What is going on with me? Not processing things normally, impaired cognition, memory problems,

I read what you had to say and while I am not a doctor I had an illness that has some simular symptoms of what you talked about. The illness goes by a number of different names including Intercranial Hypotension, Spontanious Intercranial Hypotension, or Spontanious Hypotension of the Brain. You should look these up on google to find out more. I had this illness and some simular symptoms  to yours are can't retain new information, memory issues, processing things normally, forgeting the meanings of lots of words. What the gist of the above illness is this. You have a leak or leaks somewhere in your spine. This decreases your spinal fluid. The lose of spinal fluid causes the problems of yours that I listed above. You're brain is surrounded by spinal fluid and helps your brain function properly. With a loss of spinal fluid you're brain does not function properly causing numerous problems exactly like the symptoms of yours I listed above. The problem with this illness if in fact is this is  what you have is that 99% of doctors don't have a clue. You should probably start with an MRI though this test by no means is perfect. 

This illness is also rare. It affects 5 in 100,000 people. 

Heres what I reccomend  to get started on this. Look up this illness on line and learn more. Talk to your doctor and bring this illness up. However, do not be suprised if your doctor has not heard of it.

Contact many neurologist  in your area and bring the illness up. If that is not to your liking try doctors in the biggest city closest to your home.

Pay attention to addition symptoms and right them down. Be as aware as you can to your condition improving or getting worse and try to document this even though I can truly understand that having memory issues will cause this to be diffucult. I had terrible memory issues.

And finally feal free to contact me with any concerns you may have,

Sincerely,

Michael

I am having the exact same symptoms as you & am 2y into my journey. I am waiting for results from my 2nd MRI as this is what I think I have too, but was misdiagnosed on my 1st MRI as I had some of the tell tale signs on scan, but no headaches. I now know, that you don't need headaches with this condition, it is just v common, but not always present.

Push for an MRI & raise this condition with your doc.

Good luck & keep us posted. Feel free to private message if you prefer.

I was going to say that I do not have regular headaches, so it is good to know that one can still have this condition without the headaches. 

I will bring this up with my doctor. Will keep this thread updated!

Your story has really hit me and being your age and being so healthy sounds so familiar.

I couldn't help but notice, you mentioned you had taken antibiotics in the final paragraph. I also have been in a very similar situation to you, I am awaiting mri results which I will hopefully get back tomorrow from an orphathologist. I'm not sure if you can read my story, posted over a year ago? (If you can please read) What sort of anti-biotics was it you were prescribed? I was diagnosed a 'floxie' from a herbalist doctor. After months of neuro tests, mri scans, doctor app and a&e visits no answers. I still have symptoms today!

Please check out the website floxiehope - if you feel this may be you, please get in touch. I can help you on the way to recovery. May I mention though, it wasn't fluroquinlines I was prescribed it was trimethoprim.

Kerry

Giving an update: had an MRI, everything came out okay except that I have mastoiditis. So I am on antibiotics for that. The GP said if I don't feel better within 48 hours then I will go see an ENT, which I think I will do anyways just to ensure I am getting the treatment that I need. 

If I don't feel better in the next five days, I was thinking I would go get a second opinion from a neurologist (the interpreter of the MRI was a radiologist who relayed the info to my chiro who gave me the prescription for the MRI). 

I have also sent my info in to an endocrinologist friend for a third endo opinion. 

Also, the antibiotics that I took for the infection a few months ago was metronidazole, so that rules out being floxed. 

Hope you are all well. 

Peace and love.

Just updating you on my health!

I went and saw a counselor who recommended i see a psychiatrist. Since i had no conscious triggers, it made me cross out depression since i had very little understanding of the condition.

I got abattery of tests done and came out with clinical depression. Have been on 20 mg of prozac for two months and i am almost back to my 100% self. Totally unbelievble. This experience has changed my perspective on depression and mental illness as a whole.

The doctor says i will be on prozac for another 10 months to ensure i do not relapse. At this point i dont care what i have to take because nothing could make me feel worse than i did.

I wanted to thank you all for your help and suggestions. I am so happy this battle is over.

Peace and love always

The other thing that occurred to me was that I hadn't asked if you'd had your thyroid antibodies checked to rule out hashimotos if you are already hypothyroid? I guess it's probably not relevant now if the Prozac has improved everything though & if it all maintains.

I'm really pleased that you are feeling better. It must be a relief to get your life, energy & functioning back!!