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anxiety disorder catchall for I don't know diognosis
Symptioms which started 11 mo. ago suddenly: constant dizziness/floating, Heaviness, cloudy memory, trouble multitasking including clumsiness and dropping things, tasks requiring concentration results in nausia and headaches especially in temples and top of head. Ability to focus diminished...eyes get tired easily. Mood is fine. Don't feel depressed. Neurologist says I might be dizzy forever and says I'm ok and other doctors don't know what they're doing. My promary doctor says I have "bilateral peri ventriculular white matter hypertensities representing chronic microvascular disease" as he interprets my MRI. Don't know what any of this means. I'm on adderall, blood pressure and cholesteral medication, wellbutren, baby asperin. I'm strong and have a good heart...don't smoke...no drugs ever and mild alcohol use (glass if wine 1-2 times a week). My mother had many health issues...type 1 diabetes, thyroid removed, rhumatoid arthritis, heart disease and so on. I have hashimoto's but not on synthroid anymore (Kaiser won't authorize). Was exposed to Mercury vapor and ore constantly for 1 year when I was a child and lived at New Almaden Quicksilver Mine (don't know if this would matter at all). I can't work...concentration equils headaches and nausea after about 1/2 hour. I have a headache writing this now. I don't believe that I have "anxiety". My therapist says my issues are physical not mental. Question....What is wrong with me....how can I be tested...what may happen next?
"Bilateral peri ventriculular white matter hypertensities representing chronic microvascular disease?"
Say what?!
I don't know what that is. I admit, I admit, I googled it and came up with a bunch of other words I don't understand, but whatever it is, there MUST be some shorter English words that 'splain it.
Let me cut to the chase here. There's a guy on this forum name of Ryan who goes by RCA7591 (he's named after a vacuum tube -I couldn't make that up) and trust me, he knows something about exposure to "heavy metals" and the possible effects thereof. And also probably knows what peri ventricu... whatever, is about, or can find out. Because he is well informed on medicine and on medications -and wants to make a career of it- he is a pretty good resource. Look for him, and pose your questions to him.
Now, as for me, I'd say to my doc exactly what I said to you: "Say WHAT?!" Or maybe, "What thje %)(*@@! are you talkin' about?!" I find it abominable that he/she didn't tell you. Matter of fact, I DO know some big words which I sometimes throw at the docs just to let them know that I, too, can talk funny. Like this:
"Doc, I've just come off a very critical case of inverse condemnation conditioned on a clause in a non-subrogation agreement relative to riparian rights established under a non-transferable piracy covenant. What do you suggest?"
Take that!
The title of your query is intriguing: "anxiety disorder catchall for I don't know diagnosis." As many people here will tell you, they wonder the same thing. And as many doctors will tell you -if they are honest and not late for a golf date- it can be tempting to lean toward anxiety when you can't figure out anything else.
But, here's the deal: Whether or not there is "anything else," whatever bothers you, BOTHERS you and if it does so enough, it causes anxiety which may be bad enough to be treatable in its own right. It is hard to imagine ANY serious condition (or the prospect of one) that does NOT involve an anxiety component, which may well achieve a kind of life of its own. Moral of the story: don't dismiss it.
That, my friend, is the best I can do at the moment. I hope you will keep us advised.
Oh yeah: second opinion? You bet. It might be nice to even have a FIRST opinion, far as that goes.
-Good luck!
Say what?!
I don't know what that is. I admit, I admit, I googled it and came up with a bunch of other words I don't understand, but whatever it is, there MUST be some shorter English words that 'splain it.
Let me cut to the chase here. There's a guy on this forum name of Ryan who goes by RCA7591 (he's named after a vacuum tube -I couldn't make that up) and trust me, he knows something about exposure to "heavy metals" and the possible effects thereof. And also probably knows what peri ventricu... whatever, is about, or can find out. Because he is well informed on medicine and on medications -and wants to make a career of it- he is a pretty good resource. Look for him, and pose your questions to him.
Now, as for me, I'd say to my doc exactly what I said to you: "Say WHAT?!" Or maybe, "What thje %)(*@@! are you talkin' about?!" I find it abominable that he/she didn't tell you. Matter of fact, I DO know some big words which I sometimes throw at the docs just to let them know that I, too, can talk funny. Like this:
"Doc, I've just come off a very critical case of inverse condemnation conditioned on a clause in a non-subrogation agreement relative to riparian rights established under a non-transferable piracy covenant. What do you suggest?"
Take that!
The title of your query is intriguing: "anxiety disorder catchall for I don't know diagnosis." As many people here will tell you, they wonder the same thing. And as many doctors will tell you -if they are honest and not late for a golf date- it can be tempting to lean toward anxiety when you can't figure out anything else.
But, here's the deal: Whether or not there is "anything else," whatever bothers you, BOTHERS you and if it does so enough, it causes anxiety which may be bad enough to be treatable in its own right. It is hard to imagine ANY serious condition (or the prospect of one) that does NOT involve an anxiety component, which may well achieve a kind of life of its own. Moral of the story: don't dismiss it.
That, my friend, is the best I can do at the moment. I hope you will keep us advised.
Oh yeah: second opinion? You bet. It might be nice to even have a FIRST opinion, far as that goes.
-Good luck!
Find another doctor and get a second opinion. Have your therapist recommend one if he can. If neither you OR your therapist thinks it's anxiety it may not be. White matter is normal around the brain and even white matter hypertensities is normal for the aging process and can be found in younger people too, it often has no complications from what I know. But your doctor is saying the hypertensities is directly related to the micro vascular disease? That is when the smallest coronary arteries in your heart are blocked damaged or not working right. I know that heart failure patients usually show gray matter loss in some areas of the brain so it definitely can be related. You need a second if your doctor diagnosed you with that and then said it's all in your head he's insane. Go to a cardiologist, a private one if you have to and get this looked at from a fresh point of view.
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