Fainting, Weakness, Tingling, Cluster Headaches...Confused?

Fainting, Weakness, Tingling, Cluster Headaches...Confused?

Hi,

I'm new to this so apologies if I'm going about this all wrong.

I'll start by telling you who I am. I am a nineteen year old female student. I consider myself to have been in a good standard of health up until this year, however, illness has been a factor in my life as my mother is currently fighting her fifth battle with cancer and is a sufferer of Lupus and Sjogren's syndrome.

In January of this year I became unwell, just with the general winter bugs that go around but after a month I was still suffering. Eventually, I phoned home and my parents decided to come and collect me from University as I was displaying symptoms of bacterial meningitis. I was taken to hospital and told it was a culmination of severe infections but not thought to have been meningitis. I was also diagnosed with cluster headaches. I returned to University and while I continued to be somewhat weak and still suffered the headaches but generally healthy.

Three weeks pass and bring us up to date, I am currently home from Uni for spring break. Two days ago I attended a gig in a local bar with my family, we were stood; alongside many others, when I suddenly felt very sick, I looked around to find the exit and then toward my mother to try and tell her that I was going to be sick and wanted to leave but I couldn't seem to speak, she said something to me but my hearing had become muffled and somehow the silence was deafening, I looked at my feet and everything faded to black. I assume I passed out. The next thing I remember is being outside with my Dad shouting my name. I am told I hit the deck hard and was carried outside. I was incredibly hot and sweating but shivering and complaining I was cold. I had a sharp pain at the base of my neck, and my left leg was numb from the knee down, as was my right arm from the elbow down.

Two days have passed now and I am still felling very odd. I still have tingling sensation in my finger tips and toes but the majority of numbness has gone. I am still going through phases of being extremely hot and sweaty and yet shivering. I have had the stabbing pain in my neck every now and again. I have had another headache, but that is normal as I suffer them three of four times a week.

I am just a little confused. I would like to see a doctor but I am no longer registered at a doctors here and I live in a very rural area where there is no real chance of seeing an emergency doctor. I have been told by a few friends and my parents to go to Accident and Emergency but I don't feel that it is really that serious. Any thoughts, gratefully accepted!

Thanks in advance!

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