Spaced out, high, Drunk Feeling. Please help me. (5 MONTHS)
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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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laura53523 ecdirtdevil
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ask for an mra or cta to rule out blood flow issues.. as standard mri is good but don't always pick up these small things mra with contrast is a specific test for the flow or blood vessels mri can miss this I hav been doin my homework and my friend who does boxing wen they hav tests done for there pro boxing they hav to hav a mra done not mri. if u Google the difference between the 2 u will c they show completely different results I suggest u get one done of head and neck Mra is a gd test I think ct angiogram can b very good also jus ur exposed to radiation from this. of they refuse u could pay for one urself which I am currently doin cause I am also having problems similar to urs.. and hav a neck injury..... and similar things to u. I'm in a n e all the time I was there yesterday due to nearly fainting and I took a table wiv me and broke my toe by pulling the table onto me.... hope u get answers as so do I. I actually hope I hav this test done and can go to the doc and say f**k u I knew sumthing wasn't right. don't tell me everything is fine wen it isn't
XylonNorox ecdirtdevil
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I'm not sure if my issue is the same as yours but it certainly is similar and it is so frustrating to deal with doctors that do not take you seriously. I see that this was posted a few years ago now. How are you doing did you find any answers?
Matei3321 ecdirtdevil
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I also have the same problems and im also 20, they started a year ago as far as I remember, been to many doctors, all the results also comes out positive and doctors says that im healthy. To be honest i started thinking that is sort of brain problem, I also had a pretty hectic and rough year, a lot of stress, drug use, parties, anxiety, lost a lot of sleep, I think from all of that I came to a point where i have a chronic fatigue, I dont feel stressed since I have been through a lot but deep down I think there is stress. I went yesterday to a Neuro scinece centre, where they did a brain map to my head, im still waiting on the results but the girl told me that from her experience they will put me on therapy since the brain levels are not right, basically my brain is mostly always active and I dont know how to relax anymore, because i have these problems they also stress the brain since they dont go away but they tend to exist since im stressing over them. This can also cause bad sleep, even if u sleep 8 hours the brain doesnt relax in that time so it wakes up tired. This can cause low immune system which can cause all the other problems. I will let u guys know how it will go, also I had sinus surgery, but I didnt see an improvement.