylorsaurus Rex
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rachel62244 TaylorMason
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jen31560 TaylorMason
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rachel62244 jen31560
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Spaced out
Dream state
In a bubble
Like I'm not really there - nothing seems real
Zombie / foggy
Is this how u feel?? Read about depersonalisation. I know how awful it feels. I darnt drive! X
collette64 rachel62244
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Thebroman rachel62244
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cameron68289 rachel62244
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jenbate310 Thebroman
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pink48329 cameron68289
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suzanne98338 jenbate310
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If you don't think it's anxiety or depression betahistine has worked a miracles for me! #found my own solution.
chloe39608 suzanne98338
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just googeled this im very interested because i have symptoms of menieres what did it help in your case i have heavy head one ear ringing
gillian81509 TaylorMason
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Maybe it's as simple as that
rachel62244 gillian81509
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gillian81509 rachel62244
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I enjoy gardening so I busied myself and looked after hens etc
it helps
take each day as I forward
suzanne98338 rachel62244
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It might be worth while asking your Dr. for a prescription of betahistine. Have a little blurb on here of finding my own solution after seeing so many suffering the same thing. I requested betahistine for vertigo which finally went but it worked immediately on my zombie like state. Unfortunately the fog keeps coming back but with this miracle pill it's gone jus as fast. Read "found my own solution" for more details. No one should have to go through this, I was lucky to find something that works since doctors don't seem to know what's going on.
ed55555 suzanne98338
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what were your symptoms?? was it brain fog
Did you have memory loss