About six months ago, I started having these odd head issues that would cause some uncomfortable symptoms. Weird things could trigger the brain to do this. Some of the quick stuff has been, drying hair too hard after showering, or watching hockey games on TV. Later(since about the last month) the issues all became 10x more constant and it also led to the development of a panic disorder. They are now working together and making each other worse. it's so severe that I have attacks whenever I leave the house for things like doctors appointments. The work and tests for doctors are taking too long for me to handle. Also important to mention that vomiting is my worst fear and both the brain and panic attacks cause extreme nausea so its been extra miserable. I can't even try to walk the block around my house as either the brain issue gets bad or the panic or both at once. I'm 18 and should be healthy and not having to deal with something like this at this age. I want a normal early adult life. I have lots more close in details if anyone is interested in looking into this at all. Thanks for any help even if its just a nice reply. **** Colby
are you on any medication? have you recently stopped taking any medication or recreational drugs? these symptoms you describe sounds like withdrawals from something. the fear of vomiting, the lack of patience, the weird thoughts, all sound like severe anxiety. have you talked to a doctor or therapist about your symptoms? can you think of what event in your life might of happened to trigger this anxiety 6 months ago? i think i need more detailed information in order to help.
Well I’ve gone on and off of weed since my sophomore year of HS, but it’s not like I stopped and then all the issues occurred, so I’m pretty sure it’s not that. I haven’t used it at all since all this got very bad. I’m on lots of medication for anxiety, depression, nausea, and other reasons. I haven’t stopped any recently or at least since this got bad. But I do know is that my fear of vomiting all started when I got severely sick for two months with something different, and it caused bad nausea and car sickness for me. After feeling like I’m going to be sick, both outside and inside the house, so often caused me to develop this fear. By the end of my sophomore year I had gotten mostly over it and my entire junior year went totally sick free. Not sure why my head started having this weird tingling and pressure feelings start, but they did like I said about 6 months ago but got serious about 1 month ago. The same went for my anxiety. Before something had to cause my head to have those uncomfortable feelings and now they seem to happen whenever they want. They still do get worse when certain things occur though, like being in a anxiety inducing scenario or agitating my head by doing the wrong things, like watching TV or movies too long, or having my head semi violently move around, like if I’m running or trying doing some sports in my backyard. Getting an mri soon but its doubtful to give any answers. My psychiatrist gives me meds that can help some but can’t actually solve what’s going on. Currently it’s hard to see a therapist with all this going on so I haven’t been able to do that yet. I can get you a list of all the medications I’m currently on if that’s any help. Thank you so much just for responding.
get the MRI done and then go from there. not much i can tell you except maybe you are on to many medications, they are counteracting each other causing your brain to go nuts. maybe the dosages are wrong. mistakes can and do happen as psychiatry has a lot of guess work involved. they treat you based on what has worked for others. i had a similiar experience when i was on Wellbutrin, where i could not get out of my own way, bad nightmares, crazy thoughts, obsessive behavior and i felt like i wanted to crawl out of my own skin. different medications affect people differently as everyones chemical make up is different. so something that works for me, may not work for you. but you are correct, something is off, and i am betting one or more of those medications you take is the culprit. it may be necessary to come off everything and then start again with different medications, unless the doctor can figure out which med is causing the symptoms. it may be necessary to find a different psychiatrist. i had a psychiatrist that all he believed in prescribing was tranquilizers, i slept for 3 months, not kidding. To this day i stay away from middle eastern doctors or from India, who speak broken english. thats my fear. fear of vomitting is quite common actually. anyway, i hope this helps. you are not alone and you are not going to die. so hang in there
Thanks so much for the advice, I’m hoping and hoping that this gets better soon. Hope everything goes well with you David.