Could All This Be Ptsd or it's epilepsy or panic attacks ? Posted: 08-13-07 17:37pm
HI I LIVE IN TEXAS. HERES MY STORY.
Sometime in November one day I went out
with my boyfriend, my sister and her
boyfriend. At night we went back to my
sisters’ house. It was raining and I was
driving. My tires skid into a puddle of
water and I got a flat tire and I crashed
into a pole. As I ran into the pole I felt
my head and neck moved back and forth with
great force. I never did go to the doctor
that night. After the accident I felt
fine. A couple of days later I had a minor
cold. I had drippy nose and I coughed a
lot. I coughed for several days and took
medicine for the cold. One day I took
medicine and went to bed. I woke up in the
middle of the night feeling nauseated and
coughed a lot. I threw up so much that I
threw up blood. I was scared and my
stomach hurt a lot. I went to the Dr. and
I told him what happened and he sent me to
have a test done over my stomach. I went
back with my Dr. after I had my test done
and he said I had acid reflux. He told me
it was minor. He gave me pills for that.
After a week I felt normal again. My cold
was gone. Around two days later I had the
worst migraine ever. My migraine lasted
all day. I took Tylenol and it helped a
little. I also put ice on my head. After a
couple days I started getting throbbing
headaches. It was less painful then the
migraine I had. My headaches hurt so much
that the front of my head felt tingly and
became numb at times. With my headaches I
also felt a strong pressure on my chest. I
felt like it was difficult to breathe. The
pressure would go and come back in times
whether I was at home, at school, driving,
etc. My mom mentioned it was heartburn.
While I felt this I would drive my car.
For a couple of days I thought my car had
a burning smell. I thought I smelt gas or
something similar to it. While I was
driving I felt like it was difficult to
breath and my heart was beating really
fast. I thought I was going to have a
stroke. At times my hands became numb. I
opened the windows but that didn’t help.
A couple of times I stopped driving when I
was on the road and parked somewhere
because I ran out of breath and could not
concentrate on the road. At times I also
burped a lot and had a strange taste in my
mouth. It tasted like gas. When I burped I
tasted it and smelt it coming out from my
mouth. I told my parents and they drove my
car for a week. They told me they felt and
did not smell anything. They said the car
was fine. I drove my car again and felt
the same thing. One day I was at home and
felt like I could not breathe. My parents
took me to the clinic. The doctor and
nurse checked my oxygen level and blood
pressure. It looked normal. They also took
an x-ray of my chest and an EKG. It all
came back normal. I told the Dr. about the
taste and smell of gas I had coming out of
my mouth. I told them that I thought it
might be carbon monoxide. He decided to do
a blood test to see if it was a
possibility. A week passed by and I got a
call and my blood test came back normal.
All I had was low potassium, but this was
not anything major. I kept having the same
symptoms. More weeks passed by.
I went to rent a movie one day with my
boyfriend. Inside the store I felt out of
breath. My hands started tingling, so we
decided to leave. When we got in the car I
felt lightheaded and out of breath, like
someone was pressing hard against my
chest. Beside my hands feeling tingly, I
also felt my face, chest, and legs feeling
tingly. It also felt like my veins and the
inside of my body was cold. My boyfriend
told me I looked very pale. I felt like I
was going to pass out. So I told my
boyfriend to take me to a different clinic
then the one I went to last time. When I
got there, once again, they checked my
oxygen level and blood pressure and it all
came back normal. They also did another
x-ray of my chest and an EKG. These tests
also came back normal. The Dr. told me
what I had were panic attacks. He gave me
medicine for my panic attacks. A couple
weeks have passed by and I felt better. I
learned to control my attacks. The Dr.
said I had a lot of stress, even though I
did not feel it. I told him I have a calm
life. After the Dr. told me this, I
dropped two classes out of four from
college.
I felt a little better until I
freaked out. My boyfriend and I were at my
house getting ready to eat Chinese food at
a restaurant. I had a bad headache and I
felt my chest pressing again. The inside
of my chest felt cold. All at once I felt
like a lot of tiny needles from the top of
my head falling down until I felt the
inside of my head completely empty and
numb. It felt like a balloon floating. I
was so scared I thought my skull or brain
was going to fall. My boyfriend calmed me
down. From then my head has been numb. It
is just the inside of my head. I felt like
my head is going to fall off, so I held my
head with my hand a couple of weeks.
One day I went to stay with my sister at
her home. I began to have a headache so I
went to bed. I tried to sleep but my
headache got worse that it woke me up when
I was barely falling asleep. I felt like
pins and needles were scratching and
cutting the inside of my head, esp. on the
back of my eyes. I could not stand the
pain. My sister took me to the emergency
room. I waited about 6 hours and the pain
was unbearable. I never cried so much in
my life. When I saw a Dr. he put an IV on
me because he said I looked dehydrated. He
gave me pills for the pain and I went
home. I took them and they sort of helped.
