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Spaced out, high, Drunk Feeling. Please help me. (5 MONTHS)

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ecdirtdevil
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Hi everyone.

My name is Erik. I am a 20 year old male, thin build. 6' 2'' at 170 lbs. I have had really debilitating issues for the last 5 months. The issue is that I feel drunk, spacey, loopy, high and dizzy all the time. It basically feels the same as if you were tipsy or the high feeling you can get. I also have visual disturbances. My vision has become blurry and I have somewhat tunnel vision. I just feel all around out of it. I find myself daydream, when I say this I mean my eyes don't focus on anything (go blurry) and just look at nothing. I think it might be slight double vision. Sounds are also very werid and it takes alot of energy to focus on visual and audio stimulants. Additionally, I am tired all the time. Extremely tired. Some days I will sleep very well for 10-11 hours and still be tired when I wake up and exercise will not wake me up. It is like the type of good solid sleep you have when your body is sick.. My memory has gotten really bad as well as my ability to process thoughts and engage in conversation. Imagine being drunk all the time...first I have been reading on boards like this for a long time now and have seen some people with these symptoms but no answers!! People seem to disappear. I hope hey have solved this problem but please let me know how!

Let me start by giving some background information. In August 2015 I was in an indoor rock climbing gym and fell from 15 feet straight onto my back. I could not move for a good 15 minutes because it hurt so bad. I wasn't able to do anything athletic after that day for at least a month. However, I did not have my current symptoms after this fall. 

Fast forward to December 15th 2015. I got really sick, was in bed for 4 days. Sore throat, eyes hurt like crazy, and super tired. It was during and after these 4 days that I developed a headache. This headache causes a pressure/dull/sharp pain behind my eyes, the upper bridge of my nose and right in between my eyes on my forehead. This headache lasted for about 4 months. 

At about 3 weeks into the headache I went and saw an ENT as I thought it was a sinus infection. i took multiple sets of antibiotics over the course of the next month to no avail. I got blood tests and liver test at around 2 months into the headache and nothing showed abnormal. I then was able to get into a nuerologist. They were unable to find anything after taking an MRI of my head with a barium contrast. 

Since the beginning of my headache I have been seeing a (PT) physical therapist mostly for my neck and back since after the fall my back is sore constantly. I had a neck injury about 5 years ago on a trampoline so I have a sore neck, tight muscles alot from that. 

At about 3 months into the headache (3/15/2015) I developed a new symptom, the drunk/high, dizziness, loopiness. I had the headache at the same time at this point. My PT suggested that I may have a blood vessel being pinched in my neck or a nerve being pinched in my mid back area where my rock climbing fall pain is mostly at.

I have been to 3 different chiropractors since this has occured about 5 times to each one. It has not helped so far. My PT gave me massages in my affected back and neck areas. 

Also a new thing I've noticed recently is that when I look up (bend my neck to look at the sky) I seem to get some sort of relief? Also ever since the loopy part started (this did not happen when I just had the headache) any amount of alcohol at all will make me SUPER DRUNK, literally like 2 sips. I used to be able to drink 3 full beers before getting buzzed.

I am thinking I want my doctor to give me a full head (brain/upper atlas) to lower back (tailbone) MRI so that my nerves and blood vessels going to my brain can be evaluated. Do you think this is a good idea? Has anyone had these symptoms before? I am now 5 months into this and it is debilitating. 

No doctor is taking me seriously because I am so young and the chances of having a serious problem are supposedly slim because of my age. PLEASE HELP!!! I feel like I'm caught in a dream and losing my awareness and my IQ. I am afraid something is damaging my brain and this is going to be permanent.

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  • CLVH
    CLVH ecdirtdevil

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    https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/vertigo/symptoms-causes/syc-20370055 Sounds like you have alot of the severe symptoms for this.

    • marylynn
      marylynn CLVH

      Posted

      I have worked in chiropractic strangely for 26 years I am now retired but I have had this all through the times of working in the chiropractic office I have been adjusted multiple times they’ve tried everything nothing has worked in that venue at all but I’m not saying that it wouldn’t help some I have seen it so glad that it is helping you so so glad I always tell my kids taken autopsy after I die I want them to know why I suffered for many many years with this drug junk like feel like feeling… I have also added to all this just recently polymyalgia and giant sell artistes which have to do with the arteries in the head G AC is what it’s called but I do not believe that I have had GAC for yearsThat would cause the drug dizzy feeling… And I do not read the GAC does that I am always read these with a little bit a help thinking the answer might lie behind the responses thank you for taking time to write the very best to you… I speak my messages so they do not look the best

  • lian92495
    lian92495 ecdirtdevil

    Posted

    I've had these feelings for years along with joint, muscle aches. Following xrays apparently my spine had become misshapen and thus affected my brain's ability to communicate with my body. Having begun chiropractic treatment my head is finally begining to clear and vision has improved clarity. Worth looking into if you experience similar symptoms

