amrodri2
07-05-18, 17:10
It all started about a month ago. My brother in law had a stroke with a major brain bleed. This happened on a Sunday. That next Wednesday, while we were fixing to leave the hospital I felt a pop and then felt really warm and super dizzy. That's when all the symptoms started.
From that day and for the next 5 weeks I had so many horrible physical symptoms. Nausea that caused me to lose 15 pounds for fear of food making things worse. Headaches. Dizziness/lightheadness that make me feel like I was going to fall over. Changes in vision in my left eye, blurriness. And the most worrisome being my entire left side feeling weak/numb (from my face to my toes). The weirdest thing is I could feel myself when I touched my skin. A good nights sleep was non-existent. I also started getting the most horrible panic attacks, two to three per week. For a while I thought it was brain cancer (dr. Google) but they did a CT and ruled that out.
I went to the ER idk how many times thinking I was dying. Blood test came back normal, x-ray of chest and lungs came back normal, cardiac work-up normal, CT normal, EKG normal. From the 3-4 trips they diagnosed me with anxiety and depression and wrote me prescriptions for medication. They refused to do an MRI of my brain as it "wasn't emergent". They told me to get it done through my primary care.
Since they said it wasn't brain cancer I went back to googling what could be causing the symptoms if it wasn't a tumor in my head and all I could find was an unruptured brain aneurysm. Every story that I read from survivors seemed to be taking to me.
I've been getting the worse headaches. Headaches like I've never had in the past and they scare me. They are very localized and intense. They don't quite fit the profile for cluster headaches which makes me freak out even more.
I know people say aneurysms have no symptoms, but there are so many posts I found saying if you have certain symptoms to see your doctor. I have had all of them, including what I believe to be sentinel headaches this past week.
My anxiety has calmed down a bit and i'm not getting all the physical symptoms as much anymore but now I'm just walking around waiting for the worst headache of my life. I'm so scared to be in a room by myself for fear that it's going to rupture and there will be no one there to help me and I'll die.
They scheduled me with a cardiologist just to be on the safe side. I also have an MRA scheduled for next week but I'm so scared I won't make it til then and it'll be too late.
Any one have a similar experience and end up ok? Help, I'm kinda freaking out. :unsure:
From that day and for the next 5 weeks I had so many horrible physical symptoms. Nausea that caused me to lose 15 pounds for fear of food making things worse. Headaches. Dizziness/lightheadness that make me feel like I was going to fall over. Changes in vision in my left eye, blurriness. And the most worrisome being my entire left side feeling weak/numb (from my face to my toes). The weirdest thing is I could feel myself when I touched my skin. A good nights sleep was non-existent. I also started getting the most horrible panic attacks, two to three per week. For a while I thought it was brain cancer (dr. Google) but they did a CT and ruled that out.
I went to the ER idk how many times thinking I was dying. Blood test came back normal, x-ray of chest and lungs came back normal, cardiac work-up normal, CT normal, EKG normal. From the 3-4 trips they diagnosed me with anxiety and depression and wrote me prescriptions for medication. They refused to do an MRI of my brain as it "wasn't emergent". They told me to get it done through my primary care.
Since they said it wasn't brain cancer I went back to googling what could be causing the symptoms if it wasn't a tumor in my head and all I could find was an unruptured brain aneurysm. Every story that I read from survivors seemed to be taking to me.
I've been getting the worse headaches. Headaches like I've never had in the past and they scare me. They are very localized and intense. They don't quite fit the profile for cluster headaches which makes me freak out even more.
I know people say aneurysms have no symptoms, but there are so many posts I found saying if you have certain symptoms to see your doctor. I have had all of them, including what I believe to be sentinel headaches this past week.
My anxiety has calmed down a bit and i'm not getting all the physical symptoms as much anymore but now I'm just walking around waiting for the worst headache of my life. I'm so scared to be in a room by myself for fear that it's going to rupture and there will be no one there to help me and I'll die.
They scheduled me with a cardiologist just to be on the safe side. I also have an MRA scheduled for next week but I'm so scared I won't make it til then and it'll be too late.
Any one have a similar experience and end up ok? Help, I'm kinda freaking out. :unsure: