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

No Joke... I thought I wrote this.

I've found no "way-back" but, I have much relief in just living life to the fullest and making the most out of every day. I plan my desires and schedule it out in a "priority-list" rather than a scheduled-time. I feel so much more happy than 99% of the population, so I don't really mind the "debilitating" parts of this "Thing" we have. Honestly, it's quite nice being drunk off 2 sips of wine (lol, just took a couple sips of Grand Margarita at my favorite restaurant and everyone in the place was laughing with/at me haha good times).

We should talk more, I'd like to see how your life turned out compared to mine. My Ego is pretty "low" on the Human-Social Hierarchical structure of life-acclimation; but, I do myself a solid by living happy every day, LITERALLY no matter what.

Those symptoms brought me to this site. I suffer from epilepsy & had a seizure 7/9/19 that left me with permanent vision loss.

The 2nd week of May I started to get the Aura that I'm about to slip into seizure that didn't exactly go away. I wake up every morning & shower, drink my coffee, eat breakfast, & hope it does... It's shown up afterward every single day since.

I went to the ER where for labs & a CT Scan it came back clean. I called my Neurologist & all he can do is refer to my 2 MRI Scans & the ER report.

It feels like my Brain is shutting down & I've been clinging to my Depakote to prevent another life altering seizure.

It's nearly like being a prisoner inside my own body.

hi please tell me you got a fix for this? i've had the constant drunk feeling for 25 years im over my wits end its had such a negative impact on my life and learning capabilities

to say ive struggled through life would be an understatement. ive had various dead ends.

let me know how you have got on please. thank you

hello

i am having same issue up to some

extend, most of the symptoms match the above .

some are not.

kindly let me know latest diagnosis.

Thanks

Advocate

hey, i have been searching for so long to see if anyone is going through this same thing and you have exacly spot on everything ive been going through the last 8 months, i have feelings of fainting all the time and at this point im going insane. i just want to feel normal again 😦 doctors wont take me serious and say itll just pass but something is seriously wrong. it scares me and i feel like im dying. have you found a cure or whats wrong? i need answers 😦(

Hi Erik,

sorry to read your story, i just happened to come across your post. i have to say i have similar problem. I am 64 years, and was very active, but since this problem it has totally changed my everyday way of life. i started with my problem roughly 2 years ago, i started to have off balance sensation, feeling like i was drunk, then suddenly so tired and feeling quite ill. i had to rest. i thought it maybe a virus, and the dr took tests my blood sugar was a bit high and i had high blood pressure. The dr also did a Doppler test and it was found i had Carotid Stenosis 40% blockage (Build up of plaque in the artery.) This is treated with medication, over a period of time there was no improvement and i was getting worse. Due to the situation at the moment with Covid, i went to another Dr, who presumed i had vertigo, iv had allsorts of medication and it makes no difference.

i do not believe it is the stenosis, the off balance and tiredness also effects my eyes.

i have done much research on the internet and came across this similar symptom to vertigo called

Mar de Debarquement. This covers all my symptoms.maybe it will be of interest to you. i have to add, i did have a bad fall when my dogs knocked me off my feet, i wonder if i have a trapped nerve in the back of my neck. This is my next check. I have had scan to see if it was anything to do with my ears, this result was negative.

I hope you find out what your problem is, take care and stay positive.

hi

your symptoms may suggest Eagle's syndrome. often overlooked and even ignored by docs simply because it's rare.

condition can be diagnosed with CT scan, or sometimes even just with panoramic dental XRay scan. ENTs are the primary doctors diagnosing it, but even among them there is a lot of scepticism.

check this: www.livingwitheagle.org and check the symptoms list. also there is a page on wikipedia, and dozen medical pages like radiopaedia.org

your case and med history sounds a bit like the vascular version of the condition.

Hi guys. I'm 45 and have these drunk feeling episodes for 10 years. mine of which can last from a week to two weeks. I 've been on steroids for years then came off them as I believe i have muscle weekness in which I had injuries from doing next to nothing. My last neurologist gave me hope that he won't give up on me. he tried me on betablockers for possible silent migraines. I came off them recently after having a longer than normal episode...then he ditched me in lockdown.

. I've had all the tests thrown on me and I give up ever time until it effects my work so much it upsets me that I can't do my jobs properly. I feel less spunky when I'm on the move but bump into stuff. I hope you all get to the bottom of it. My last thought for me is that it must be nerve related so next time ill try and get that investigated. I have little hope. I don't want medications anymore just for doctors guess work, I just want answers like everyone else. all the best 💕

i found this new one one my search. cutting sugar and carbs out even though i dont have that much. just thought id pass it on.

Auto brewery syndrome is also known as gut fermentation syndrome and endogenous ethanol fermentation. It's sometimes called “drunkenness disease.” This rare condition makes you intoxicated — drunk — without drinking alcohol. This happens when your body turns sugary and starchy foods (carbohydrates) into alcohol.1 Nov 2018

hi, i have exactly the same symptoms. im constantly dizzy and feel like im on a boat. my vision cant focus on anything, its exactly as you say...im looking at things but its like im looking at nothing! ive been for 3 eye tests, ive had so many blood tests to check my iron levels, b12 etc...theyve all come back normal. i cant even drive my car! ive just turned 29 and i am struggling, ive got 2 children and these symptoms are driving me mad, ive even started to walk into things and im so clumsy and forgetting things all the time. this has been going on nearly 2 years for me...waiting for my ent referal but its taking so long, i cant function...just feel drunk all the time, and i cant even have a drink over xmas because it makes me feel sooo drunk with these symptoms and also the next day i still feel drunk all day! the doctors are not taking me seriously either! please reply if youve had any joy

I'm definitely going to follow this. The exact EXACT same thing happened to me starting 9/25/2019 and has never went away. I am so sorry you're going through this. I am a 26 year old female, so I can totally relate to the doctors not taking you seriously because of being young. I found that a humidifier gives me temporary relief, and also sitting up straight and then puffing my chest out a little. I hope you get better by some miracle. Having something like this is so disappointing because it changes your entire life.

Hey Erik just wondering have you ever had a tilt table test done? it may be worth getting one done I say this as I get this with Pots syndrome (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) just thought as pots can be brought on by traumatic events I.e falls but I hope it has subsided for you and you don't need to look into it further 😊

i have very similar symptoms. one day in 2017 i was outside not feeling great and i felt a weird sensation on my left arm by the bicept..i immediately panicked and thought heart attack..went to er n it ended up being gas...next day woke up took 3 steps and bam couldnt see anything all was blurry n i felt out of it...nothing i did helped it cause me to have panic attacks thag i had never had..after 3 days i went to dr and nothing..my work nurse suggested i take a cdiff test...that came back positive..my vision stayed auper blurry and to top it off i had fever n diarreah..they loaded me up with antibiotics to kill cdiff ...one day my blurred vision kinda just cleared itself but not to where it was it felt different..like i was not able to focus..and apotty weird vision...along with dizzyness with looking down and pressure on my sinus on top of my nose on bridge..even after cdiff was gone the foggy head..weird vision still continues till today if i get on a treadmil for 5 min n work up a sweat when i get off it gets amplified and almost feel like fainting..if i stair like at a vent that holds filters you knowcthe ones with many lines it makes me feel weird and i cant tell the lines apart ...its so weird...and recently when i drank a beer for the first time since it started i noticed that one beer got me super buzzed almost drunk.. very similar to OP....has anyone gotten over this? what was the solution? im desperate 4 years of not being myself sux.

My name is Jake, I was in my second week of testing positive with COVID. The first week I was doing good, minor fever, lose of test and smell all I felt was still manageable. week 2 comes along and I have may energy back. Except now I have this weird drunk sensation, and at night I have kinda hallucination like effect with lights and shadows. I also am feeling terrible GI track constipation. I went to the Hospital where they gave me a CT, MRI, X-rays. All scans came back negative. I also was nursing the fact I was bit by ticks, this might be from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I have a doctor running blood cultures to check. I had an Neurologist and an Optometrist looking into that also. while surfing the internet I came across this thing called Auto Brewery disease; brought on by fermentation in the gut, giving the sensation of being drunk. usually from a diet of carbs and sugars, that brews alchohol in the gut. brought on by poor digestion. I am going to speak with out local police department and explain this and request a breath-alyzer test just to rule out.