    • kyre08892
      kyre08892 lian92495

      Posted

      i have similar like drunk feeling and neckz pain, hey i have been going to the chiropractor i did feel some difference. but now it comes and goes.... at first my doctor said it was fluid in my ears cause i was complaining about that too, so went to an ent doc and they said my ears were fine, now maybe 2 months ago i started my chropractor treatments

  • chloeselina
    chloeselina ecdirtdevil

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    chronic fatigue syndrome is my latest guess at what is wrong with me. it has a lot of these same symptoms and the doctors cant find a single thing wrong with me. so all signs point to cfs

    • shaun1000
      shaun1000 chloeselina

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      Hi. CFS alongside the feelings of head pressure is often due to a condition known as Intracranial Hypertension. Look it up. You will need to be referred to a neurologist for this diagnosis and will need them to order you a lumbar puncture. This condition is often missed, I went over 3 years before I finally got diagnosed and that was because I found out for myself by following similar advice I'm now posting. Best of luck.

    • Spanishgirl
      Spanishgirl shaun1000

      Posted

      hello shanon! saw some of your comments at you been miasignosied ans just found you have hipercranial tension. were you misdiagnosies by any neurologist? what age and weight are you? did you also had constant pressure on forheead that never goes away like default mode, concentration problem, your brain doesnt process things that are in front of you and youe just laggy , and speech problems? ve been to one thet says its just stress when i ve been like this for more than one year, i said i could hvae hipercranial but he was quick to dismissed it, because im young ans he think im just a stresses student woth anxiety. wich after seeing ur posts will see again. what were ur sintoms? and ht is supposed to cause blindness and other eye peoblems, u didnt have any of it in these 4 years? happy that you found your cause 😃 hope i find mine and get out of this living hell

  • timon86146
    timon86146 ecdirtdevil

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    (i apologize in advance for my english as i am not a native speaker)

    hi guys, i have been suffering from the same symptoms as you all, so i would like to share some exercises that have helped quite a lot in relieving them, as i know how much distress this condition can bring.

    It doesnt seem like much so it might not help but it never hurts to try.

    So for me, this condition seems like its neck/cervical area related and after being pretty much ignored by all of the health professionals i went to see, i randomly started to do neck stretches, but i quickly realized it was giving me more than temporary relief.

    So the main exercise that helped me was to stretch my neck from side to side, pulling on my head with one hand and trying to touch my shoulder with my ear.

    I still have no clue about what was the root of the problem, but i feel much better than i did a month ago. I suggest to do all kind of neck stretches in order to find if a particular one works for you.

    I dont know if this will be of help as it seems really basic but i sure hope so.

    • timon86146
      timon86146

      Posted

      (i also went to see a chiropractor but i felt like doing stretches myself, the one i described in particular, was way more useful)

    • andreas05389
      andreas05389 timon86146

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      Go see an orthopedic spine specialist-- your C1/C2 are likely rotated/shifted and pressing on your brain stem. This kind of rotation is so minimal you won't see it in an MRI but it makes all the difference. Research Atlas subluxation and you'll be amazed.

  • andreas05389
    andreas05389 ecdirtdevil

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    I posted on this thread earlier, but have your C1 and C2 vertebrae checked out and research what Atlas Subluxation is. I just got this diagnosis after countless doctor visits. Trust me, at least go see an orthopedic doctor specialized in cervical spine or a chiropractor specialized in Cervical Spine/Atlas treatments. It's mind blowing no other doctor mentioned this to me. I have immunology issues, hematological issues, sinus issues, vision issues, ear issues.... the list goes on and I'm only 27. Those exact nerve pathways run through your C1/C2. I just got my first adjustment but I've likely lived with this for 13 years-- 5 of which have been unpleasant and 2 of which have been bad enough to keep me out of work -- so it may take a bit of time. Let's see. It can take a few sessions before the new positioning takes hold.

    I'll keep the group updated.

  • drako63450
    drako63450 ecdirtdevil

    Posted

    hey my name is Luke. I'm 19 and for the past 5-6 months this I've been dealing with the same thing I woke up one morning with really bad anxiety and was vomiting and had a drunkin feeIing and I was a heavy smoker and could drink allot buh the slightest bit of weed or alcohol would give me anxiety and make me feel more high or drunk than usual but I've brought my tolerance back up a little bit sense the start of this happening but it doesn't help the fact that I still feel this why have gone to my local hospital and main doctor and both haven't found anything besides told me to see about getting put on medication rather than finding a true solution

    • quinn52560
      quinn52560 drako63450

      Posted

      Hello have you come to a conclusion what caused this? any treatments helped? I hope you are better I am experiencing the same thing

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