Hi folks,
I am worried about symptoms which I have been getting for almost a year now on an on and off basis. I simply don't know what that is and what to do against it.
Basically whenever I am under stress, this could simply be a stressful situation where I try to read a manual or where I have to read a contract or instructions to something, I notice that I almost instantly get this really weird feeling in the head. I feel almost as if I'm on something. It's really hard to describe. It feels like a dullness or heaviness, almost like a pressure in or against my head!
I have no clue what that is. But it's really worrying me. In such stressful situations I almost feel as if I can't think straight anymore. But it's also definitely a physical feeling. Actually as I type this right now I have this feeling again. It's not simply "psychosomatic" but it's like something physical. Yesterday I had it to. I was feeling stressed and then I got upset over something and immediately this feeling kicked in and I felt like I couldn't even think straight anymore and then after a while it goes away again. I first noticed this almost 1 year ago. Maybe one could call it brain fog but I'm not sure what brain fog really is and how others define it.
What could this be?
I had a brain MRI 1,5 years ago due to something else and it was normal.
I also suffer from anxiety and depression and possibly adhd. I have been tested for adhd and did concentration tests and the results were poor concentration.
I tried time-released ritalin but it didn't really seem to make a difference and then my doc wasn't sure wether I should continue with it.
Against the depression I have been on a few meds which didn't work (Citalopram,Mirtazapin,Bupropion).
The depression and the anxiety are already bad enough but these new symptoms concern me even more. I'm in my final year and next year I have final exams coming up which I'm totally afraid of. And now when I feel like under stress I get this dull feeling and feel like I can't think straight anymore I'm worried even more.
I also had it happen to me that under stress I suddenly felt so jittery and physically weak that I couldn't even write anymore cause my arms were so weak!
I have a very bad stress resistance. Even small things can totally unsettle me and make my head spin. For example when I'm just doing something and then another person approaches me with a request then this already stresses me out and I start to feel restless and begin to talk really fast and so on.
Or when I'm in a mall just looking for stuff which interests me and I see a lot of things which are interesting then I also get this same restless feeling it's almost as if I'm intoxicated. I have been having this since childhood but back then it wasn't so disabling. I just thought that it's normal.
It sucks cause none of the medications I tried changed anything and I'm running out of ideas.
I don't even know if psychopharmaceuticals are the way to go for me.
I wish doctors would do more testing to find possible causes.
I thought maybe I have an issue with the adrenals and then got an acth stimulation test but the results were normal. I don't have Addison's.
When I describe my symptoms to a doctor then I feel like he can't work with them.