A couple days later, I felt pain around my
eyes, cheeks, ears, and nose. I also felt
like something cold was dripping from the
inside my head. My mom thought it was
mucus. She thought it could be a sinus
infection. So I put on nose spray for
about two weeks. The headaches got worse
that I could not sleep at night. I decided
to go back to the clinic and the Dr. gave
me sleeping pills, Vicotin for the pain
and he decided to give me a CAT Scan to
see if I had a sinus infection. I got
blood drawn out to see if my thyroid was
normal, to check my blood count, and for
other tests. I took the pills and I felt
less pain. I could sleep now at night. In
about a week, I went back to the Dr. and
he told me my CAT scan was normal. I told
him I still have pain. I told him I felt
like I had something thick and sharp,
needlelike sensation, poking the back of
my eyes and cheeks. It felt like something
was pulling my eyes out. It was like wires
were wrapped around my eyes. The Dr. told
me he was going to do an MRI. I went to
have my MRI done and I did not get my
results until two weeks later. During one
of those weeks, I went to vacation with my
family. When we got there my head started
to hurt horribly, painfully bad. I felt
that I had something falling from the top
of my head. It felt like many sharp pins
and needles, at once, were falling and
piercing and cutting all the way through
the inside of my eyes, nose, the sides of
my ears and my tongue. When I felt this,
it also had a burning sensation. It felt
like the inside of my head was on fire. I
had this feeling all day and all night.
The pain was so bad I was shaking and
could not stop crying. The next day in
Mexico I decided to go see a neurologist.
He told me based on my symptoms that it
sounds like it could be epilepsy with a
complicated migraine. He sent me to the
hospital to do an MRI and to have an EEG.
I did these tests and went back to him. He
told me everything came back normal. I
told him I felt the inside of my head
completely empty and numb, like there was
just a hole inside my head. My head felt
wobbly. I also felt like a lot of tiny
needles were falling down from the top of
my head. When this happened I felt the
needles or whatever sensation it is giving
me shocks or static, or electricity. I
felt the shocks inside my head and also at
the bottom of my feet. It felt so weird
and painful. The Dr. told me, once again,
based on my symptoms that the closet thing
I could have is epilepsy. He thought I
might get seizures. He gave me medicine.
He gave me Topomax and Keppra for epilepsy
and some medicine for the pain.
When I got back to USA I went to the
clinic for my MRI results. The Dr. told me
my results came back normal. He told me to
not take anymore of the medicine I was
given in Mexico because I do not have
epilepsy. He said this medicine was not
necessary and it could ruin my digestive
system. He sent me to have a urine test
and I had a minor infection. He gave me
pills for that. He also gave me floxentine
pills. He thought that everything I had
was caused by stress, but I believe its
something else besides stress. He said he
was going to fax some papers so that I
could see a neurologist and have an EEG
done. I still have not seen a neurologist
nor have my EEG done yet. But I should
soon.
I only took the pills the Dr. gave me for
a couple of days because my stomach hurt a
lot. I also lost my appetite. I hardly ate
food. I also could not sleep during those
days. I went back to the Dr. and he told
me to stop taking all the medicine I was
given. He gave me Nexium pills for my
stomach. He told me not to take any other
pills except Tylenol or Ibuprofen for my
headaches. He also draws blood to see if I
had any stomach problems. I started taking
my pills and my stomach felt better and I
could sleep at night now. Since then until
now I have felt different sensations
inside my head, but being completely numb
and empty. My head has felt completely
numb for around two months. One day I felt
like there were wires inside my head. I
felt like there were pins and needles, I
felt like my head was on fire. I felt like
I had air or my head was cold inside. I
had a sensation like wires were pulling my
skull or my head out of my head. I had a
sensation like water falling from the top
of my head. It felt cold. I also had
itching and tingly sensations inside my
head. Almost everyday I have different
sensations inside my head. Some days I
would have ringing in my ears and my
vision would see white spots for just a
second.
Recently, my head feels like the numb
sensation I mentioned. I am sometime still
feeling like the sensation that something
is falling from the inside of my head,
sometimes a cold sensation. This sensation
I have also felt in my neck and now I also
feel my neck empty or numb. With this my
neck hurts a lot. It feels like my head is
heavy and wobbly and makes my neck and
shoulder hurt. I also feel like my body
feels heavy, like it is tired. But I can
move my body well, function well; see
well, do all the normal stuff. I never had
a fever either.
