Sinusitis??

Hi everyone. Please read through. Thank you so much

So I got flu-like symptoms in January. Cough. Fever. Diarrhea. All of the above.

As I was getting over it, I developed slight vertigo.

For the next three weeks, the vertigo would come and go. Some days hardly noticeable (although I was starting to get tired quickly...odd).

In February however, I eventually developed ear pressure! Like crackling and air feeling trapped. Also, I started to get facial tension. Sunburnt feeling on cheek.

A week passes by and that’s when my vertigo came back stronger! Especially out of my right eye. I felt drunk, swaying from a boat.

It caused me to feel lightheaded. I go to urgent care. Doctor says it’s a migraine...no way does it feel like a migraine.

A few days pass.

The vertigo is starting to diminish! Hooray...except not.

The vertigo has now turned into heavy heavy head pressure. Like swollen feeling. Like an orange being squeezed or a balloon filled with air. Not sharp pains, but pain when being squeezed. This also got me lightheaded.

I go to see my PCP. He thinks it’s a middle/inner ear infection.

I get prescribed nasal spray, 500 mg Amoxicillin, antihistamines, Meclizine (left me paranoid), ear drops and Ibropufen.

Use it for a week or so. Doesn’t work.

Instead, I get more symptoms.

Burning burning feet. Trigger finger. Cold hands in the morning especially my right hand. Gimpy legs. Burning sensations in chest and back!

There seems to be some nerve/neuropathy taking place here but why?

I then take a comprehensive blood panel. Everything turns out normal. I’m stumped.

Eventually, the neuropathy gets worse. I’m feeling aches and pains, burning sensations everywhere. My chest has dull aches on my right chest. My heart is loud! Random palpitations. Increase of blood pressure at various times.

It feels like my blood doesn’t know where or when to flow. I’m malfunctioning.

Lastly, I developed digestive issues. Like I can barely eat now without feeling full, including water. My body is bloated and it takes forever to digest my food. That’s the last symptom I developed.

Altogether 2 and a half months of crap, just from getting flu-like symptoms in January.

Now, I am scheduled for a CT scan of my head in two weeks. Doctor just wants to do his due diligence.

That being said, I spoke to another trusted doctor, and he mentions that this could be a bad case of Sinusitis sprinkled in with anxiety and stress levels causing neurological symptoms. He said that Amoxicillin on its own is not good enough at times. It needs to be stronger. Also a few days course of Prednisone for any inflammation.

On top of that my stress and anxiety, has created a whirlpool of damage to my body. But controlling the head pressure and ear pressure is the first step for all the other nerves.

What do you guys think?

I was healthy leading up to the new year, going to the gym 4 times a week. Now I’m ill.

5’7

29 years old

Male

173 lbs

Any advice would be amazing!

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