Hey everyone, I posted in here a few months ago and got some great feedback but i'm still concerned. Around last fall sometime maybe around August/September I started to get very weird random feelings all throughout my body. It just hit me like a ton of bricks one day and scared the living hell out of me.
For a little background on myself, I have never had any medical problems in my life. The most i've ever had was a very bad throat virus in 2010 and I was in the hospital for three days. Other than that and separating my shoulder in football, I've never had anything wrong with me and my doctors have always told me i'm as healthy as anyone they have ever seen. I'm 26 years old, have a newborn baby girl (I absolutely love her to death) and other than not getting much sleep the last month and a stressful job, I live pretty stress free.
Anyways, I started getting these very very bad chest pains that were almost crippling. I went to my doctor and got everything checked and he even sent me to a Cardiologist for reassurance, everything checked out more than fine. So I chalked it up to me being stressed but the symptoms kept getting worse. The best way I can describe how I feel isnt dizzy or lightheaded, its almost as if Ive been constantly buzzed, not drunk, but a buzz, since around September. Some days are way, way worse, sometimes during the day I almost feel normal but I never get back to that "normal" feeling. Ive also had random nausea, very bad tinnitus randomly, my ears hurt, it feels like since then ive had mucus constantly in the back of my throat and in my nose, and now sometimes my left ear makes a very weird almost quick thumping sound then goes away and comes back. Sometimes i go weeks without hearing it, other times it non stop all day. I would also describe a lot of head pressure. Almost as if I was sitting upside down and blood rushing to my head. The other best way I could describe how I feel is, you know that feeling when you JUST wake up, you feel out of it or very weak? Thats how i feel and how my eyesight feels. Its not blurry or double vision, its more slow I guess you could say its weird.
My anxiety I will admit was pretty bad about 6 months ago, but I honestly believe its a by product of something else going on. I convinced my doctor to get me a brain MRI because I was having pretty bad headaches too. The results came back to a left side Very, VERY small Acoustic Nueroma, or vestibular schwannoma. Like the size of a pin head. My doctor sent me to a nuerosurgeon and he told me he wasnt concerned and that there isnt even anything there, if anything it was just a lesion on my nerve thats probably been there my whole life. So, that anxiety is gone for now I guess. But, of all the tests that have been run NOTHING is coming back abnormal. NOTHING. But I cant seem to figure out why I literally went from being a ridiculously active 26 year old, apparently health as anyone, to now where i barely leave the house.
I recently found what a CSF leak is and in all honesty, everything I have almost fits those symptoms to an absolute T. Could that be whats causing this? I'm literally desperate for answers at this point. I NEED to go back to how I was a year ago and feel normal again. I know anxiety is a big aspect of this and I'm not disagreeing whatsoever, but my physical symptoms have been nonstop for almost 9 months now and are absolutely ruining my life. I'm constantly dreading doing anything other than laying here or going anywhere for fear that I'm going to drop and have some serious medical emergency and need to be rushed to the hospital. I love my wife and my daughter to death and I just want to be here for them and be the best father I can be. I don't want my daughter growing up without a father because some doctors are missing something.
I need help with this situation in the worst way.