Neurooathic or brain damage despite CT & MRI scans being OK?

Hi gnnir,

You may want to check this article first, and see if is of any help. If not come back and we will direct you on other possible paths. Please do not read everything you see on the internet, a lot can be untrue and not even wrote by a doctor in a certain profession.

https://patient.info/doctor/neuropathic-pain-and-its-management

Regards,

Les.

Unless you were drinking grain alcohol or something crazy, IT AIN'T SO! Absolutely impossible.

Jeff

It's definitely not the alcohol and a result of a few binge drinking episodes, so put that out of your mind!  Trust me on this one, I have relatives who binge drink every single day (yes, they are hardcore alcoholics) and other than the expected liver damage (literally from decades of heavy drinking) they are basically ok. (not that being an alcoholic means that they are ok,  but you get what I mean.) Are you being treated for the depression? Let me guess, you beat yourself up constantly for the drinking episodes, relive them, go over them, wish you could back track and do it all over?  You need to stop beating yourself up for this! That's really important! Depression alone (and anxiety) can cause some incredibly crazy physical symptoms (numbness in the limbs is very common and typical by the way), so perhaps tackle the depression first? We all fight tough battles from time to time and it's ok to give yourself permission to forgive yourself and start looking forwards...Good luck!

Ps. Feeling dizzy and off balance are also typical depression symptoms...I'm not a doctor of course, but that would be my two cents...

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Hi.  I am so sorry to hear about your problems and have read the replies.  I also have no medical knowledge, but agree that the blurred vision and unsteady gait is unlikely to be due to binge drinking (I no longer drink but had a boyfriend years ago who was a binge drinker and his vision and walking were fine, other than when he drank!)

One thing occurred to me, and that is if you are on anti depressants, they can cause blurred vision, dizziness, etc and you should NEVER mix them with alcohol.  If you are on them, check the side effects.  Years ago the doctors decided that my unusual symptoms were due to anxiety and depression and insisted that I tried antidepressants and refused to give me any tests until I did.  I took them for less than a week before I could not tolerate the side effects any more, mostly blurred vision and dizziness.

Secondly, you know your body best and if you are not happy, do not let anyone tell you that it's all due to anxiety, depression, etc.  They can cause these symptoms, but I know to my cost that so can other things.  If you are able to, getting out in the fresh air on a decent day, eating well, and not drinking could help.  Also, if you are not happy with the scan results and the doctors' opinions, go back and demand a second opinion.  I have spent the last seven years being told that I had nothing wrong with me, because the tests that I had did not pick anything up.  Like you, I have been to A&E because I have felt so unwell and was getting nowhere with my doctors.  Change surgery if you have to, as I did.  In the end I was paying to see various specialists privately, and one came up trumps.  I am now registered severely sight impaired/blind and, although I have advanced glaucoma, my specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital said that he thought I also had a neurological problem, which I had long suspected.  Despite two normal lumbar punctures, a neurosurgeon was suspicious that I might have low inter cranial pressure and I am due to go into hospital for a lot more tests next month to find out whether or not I have a leak of CSF. If you are really convinced that there is something not right, go back to the doctors and make a nuisance of yourself, but stop the drinking first, get help to do so if necessary. 

I so hope that you feel better soon.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound as if I was preaching in my earlier post, and well done you for not drinking.

A&E departments are normally staffed by junior doctors who are learning, House Officers and Senior House Officers if you are lucky, not normally Registrars or Consultants.  I am not sure whether you are in the UK or not, but do you have a good GP that you could go back to and insist on seeing a neurologist, if you haven't already seen one?  You know your own body best, but I know from experience that A&E is not the right place to go unless you have life threatening conditions, severe pain or broken bones, etc.  They just patch you up and send you back to your GP.  Good luck x

I am certain that the symptoms you describe have nothing to do with heavy drinking. Did you drink so much that you had alchohol poisoning and had to be admitted to the hospital? I sadly know people who have done this several times and still don't have your symptoms.  My two cents is that it's either the meds (they can so all kinds of crazy stuff) or it's anxiety. Anxiety can make you VERY ill (or at least feeling that way) and the symptoms you describe are common anxiety symptoms. Depression can do this too, of course.  Don't despair! They is help out there and it was not the drinking!