Hello all
Will try to make this as short as I can--- I'm a 33 year old male from North Carolina. I'm having vestibular and neuro issues along with strange cerivical/head sensations. Incidentally my BP is around 144/90
Basically in april of last year I had a strange feeling under my sternum when I was in bed going to bed, a kind of jolt when I breathed at a certain point of air capacity in bed. I also woke up feeling like I couldn't breathe after falling asleep. I then had trouble breathing during the day and felt like I was going to spazz out at any time. (I still feel that way).
Incidentally I was working on my car for a few weeks and was covered in antifreeze, oil, trans fluid a lot and also had to contort my body in bad positions, including neck.
Ok so I went to my primary care provider in fear and she shrugged it off as anxiety and gave me klonopin and a beta blocker. I took both and didn't like the feeling of them so I quit taking them. I then got a bad anxiety attack along with in-bed twitches. They seem to be kind of light startle twitches that manifest when I initiate movement. Often they seem to be under the skin. Anyway I still get that, along with the feeling that I'm going to spazz out. May well be anxiety, but not sure.
Ok so this past month I got a hemorhoid and changed chairs for a while in the den. I am a bad sloucher and routinely caught myself slouching very bad in this chair, thrusting my head to my chest. The hemorhoid resolved, but days after I got vertigo twice in a 5 day period, seperated by some dizzy spells. After the second vertigo spell I've had constant, intermittant dizzy spells and ear fullness for a couple weeks up to now. In the meantime (since last friday), I've had a neck issue that feels like a strong pressure sensation when i put my head up against the back of a chair or arm of a couch or whatever. I've tried to avoid that position that I did before, but I continue to have these issues.. I'm having small startle jerks when I initiate movement, also having random jerks I'm having that constant forboding spasm feeling, and often feel the pressure sensation in back of head when i orient my head in a certain way. Oh yeah, I'm constantly squinting my eyes as well - photosensitivity? It's debilitating to say the least. I'm really dreading work, or even waking up in mornings for that matter.
Apologies if this is slopily written, but I want to get it done haha
Any ideas on what I'm dealing with? I'm wanting to go to a neurologist, but am a bit unsure about how i should approach it - hospital or clinic? My individual insurance doesn't pay for sprecialists until deductable is met. Also what's the going rate on an MRI?
thanks a lot
Thanks for the response
well the neck problem has subsided a bit, and yes i have bad posture, etc. The dizziness comes and goes.. i can go outside at night and walk and run without much problem, but during the day it's almost constant dizziness. Today i have it with a headache, and feel twitchy again.. yesterday hardly twitchy.
I forgot to add that i have tinitus in my right ear; have had it constantly for years.. both ears can pick out freqs from 45~60 hz to 14(left) and 15k(right). The left ear seems to be the constant source of headaches (all my life), and seems to be the side that my dizziness seems to come from. but there's no tinnitus that I can find, although a tinny sound at times coming into one or both of the ears. Of course this is just what I'm percieving.. may not be the case.
Hello.Did this problem of yours resolve over time? or are you still dealing with it? I have been battling with these similar problems for over a month and now i wake up int he middle of the night in some kind of phsychosis like state where im always confused and have blurred vision . I believe this is stress from not knowing what is wrong with me.
I work hard play harder! Or the best it's the stress in your life. That is bs at it's finest. just say you dont know if you don't know Mr.Dr. person. But back to point. is yours almost like vibration in the head kind of dizzy but yet, like the chills with small vibration with head/vision like a CD skip w/tpwitches with loud ringing in ears after and you could never explain it correctly other than saying wierd. Am I close?