Now it is July 2007 and I have gotten new
symptoms. I get chills at night inside my
whole body and sometimes during the day, I
feel congested, my chest gets really
tight. My throat also hurts. Sometimes I
can’t swallow my food. My throat feels
like it wants to go to the back of my
neck. I also can’t sleep because I have
to wake up every 20 min. to go pee. I
think I have a bladder infection. One day
I couldn’t sleep the whole night because
I felt like I had water trapped inside my
chest, I tried to sleep but I felt like I
couldn’t breathe and it woke me up over
and over again. I burped a lot. I also
have ringing in my ears. My ears hurt
sometimes too. My work had a health fair
and I had a test done for my ears. I had
to do a balance test and I had to close my
eyes and I feel over to the side twice. So
the Doctor told me I might have a severe
ear infection and that I should get it
checked out. One day I freaked out at work
because I had a lot of pressure in my head
and I felt like a pop sensation, like it
was expanding and I had the sensation of
something cold falling from my head. After
that I have gotten big horrible headaches
and a lot of pressure in my head. It feels
like a pump, pumping air into my head and
it just wants to shoot up. My neck hurts a
lot. It feels strain, wobbly. I think my
head has so much pressure because of my
neck feels weak. My head shakes a lot and
when that happens my body does too. I
went to the Doctor again and he gave me
tests to see if I had a throat infection
and a bladder infection. He told me I did
have a minor infection in my throat. But
he also told me I had a severe bladder
infection. I told him how I have been
feeling. He set up an appointment so that
I could see a throat and ear specialist.
He also set up an appointment so I could
have an EEG. As I mentioned before I saw a
neurologist before and he told me I had
stress (I believe it is not stress) and it
would go away in 3 weeks but it has been
longer and I felt like I have gotten worse
and that is why I have not got an EEG done
before. So the doctor gave me antibiotic
for my bladder infection and just in case
I have an ear infection.
Today July 26, 2007 around 7:00 p.m. I
went outside to walk around the block with
my boyfriend. As I was walking I felt my
head very cold and had a sensation of
something inside my head dripping down
like liquid and I freaked out. When I felt
this, I felt my head getting number and
air pushed inside my eyes and all around
my head. It felt like a balloon expanding
and when I felt something moving around
and falling down from the top of my head,
I thought my brain was going to fall down
or my skull just wanted to slip down. I
felt alot of pressure on the back and on
the front of my head. Could this sensation
be the cause of the medicine I am taking
(Amoxicillin) or could my head react to
that sensation because of a panic attack.
I still have a sensation like something
cold and lots of it dripping from the
inside of my head. My head also have alot
of pressure and also around my eyes. It
has so much pressure around my skull it
feels like my head wants to pop off. I
also have pressure around my nose like
someone wants to pull it off.
I have so much pressure on the back of my
neck it feels like my muscles are
squeezing really tight and it also feels
like its squeezing my throat and it
sometimes it hard for me to breathe. My
ear also hurts like its trobbing and also
i feel like my eyes are burning. I also
wake up exhausted, like my body is
detached. I can't stand the pressure in my
head and my eyes anymore.
I HOPE AFTER I HAVE THESE TESTS DONE
SOMEONE WILL FIGURE OUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH
ME. I AM SO SCARED. I WISH I COULD JUST
SWITCH PLACES WITH SOMEONE SO THAT THEY
COULD KNOW HOW IM FEELING. IS THERE ANY
WAY THAT THE MRI (WHICH I TOOK TWICE) AND
CAT SCAN COULD HAVE AN ERROR AND I HAVE
SOMETHING WRONG IN MY HEAD OR IS IT 100%
EXACT? IF IT WAS SOMETHING SEVERE I GUESS
I WOULD BE DEAD BY NOW. COULD THIS ALL BE
CAUSED BY STRESS? THE WORST FEAR I HAVE IS
DYING. I JUST HOPE NO ONE IS GOING THROUGH
WHAT I AM.
Medicine I have tooken:
Vicodin
Naproxen 500 mg
Uniclar nose spray
Keppra Levetiracetam 500 mg
Talpramin Imipramina 25 mg
Topomax 100 mg
Lorazepam 0.5 mg
MetoCLOPramide 10 mg
Nitrofurantoin Monohydrate Macrocrystals
Alprazolam 0.25
Floxetine 10 mg
Nexium
Amoxicillin
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nicholasj
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 10
Could All This Be Ptsd or it's epilepsy or panic attacks? Posted: 06-15-08 07:21am
Young lady, this sounds like a severe case
of stress, due to the auto accident.
This is how it works ... during the
accident you generated a lot of emotion,
most of it was fear. All emotion is
energy. Because you did not express the
fear outwardly your fear energy got lodged
in your body, including in your
neurological system, which is an energy
system. You need to drain the fear energy
from your neurological system and the rest
of your body. This is done in a number of
ways, and I suggest you do them all. I
have done all of them so I know how
powerful they are.
1. Find a chiropractor that practices
"network chiropractics". The word
"network" refers to the neurological
network. This chiropractor knows how to
touch key points of the neurological
system in order to drain the fear energy
from the system.
2. Find a homeopathic doctor who practices
acupuncture. Acupuncture is also a
powerful way to drain the system of
trapped energies.
3. Start practicing yoga-breathing ... the
form that is called "rebirthing". Find a
"rebirther", search the internet.
Rebirthing is very powerful for releasing
emotional energies from the body.
Pharmaceutical medications only treat
symptoms, not root causes. They might have
you "feel" better for a little while, but
they will not heal you. And they will
cause a whole lot of other problems that
weren't there in the first place.
The homeopathic doctor will know how to
get your body-chemistry back in shape.
Good luck to you.