Thanks for the reply Mark You give a lot of great advice.

I actually just recently began keeping a journal, writing down how I generally feel throughout the day.

My plan was to track my progress so that next time I went to the Neurologist I could be more specific when describing my symptoms and when I experience them, but you make a good point that it will make it easier to identify triggers.

I, too, find reading much more strenuous now, so sadly I do much less of it than I used to.

I think the thing you said that hit me hardest was about having delayed fatigue. When I start feeling the fatigue I have been trying to figure out what I've been doing that day that would cause it, but I never put the pieces together that it was things from the prevoius day that were causing my fatigue, and that actually makes a lot of sense.

"There are also sound and visual triggers. Being in an environment where there is visual or auditory stimuli beyond the level that your brain can handle can also cause the fatigue."

Boy do I know what you mean. Some days it's so bad that when my girlfriend and I go grocery shopping I have to go back out and wait in the car because I get so overwhelmed.

I also cannot handle anybody talking to me while I'm driving, although driving has become a challenge by itself. The car sickness mixed with the sensory overload make it a pretty miserable activity.

My symptoms are:

Physical: fatigue, weakness, occasional headaches, just a general "sick" feeling in my head a lot of the time, car sickness, dizziness and nausea.

Mental: slower processing, slightly worse memory, trouble staying focused, trouble thinking/making sense of my thoughts, trouble figuring out how to say what I'm trying to say (which is why my posts may seem poorly written at times), feeling half asleep or just sort of fuzzy most of the time, mood swings/being over-emotional, increased stress and anxiety, trouble handling stress and anxiety.

I will probably think of a few more later but that's all I got for now, it's been a long day and my brain is exhausted.

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Thanks again for all your advice Mark. You're a very wise man