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Losing my mind....

About six years ago, i started getting episodes of wooziness, sounds would echo or seem like they were coming from a different direction, off balance, sometimes it seems like someone shut all the shades and the room would go dark and i would feel like i was drunk. This would happen ever time i got my periods and last for a week or so then just like that it was all gone.. as time went on these episodes lasted long and longer until i had no days without it. I had a biopsy of the uterus and they found placenta.. said i had a miscarriage.I have since been on a birth control to stop my periods, but didnt stop the symptoms. I am like this every day, some days its light and i can function and others are a nightmare. I feel a constant but light forehead pressure every minute of everyday.When its light i am ok as it gets heavier all the symptoms start.I have had migraines since i was 15 or so. When i have an actual migraine i have NO symptoms at all except the pain. I have injured my neck several times but mri is normal. I take tylenol 3 to keep it under control, i used to be able to take 2 for the pain but now soemtimes a half pill works just fine.I have had the whole ent work up and all is normal. i have had hormonal workup and is normal. I have had several brain mri, only result is punctate white matter flair hyperintensities. i have had all normal blood tests. I have seen a couple neuros and migraine specialists and have been given several different migraine pills but most just make things worse or not work at all.Since this started i have trouble with most medicines, they all seem to overreact, even meds that i had taken in the past and had no trouble with. I feel like my brain is always "firing".. I have no symptoms with the rest of my body.I am not an anxious or nervous person at all. This is so overwhelming that it gets to me after a while. When i get a "good day' i am off and running, doing everything i can, shopping, doing things my kids want to do, trying to get it all in before my head starts again.. I would like to get back to all good days... please help..
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875426 tn?1325528416
And to get that iron and ferritin checked- my doctor yesterday said ferritin testing was actually the best of the two!
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875426 tn?1325528416
It might be good to get copies of lab results to see what that "full work up" entailed and what your numbers were.
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Yes, i have had the tilt table done and had therapy for bppv, that didnt help. dont know the exact hormones that they check, they said a full work up... dont think they did iron or ferritin levels though.
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875426 tn?1325528416
Have you ever been to a cardiologist and had a tilt table test ordered?  Have you had your blood iron and ferritin levels checked?  What hormones did you get checked?
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