Fuzzy Head

[lauren9748]

For two years now, I have had this light headed, non-spinning, VERY fuzzy. The way I describe it is that I feel like I have cotton balls or something in my head.  My head doesn't HURT.. and I am not spinning.. But I just have this sensation that makes me feel like I want to close my eyes.  It is even worse when I am in stores where I have to look at a  lot of things, and it often makes me feel very nauseous. I feel like I always want to lay down and close my eyes, and feel this way from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed.

I have gotten many blood test, and EKG and and echocardiogram on my heart.  I feel like I should get a brain scan, or something, but the doctors keep telling me I shouldn't worry since nothing is showing up.  But It is so frustrating, and some days I just start crying and get really upset, because I keep thinking I have a tumor or cancer or something.  

So then I get anxiety, which obviously escalates my symptoms.  However, the doctors are like, well maybe you are feeling this was because you keep thinking you are dying and that you are worried. But I'm like..."I'm feeling worried because I have these symptoms!!" Do you know how I feel?  

lately I have been having this headache feeling that feels like head pressure (which the doctors think is a tension headache from stress, as well as chest pain/heaviness, which I also think is from my worrying.  I'm just so sick of dealing with this!)

I just want to figure out what is wrong.  I eat extremely healthy, do yoga, get acupuncture, meditate, etc.

ahhh. Does anyone have any reassuring words or any idea of what I could have??

[Scott696]

I feel the exact same and I know what my problem is. I was tested and I have chronic allergies. I am highly allergic to dust mites, grasses, and all of the common allergies. You may want to go and get a good allergy test.

My problem is I cannot treat them well enough. I feel fuzzy all of the time.

[petal8]

also have a fuzzy head. I have fructose/lactose malabsorbtion and possible amine issues, which I have been told coupled together cause the fuzzy head. I have been on a low fructose/lactose diet for 8 months now and it has helped a bit but still there. Some days I want to smash my head into a wall. After trialing the low amine diet for 2 months and still have fuzzy head I will be going onto a full elimination diet. I am 99% sure it is food related.

Steven.

[tjj3761]

Sorry to hear about your symptoms.

I agree with the doctor, that you should make an appointment with a neurologist for further evaluation.  

Feel better soon!

terri

[fuzzy_no_more]

Hi everyone

I was experiencing these same symptoms. I started getting symptoms of fuzzy head, poor concentration, dizziness about 6 years ago. In the past 3 years it seems to have become worse – so bad that I was becoming quite depressed, was reluctant to drive due to the feelings of fuzziness/ cognitive impairment. I didn’t feel like socialising with friends because I was having difficulty with speech and articulating my words. At work I struggled everyday to keep up with managing my work, using all my energy to try to keep focused on my work. Conducting meetings was hell!!

I promised myself if I were to ever find some relief from my symptoms I would come back to these posts to hopefully assist others with the same symptoms.

Two weeks ago a friend gave me a book about food intolerances. It’s called “Food Intolerance” by John Hunter MD, Virginia Alun Jones MD, Elizabeth Workman RD, first published in 1986. I decided that it was worth a try to do their ‘Exclusion Diet’. It was quite difficult for the first week (modifying my diet) and also about the fourth day I got what felt like a really severe head cold. It got a lot of mucus from my nose, extremely blocked nose and headaches. The head cold lasted about 5 days! I think this was my body trying to detox.

Since I started a diet excluding all wheat and oats in particular, every day I am feeling better and better. My diet has mainly consisted of rice products (rice bubbles for breakfast), salads, steamed vegies, boiled potatoes, and grilled meats such as chicken and beef. I have also been eating canned tuna. I have found that I get fuzziness symptoms following eating bread, muffins, oats. At the moment I am having milk in small quantities, but when I started the diet I only took rice milk. So far, dairy doesn’t appear to be causing me to feel fuzzy.

I was reading about coeliac’s disease this morning and some of the symptoms include dizziness, fatigue etc. I have not tested for this disease, but I plan to in the near future. I think it would help to put a name to my symptoms and take more control of my health and life.

I should note that I have had suspicions about wheat allergy for some time, but when I got an allergy test I wasn’t ‘allergic’, however I have since learned that ‘allergies’ and ‘intolerances’ are different. Intolerances won’t be picked up in an allergy test. The best way to test is to exclude it from your diet for some time and see if your symptoms disappear.

I’ve only been doing this diet for two weeks now, but I am feeling so much better! I actually feel happy again. I am less moody and impatient. I am able to concentrate on things, more sociable, doing more things that I love such as walking and driving. I am having less cravings for oily, fatty, baked foods.

Please don’t despair. Like you, I was absolutely desperate to get my life back. It is worth trying to alter your diet to see if you too are intolerant to some food/s which may be causing you these symptoms. I know that I am intolerant to wheat and oats. I will get tested for coeliacs disease. I wish you all the best, and hope that you may be free from these debilitating symptoms too.

[TracyB43]

I have the same symptoms as youve described and have had them for a little over 2 years.  Ive had 2 brain scans and they have detected a slight reduction in blood flow to my brain but im told it's nothing that they are clinically concerned about.

I also have tinnitus which ive had for over 15 years and the ringing in my ears has become gradually worse since this fuzzy head appeared.  I have my next hospital appointment with ENT to see if my head is linked to my ear in some way.

My fuzzy head too is continuous, there is no let up or anything that i can relate it to in terms of allergies.  Ive had sinus' checked, loads of blood tests which all came back clear.

It's a mystery but is debilitating, ive had time of work because i simply cant function and driving is out of the question.

If any solution is found at my next appointment, i will share it with you.

[Porkster]

Symptoms I have include dizziness, nausea, memory problems, humming/buzzing in the head, fuzzy head, low immunity, low calcium, tiredness, poor sleep, headaches, depression, skin problems, difficulty in maintaining concentration, limb pain/aches, irritability, forgetfulness.  

I am not the only one struggling with health my son and wife have had problems too due to what I believe is the mobile phone mast about 210 metres away. I have had most of the 15 years exposure as I work and live at home. The mast is in direct line with my house, electromagnetic radiation readings where I have been sitting upstairs show 'hot spots' which are high readings in the red and there are some around the rest of the house. Though apparently this is within ICNIRP 'guidelines'. I'd like to see those so called scientists involved with the ICNIRP guidelines sit there and see how they feel after such exposure and time.

Having been upstairs in my house working at my desk, I had to go to hospital because I had numbness, headache, pains, nausea and dizziness, I was later told by the doctors first is was a heart attack, then after scan that it was a stroke, then after another scan it was not. The latest scan though did expose a cyst on the brain. The specialist I saw did say that some of my symptoms, including the humming/buzzing/pulsing, I get could be related to the mast as it goes when I am way from the house. The doctors do not recognise mast exposure as being a problem, which of course is because of the Government and their 'Guidelines'.

Search Google for mobile phone mast dangers, cordless telephone wifi dangers, some of you will find the reason behind your symptoms too. We don't have wifi, microwave oven, cordless telephone because of my sensitivity now to this.

I can tell you having been through this nightmare, we have no rights when it comes to the mobile phone industry. The UK Government, city departments and others won't help and the mobile phone companies say they won't do anything. Most people at the moment do not realise the dangers and effects, hopefully soon they will.

I am now having to fight for someone to do something which means court action.