Please help! Strange symptoms!?
For almost a year I have been having pulsatile tinnitus on my left ear, visual disturbances, strong pulsing in my upper body, lightheadedness and irregular heartbeats. The lightheadedness is so bad, I kind of feel as If I am in a dream sometimes…it’s scary. The pulsing is so strong that when I am lying down I feel my body moving a bit along with every pulse.These symptoms are 24/7! I also get extremely dizzy and can not see for a few seconds when I stand up too quickly and there is extreme pressure on my chest when that happens.
I am 19 years old. I am overweight and I used to have high cholesterol but I got that under control. I have had blood work but everything came out normal. My blood pressure is normal. I’ve had an EKG, Echocardiogram, MRI w/ and w/o contrast of my brain, CT scan w/ and w/o contrast of my temporal bones and inner ears, 24 hour holter monitor and Carotid Artery Doppler.
Everything came out just fine except for the holter monitor which showed I had irregular heartbeats but I knew that already.
I am worried it might be something with my circulation or narrowing in either an artery or vein in my chest that is preventing my heart to give my brain enough blood flow.
Please help!!!
NO RUDE ANSWERS! AND I KNOW "GO TO THE DOCTOR" I AM GOING TO ONE THAT IS HOW I AM GETTING ALL THESE TESTS DONE BUT I JUST WANT SOME IDEAS OF WHAT IT COULD BE OR TO KNOW IF SOMEONE HAS GONE THROUGH SOMETHING SIMILAR.
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It sounds like your doctors are really trying to figure out what’s going on and thankfully, for you, nothing terrible has come out positive which means you are probably healthy. For all these symptoms, it may benefit you to take a serious effort to lead a healthier lifestyle. For being 19, your cholesterol should have never been high but it is understandable and I applaud you for managing to control it. So going back to a healthier lifestyle, there are many reasons why that you should consider even just walking 30 minutes a day and incorporating more fruits and veggies if you don’t already do so. This way, your exercising will strengthen your heart (like any other muscle in our bodies) and allow it to push blood to all your extremities and brain. Also, decreasing your weight at a healthy rate will allow your heart not to have to work so hard and take the pressure off of it. I wish you the best of luck and I hope you feel better soon. Take care!
Well, I’m not a Doctor. Have you had an Eeg? It’s a device used on the head to measure brain activity. It picks up any abnormal brain activity such as seizures. Maybe it’s a seizure disorder of some kind?
I’m sorry that you have to go through all of this, it must be hard. I honestly have no idea but I do know that diet can play a major role in making people sick. I know this sounds like a broken record but it is true. Do you also experience intestinal upsets at all?
There is this diet called the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (not a weight loss diet) which states that if your intestine is damaged you therefore cannot process foods. Basically not digesting the food causes your intestine to build up with bad bacteria. This bad bacteria then goes to your blood stream which causes problems in the body. Also, you can’t digest good foods so you are not feeding your body. Sorry, not a very scientific way of describing it. It could be a major long shot but I thought I would mention it to you. You could also try the diet for a week or two and see if it helps. If it doesn’t then you had nothing to lose and it was still worth a try. This diet also describes how there is a brain & gut connection. Hope you get better soon.
I have read a lot on the net about people who have had health issues that doctors were not able to diagnose. Their symptoms seemed to get better after being on the diet.