i am a 20 year old female. 2 1/2 months ago i was forcefully dry heaving (dont ask way please) and all of a sudden in the middle of it my head became really foggy. when i say foggy i mean i feel i feel like iv had a few drinks ALL the time. it never goes away, its always there. along with headaches and tiredness. i have gotten a ct and spinal tap (normal) and blood work (normal) i so scared. i cant live my life like this. its so hard to want to do anything. getting harder to work and im scared it will ruin my relationship. its all i think about. i look stuff up all day which acually makes it worse because i see stuff about people feeling like this for years and having no idea what it is. PLEASE i need any kind of help. im scared for my life. im not a depressed person but this has made me depressed. one minute i have hope the next i brake down and cry scared that this will be my life. please do not ignore this post. i need your help. remember this all started from forceful dry heaving. what did i do to myself? was that the acual cause? i dont know. please. help. thank you
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Did you have a MRI of your brain?
Please don't force yourself to throw up again. Stop it. Period. doing that is not good for you. I've been there and it is so hard on the internal organs.
(((Big Hugs))) and keep trying to find out whats going on.
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i know i thought nothing of it but i regret in more than anything now. ugh it is the scarest thing in the world not knowing if you will ever feel normal again and be able to have your life back. i have not had a MRI yet. doctors wont let me but i finally have a apt tomorrow with a neurologist and hopefully he will let me get one.
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Have you checked out the anxiety board? You might have made yourself dizzy at the time, but have now gone to the anxious side of life, that's assuming that you are tested and everything comes back as normal. Anxiety can cause real, physical symptoms but can be treated like any other illness. Just a thought as a possibility to explore.
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its not likely that the dry heaving was the cause, its more likely that both the dry heaving and how you feel are caused by the same thing,dont discount anxiety or depression a lot of people spend years looking for other answeres because they cant accept they have depression/anxiety
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The only reason I mentioned it is because I have family that suffers from anxiety and had many of the same symptoms you mention. They are perfectly happy people with no depression or stress, just that pesky anxiety. What did your Dr's have to say about your results and your symptoms? Did they have any suggestions on where to go from here?
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nope she said shes not a miracle worker....so iv been trying to find a new doctor. i was acually on an anxiety med when this all happeneed. i got off of it about a month ago because when they did my blood work my liver was a little off and the stuff i was on was not good for your liver (prozac) but the doctors said the liver has nothing to do with why i feel this way
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cant be the withdrawal because it happened a month before i got off of it. thank you for trying to help! i really hope that no more doctors just kick me to the side and act like its nothing.
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Again, I doubt very much that dry heaving would cause headaches so that may just have been coincidental. Have you had the hematology labs done, in addition to the chemistry? Have you had your thyroid levels checked as well as immunolgy done? Have you had your eyes checked, both for vision and physical? Are you on any other meds that might have side effects? Do you stay well hydrated? Just a few more thoughts, in addition to anxiety, to maybe look into, though again, I'm not a Dr.
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idk if i have had hematology or chemistry labs done. i have gotten my thyroid levels checked along with alot of other things. also been to an eye doctor and i got off all meds. cat scan and spinal tap done also which are normal
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Amongst the Hematology test is one that measures inflammation and the chemistry tests are for a first glance to see if something autoimmune going on. You can request copies of all your tests, BTW. I would also suggest that you keep a journal of your symptoms, what you were doing when they come on, and at what time of day. Or if your headache is constant, does it ever get worse after doing something or at a certain time.
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the spacey drunk feeling is ALL the time along with tiredness. the headaches come and go. all i know is that it started in the middle of dry heaving. i dont just understand this. i literally just got back from the neurologist and they said nothings wrong there and i begged for a mri and they said no that nothing is wrong. ugh what could it freakin be. i cant be stuck like this. it will ruin everything
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has your doctor actualy ruled out anxiety,or has it been suggested as the cause and you dont like to say?
your sympyoms would suggest you are suffering from anxiety,you should explore this first
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how do they acually diagnose anxiety?? i just dont get it because it happened when i was dry heaving. can that have been a trigger to the symptoms? and this is like the best time of my life so why anxiety now? i would have understood having it years ago but now. only reason i cant get to believe thats what it is. doctors do keep saying that is what it is but i feel like thats just being they cant come up with anything else
