I will try to keep this as brief as possible - thanks for any advice/help!
I'm a 28 year old female with a fairly nonexistent medical history. I started having strange symptoms about 8 weeks ago and would like any insight to either help me be at ease, or to start pestering my PCP a little more. Let me preface this by saying I do not suffer from anxiety, hypochondria,etc. (hate when doctors hint at this). Nor do I have a history of headaches/migraines.
I had a double ear and sinus infection in November (I get these whenever the seasons change- pretty routinely), given round of antibiotics but still had lingering headache/pressure- specific to back of head.
Beginning of December I left a lunch hour work out class- mild weight lifting and remember not feeling comfortable with a certain lift - especially in my neck. I get back to my office and immediately feel horrible - piercing back of head pain, floaters in both eyes, really shaky, and general out of it feeling. I went to a medexpress pretty immediately and they said sounded like a classic migraine, administered toradol shot- felt better within the hour. I've not had any floaters or visual disturbances since then.
Felt alright for a week, took a break from the gym. Noticed a lot of neck tightness and thought I had just pinched something or stress/muscle tension (work was stressful, holidays, I'm a mom to a one year old and four year old). Also started getting not quite vertigo because not dizzy- but not brain fog because didn't seem cognitively impaired. Just really spaced out feeling- almost a drunk feeling (I only drink socially- so not much at all regularly).
About a week and a half after "migraine" start getting head tingling. Pretty mild at first, noticed an ibuprofen helped. Couple days after that it got really annoying- not painful. Spread to left side of face and I kind of freaked out it may be a stroke and went to the ER. They ran a standard CBC panel, did an EEG, ct scan- cleared me as "fine". Cue health anxiety. Tingling and headache persistant over next several days and newly found insomnia. My now former PCP just threw a headache trigger journal and how to manage stress pamphlet at me. Ended up back in ER - felt like absolute death (tingling and visibly trembling) - elevated blood pressure (said related to "stress") and was sent home with an...ear infection. Started another round of antibiotics.
Made appointment with new PCP- he ran a gamut of blood panels not originally done - some thyroid, deficiencies. Came back borderline low vitamin d, and a low TSH- so ran more thyroid panels (inconclusive?). I mentioned web mding and freaking myself out with MS- he said not likely but wanted to run an MRI to rule a few things out. He thought I just had a really nasty persistence sinus infection.
MRI clear- but showed sinus infection still present. That's it.
MRI was done 12/30. Head tingling a lot better, but also sleeping and not allowing myself to stress out so maybe that's why.
I do now how feet tingling (both feet, fairly consistent for 4 weeks), and occasional right leg weirdness- almost like goosebumps but not cold. I'm not bothered by the heat (showers, bath, running, sauna). I feel pretty shaky - but have really cut gluten and processed foods out of my diet to try and feel better- not sure if that could be related. I'm not visibly shaking.
Any advice? Would love if someone could explain how MS isn't probable. Lyme? Really all just vitamin d deficiency? Thyroid?
I'm finding myself obsessing over what could be wrong? I don't have any debilitating symptoms, just enough annoyance to know something isn't quite right.
I do want to throw out there that I did have what was diagnosed as Bell's palsy from May to June of 2008, completely cleared up. It has made given me a bit of worry though over strange health issues.
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