Feeling Drunk all the time

[Jacobdv]

Hi,
For the past many years I've had this feeling of being drunk all the time.
It started when I was13. After a session of playing at school, I started to feel dazed and drunk, like I was in a dream. Very soon I started to have this felling ALL the time. Every single moment of every day for the last eight years. Initially I was very worried and complained to my parents and family doctor but to no avail. I learnt to ignore this feeling.But not any more. This condition has adversely affected my studies. I have become physically and mentally inactive. A simple task of reading is a challenge.
Things around me don't fell real...like in a dream. I've visited a neurologist several time and even had an MRI scan and various blood tests. All were normal.I'm really frustrated and confused. I'll be very grateful if someone could at least diagnose this condition.

[andreana1]

( For those who found no relation of their symptoms to an illness)

I have come to realise that the problem is mental not physical, which is why tests don't show up anything serious or an illness that can be directly related to these symptoms. The symptoms however can be directly related to depersonalisation and derealisation, which more and more people nowadays describe going through without knowing about it. I have gone through this myself luckily for a few months only and did tests and looked for the reason this could be happening with no luck at first. Other people I know who have been going through this say they can pinpoint exactly the day it started and that they have never been the same since then. It trully is like this because you enter another state of mind.

Feeling like being in a dream- like state, dazed, confusion are all symptoms of dp/dr and are not linked to a physical illness. Basically depersonalisation is a state of mind that for some reason people enter and with it there's confusion that brings frustration and exhaustion so much that you just want to lay down and feel intoxicated or have visual disturbances like snow or floaters that are not a problem of the eyes its like mild hallucinations. Some get really anxious because everything around them feels so weird its nauseous. I know this sounds crazy and most likely I'm not good at explaining it, but these symptoms especially when they have to do with feelings of unreality or being in a dream have to do with depersonalisation.  I am not claiming to have diagnosed every person here but for those who have taken all sorts of tests and found nothing perhaps they should read more about this.

[Mandymops]

I too have been feeling horribly drunk for 10 months. Have gone through MRIs, blood tests, neuro tests, vestibular test etc, etc. I've been on amitryptiline, topiramate and beta blockers, all were no help but had awful side effects. My life is in free fall. My diagnosis is vestibular migraine and my treatment has just been changed by a new doctor. I am now going to be taking 400mg vitamin B2 daily and having vestibular physiotherapy, whatever that may involve. This new doctor explained that the reason I feel so easily confused and forgetful is this. The brain receives three sets of messages to give us our spatial awareness:- what we can see, our balance from our ears and the effect of gravity on our joints and ligaments. With this kind of migraine none of these are matching up. Our logical brain is constantly have to kind of sort it out and this is why we are feeling drunk. The brain is so taken up with the business of just functioning competently in space that anything else is quite a struggle. It made sense to me and I did feel better after talking to her. I shall let you all know how the new treatment regime goes. Apparently it can take a while to show results and there is a bit of a waiting list for the physio. Watch this space. Feeling hopeful....

[Dizzyworld]

Any luck? Did you recover from these symptoms did they go away ? I've been feeling drunk for 11 months and also have a diagnosis of vestibular migraine.

[alaa_afaneh]

it could be that you injured yourself while playing

[alaa_afaneh]

check your spinal cord disc herniations in the neck can cause that

[Robbie0113]

Hi, I have had many or all of the same symptoms and has had the same problem Mr. Jacobdv had/has with my family and doctors not believing me. Last week my dizziness got so bad I couldn't walk without help, so I was rushed to the hospital. The doctors at the hospital finally saw lesions in my brain and spine many scans and years later. The brain and spine leisons turned out to be inflation. The doctors diagnosed it as Multiple Sclorosis or (MS). As of today there is no cure but there is a treatment that can help control the MS. For those wondering what MS is, it's a disease that attacks the nervous system and blocks/damages certain signals to the parts of the body that aren't fully functional. The blocked signals also might lead to numbness or tingling to parts of body making it feel like you're being picked with pins and needles. I was told that a person could have this disease for many years without knowing until it hits you all at one time. Well I hope this was helpful! Ask your doctors about MS if you any questions

[ViolaVersace]

whats that 's??

[dkm202]

I had same issues.  The MRI, bloodwork, neurology, and all other tests came out just fine.   I went to a psychiatrist.  She specialized in derealization/depersonalization.  She prescribed clomipramine.  I felt better in a few weeks.  It was completely gone in few months.  I ended up taking the medication for a little bit more than a year and then weaned off it.