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Debilitating symptoms. Brain fog...extreme memory loss...spacey 24/7!

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TaylorMason
TaylorMason

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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  • Sean190582
    Sean190582 TaylorMason

    Posted

    Has anyone had any experience with progabalin???? Ive just picked mine up but chemist looked at me to say dont take them.....
    • rachel62244
      rachel62244 Sean190582

      Posted

      Iv just started them. They are used a lot for anxiety. I can't tell u much as I'm only on 25mg at the moment and took 4

    • Sean190582
      Sean190582 rachel62244

      Posted

      Please keep me updated im on the same not taken them yet but was told they will kick in almost right away
  • emilylawless
    emilylawless TaylorMason

    Posted

    I know this is an old post so idk if u will see this but just wanted to let u know I have all the same symptoms and it's hard to cope when u don't have support or no one else knows what you are going through but your Definitly not alone here smile

    • jayocaine
      jayocaine emilylawless

      Posted

      Tell me about it, being 22 years old sucks. Because no one takes you seriously when you have symptoms that you should be getting as a senior citizen. No one gives you leniency and no one takes you seriously. 
  • irene47035
    irene47035 TaylorMason

    Posted

    I too have had only 2 extreme episodes like that. I have CFS..... Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I have numerous symptoms.

    But what you described .....I had twice. Doctors have no treatments. I have to be careful and take good care of myself. Some days are bad......some worse. I find if I push myself too far, I suffer the next day and stay in bed. Please be good to yourself.....eat good ect.Hope your having a good day today.

    Irene

  • mel52125
    mel52125 TaylorMason

    Posted

    Hi guys. over 12years i suffered! i was eventualy diagnosed by an african trainee gp. its common in african women aparently and its called Lupus sle. ive also got A.P.S which makes ur blood sticky in a way hence feeling sluggish etc. try an asprin a day to see if any different as that thins the blood. all the above then caused furring on celebral artery in brain which the blood flow is restricted so obviously things are gona be slower up there if im making any sense lol good luck guys and dont give up!
  • Happy_at_Last
    Happy_at_Last TaylorMason

    Posted

    Please please please try removing milk/ cheese/ butter/ yoghurt any kind of dairy from your life. I woke up one day with exactly the same symptoms as you. I started to feel distorted from the world like I was a bystander in my life. Felt "not with it" and just not right. I couldn't concentrate on anything, zoned out when people talked to me and just didn't feel right. It was only when I began to do a food elimination diet for a month & cut dairy out that I began to feel better. Thinking I was all fixed I had the tiniest bit of milk and within 2hrs my symptoms were back and lasted a week. Cutting out dairy is the only way to deal with this. I know it's overwhelming. I'm the biggest cheese eater in the world but I am getting through it by drinking rude health almond milk. U can try any non dairy milk. And I have completely cut cheese and yoghurt out. I really hope this helps you. If u Google lactose intolerance or casein intolerance (a protein found in milk)

  • Bige410
    Bige410 TaylorMason

    Posted

    Hey I am a 20 year old male with similar symptoms. I went out drinking and got the drunkest I have ever been, I was throwing up and everything (only the second time I had thrown up from drinking) I felt bad for the whole week after. I was just really tired all the time and has some brain fog. Eventually the tiredness went away and I started going to the gym again but i realized I couldn't work out very long with out getting nauseous and dizzy to the point where I had to go home. The tiredness came and went for about 3 weeks until I got home from a 1 week vacation last week. The morning after getting home I felt very uncomfortable, anxious, nauseous and tired! That night when I went to bed I had a panic attack because I was wishing I could feel normal again and have had a depressed feeling ever since, I had suicidal thoughts but not to a serious degree. I get very nauseous and gag a lot and I feel just so over whelmed by all this! I got blood tests because I am a vegetarian and all my levels were normal although the doctor said my blood sugar was low but not low enough to be considered low. I barely go to the gym now let alone leave the house. University starts back up in september and i am freaking out because im afraid I wont do well in my classes because of this. I go for another doctors appointment with a new doctor in 4 days.

    • rebekah2222
      rebekah2222 Bige410

      Posted

      I can completely understand where you're coming from, you're not alone. I'm 20 too.

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