Stephanie Lynne
New member
Hello. I would like to thank you for reading about my situation, and I am at the point of looking for help anywhere it can come from.
I am 17 years old, male and caucasian.
About 2 years ago, I began to experience dizziness, vision problems (hard to keep up with movement, blurs around whatever I am not focusing on, and floaters (not sure that is the best term) that look like a flicker spot on a movie theatre screen. I have noticed it occurs within the hallways more, but also within the classroom. I have somewhat decided that bright lighting does not help with the situation, but find it hard to believe that is the sole trigger.
I used to be able to deal with it, the situation was dealable, but lately (few months) have been increasingly worse to the point of extreme anxiety.
I visited an urgent care after recommendation of a nurse on the phone (2 months ago now) and they thought it may be something such as mono. Did tests and resulted negative.
Then visited the real doctor who suggested I go to a neurologist but suggested that migraines may be the problem.
I visited the neurologist and was given Amitripytylene I believe in a dosage of 25mg. I did not take this because a relative had horrible experiences, and my problems are the side effects listed. This neurologist was bad. He had me guessing for answers and to me came of as someone not knowing what to do, and passed this off instead. He also said it could be migraines too.
I also visited the eye doctor and he said nothing is wrong with my eyes.
Now here is the thing with migraines that everyone seemed to think. These symptoms (in detail: fatigue, lightheadedness, dizziness, sinking feeling of being on a boat, plus the mentioned eye problems) have come virtually every single day. Headaches have become a consistent thing, although not everyday for only the past couple weeks. How could a migraine occur every day with headaches resulting in a tiny fraction of those days.
I will be making a new appointment soon, but any advice or thoughts of what this could be or what to do to relieve pain at home would be help and I cannot thank you enough.
I am 17 years old, male and caucasian.
About 2 years ago, I began to experience dizziness, vision problems (hard to keep up with movement, blurs around whatever I am not focusing on, and floaters (not sure that is the best term) that look like a flicker spot on a movie theatre screen. I have noticed it occurs within the hallways more, but also within the classroom. I have somewhat decided that bright lighting does not help with the situation, but find it hard to believe that is the sole trigger.
I used to be able to deal with it, the situation was dealable, but lately (few months) have been increasingly worse to the point of extreme anxiety.
I visited an urgent care after recommendation of a nurse on the phone (2 months ago now) and they thought it may be something such as mono. Did tests and resulted negative.
Then visited the real doctor who suggested I go to a neurologist but suggested that migraines may be the problem.
I visited the neurologist and was given Amitripytylene I believe in a dosage of 25mg. I did not take this because a relative had horrible experiences, and my problems are the side effects listed. This neurologist was bad. He had me guessing for answers and to me came of as someone not knowing what to do, and passed this off instead. He also said it could be migraines too.
I also visited the eye doctor and he said nothing is wrong with my eyes.
Now here is the thing with migraines that everyone seemed to think. These symptoms (in detail: fatigue, lightheadedness, dizziness, sinking feeling of being on a boat, plus the mentioned eye problems) have come virtually every single day. Headaches have become a consistent thing, although not everyday for only the past couple weeks. How could a migraine occur every day with headaches resulting in a tiny fraction of those days.
I will be making a new appointment soon, but any advice or thoughts of what this could be or what to do to relieve pain at home would be help and I cannot thank you enough.