Hi..

I am hoping there might be someone out there who can give me some ideas, feedback etc.

I have had some symptoms that have been affecting me for over the last year. I am not sure when they started per sea but they have all been affecting me on and off for the since Jan of 2005, some before.

Obviously, I am not looking for a diagnosis but some ideas about where I should start looking. I am not good at logging stuff or going to doctors but everytime things start getting worse again, I think again that I have to find

Ok symptoms. Some might be totally unrelated. Some might be just because I am tired. In isolation I can figure out some reason maybe for each but not together. I have no idea anymore:

Vertigo spells, some really intense that I am nauseous after. Many times I am lying down when they happen- though I do get dizzy sometimes when I get up too fast, this is not the same sensation.

Buzzing sensations in groin, feet and fingers

Days where I am extremely tired, feel lethargic and a bit distorted. My tounge sometimes feels swollen and I feel like I am slurring but no one has noticed that it is actually coming out that way.

Some memory loss- having a real hard time with short term stuff. I am going into rooms constantly and forgetting after 5 steps what I went in for. A couple friends who I talk a lot with have commented on my lack of memory so it's a little noticable. I feel constantly frustrated by this one all the time.

This is the weird one. I have spells where I think I am in an earthquake. Everything is shaking around me in my opinion. I have even ran for cover. Not one of them turned out to be real earthquakes. I am totally conscious.

I think there is something wrong with my vision and/or my coordination. I already where corrective glasses and I do think that my eyes have gotten worse again so I need to go get them checked. But I have started to hit things while driving. Not people of course but I drove into the side of my house with the corner of my car as I was pulling into the same parking spot that I had parked in for the past 10 months. Then I continued over the next month hit other pole in the parkade a few times and a couple other things. I might be just a horrible driver but I also drop things a lot. The same book was dropped three times walking down the hallway at work to my office. This all might have just been on days where I am tired. But it seems weird.

I have night sweats sometimes. Last night it happened again, I turned the temperature down in the room in case that was the problem but it wasn't on that high and I took my temperature in case I had a fever (I did not.) But my tshirt was drenched after only sleeping for about a hour. The night sweats have been happening on occassion (not nightly) for the last three years.

Nerve spasms. This might be normal but it's happened a few times in the last six months where my ring finger decided to dance all on it's own. I could stop it if I formed a fist but when I let go of the control, the finger would go back to dancing. One of the times, it was accompained by a pinching pain in my arm err upper tricep I think area?

Finally, an increase in headaches. I am a migraine sufferer but they had started to slow down as I got older (now I am in my early thirties) Now I am getting headaches that aren't migraines.

I think that's the mainly it. I don't know what's going on. It's not that I think I am seriously ill or something but I don't know what is happening? Could this be do to a sleeping disorder? Or maybe all due to stress? I am concerned though if I should be driving if this continues to progress.

Just so you know: I have been seeing my doctor- for most of the time, he has been insisting that its depression. I have never felt that I was depressed but eventually went to see a consellor in case I was just simply in denial. Saw a counsellor and she said no to depression but possible Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at one point but then came up with nothing by the time I stopped our sessions. I finally got through to my Doctor that it wasn't depression and he referred me to a Neurologist. The Neurologist said that she believes everything that I am experiencing is just a manefestation of my migraines and that we may never know why because no one really understands yet about the migraine brain. I have had a CT scan and a EEG to which I think were clean because I never heard back from the Neurologist. I need to fax her with updates though and I haven't been doing that (my bad- I just keep on forgetting!). I am supposed to be keeping a log and I forget to do that too the majority of the time. So most of this is my fault. I just seem to be only able to do one thing at a time right now and thats my career. Everything else seems to fall to the wayside.

Brief history: Had seizures as a kid. Put on phenobarbitrol (sp?). Taken off around age 8. Migraines started. Still have them though not as bad as when I was a kid. Coma when 13 from encephalitus (viral) but fully recovered. Otherwise no other complaints other than some tiredness after age of 25.

So if you have other idea or just think that I am a hypochondriac, please feel free to let me know. thanks