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I am 23M professional athlete or at least was, cause everything is at hold right now due to my symptoms.

So long story short, my life turned around after some mysterious illness I had in February, I wasn’t tested at the time, because I thought it was the next infection that I would just pass, so I can’t be sure it was COVID or something else, but I need your genuine advice please.

So the illness was bad it wasn’t a normal cold, I had a real bad sore throat, couldn’t even eat at some point, I also had chest x-ray and they told me it didn’t look good.

So as I initially recovered from the acute symptoms, I started training again maybe after 1 weeks, but something didn’t feel right, can’t really explain what, but I wasn’t at 100%.

Then one day maybe after 2 weeks my acute symptoms went away my body started acting really strange and still acts to this day 8 months later.

My symptoms are mostly neurological as I don’t seem to have major fatigue:

-I have this incredibly strange and awful feeling in my head, it resembles dissociation or some debilitating brain fog, but I don’t feel unreal or something, the feeling is mostly physical and I can’t really explain what it is. Fuzzy/spaced out/kinda dizzy. It is the worst when driving or when walking outside.

-Off balance/“gravitational pulls” when closing my eyes or lifting one leg up to put my shoes on.

-Headaches in my temple region, that come and go

-Dry eyes

-Body feeling “weightless” as if walking on clouds or something

Tests:

Normal Brain MRI. There was “high signal changes inflammation/fluid in my left mastoid ear region” and chronic sinusitis found though, ENT suspected some bacteria involved, so that could explain something, but not sure.

-Normal blood-work

-Normal neurological tests/ oto-neurological showed 37% asymmetry in left ear on post-rotatory chair.

-History of IBS-D

-Never had issues like these prior, I was in the best shape I’ve ever been to be honest.

I read a lot about that these things are connected and since I’ve been suffering for about 6-7 months now after vestibular neuritis and deficit in my left inner ear.
I want to see if anyone here has had the same thing or knows more about the topic.

I think I am suffering from some sort of dp since this all started, it’s like my body feels so strange and like I am floating, my vision is also very overstimulated by busy environments and driving.
It’s like this but without the mental side of it, no dream feeling and no detachment from memories etc…

Hey everyone.
I am asking here for your advice for a situation I am in for about 6-7 months now.

So I had a bad virus and I had to take antibiotics for about a week. The virus took 2-3 weeks to clear up fully.

I am a professional athlete and soon after I recovered I returned to train and about 1-2 weeks later I felt so off one training and this literally has never happened to me
before like I know my body so well.
I felt so foggy and strange out of nowhere the lights were super bright and over stimulating and my body felt so light.
So I panicked and suffered a panic attack.

Since then I’ve been dealing with immense brain fog and anxiety.

Especially when I am driving it feels so bad and when I am in bright lid places.

I have headaches/pressure around my temple region and eyes almost daily

I’ve been feeling spacey and strange and I am wondering where all of this came from and I blame it on the virus and antibiotics. Since on top off that I’ve been suffering from IBS for about 3-4 years.

Can all of this be contributed to Candida overgrowth?

Has someone had a similar situation?

Hey everyone.
I am writing here to get some answers and help if possible from someone who has had a similar situation.

Basically I went to all the doctors possible and I am getting an MRI in about 5 days so we will see how it goes but right now everything and everyone of the docs seems clueless in my country..
They watch me like I am some kind of alien and I even struggle to explain what is wrong with me, all I know is after an vestibular event caused by a virus and then one anxiety attack later I am not feeling the same as before and never felt worse in my life.

Symptoms:

I don’t even know if this is dizziness, severe brain fog, lightheadedness or something else but it is absolutely magnified when I am driving or in busy lid places.
It just feels like my brain takes in information differently than before that is making me very anxious.

I also have these headaches around my temple and eye region that come for a day or two then go away and come back.

The only thing that was found was an 37 percent asymmetry in my left inner ear on post-rotatory chair test during VNG.

Does this sound like VM?

Hey everyone.
I am asking here for a clarification because I am new to all of this and I am kinda confused.

I had a virus in February which attacked my vestibular system leaving me with 37% left inner ear damage.

Since they I have been suffering with intense anxiety when being outside in open spaces, driving and lid busy places.

I have this head feeling which I can’t explain no matter how hard I try. It is mainly and very magnified when I drive a car for example which I think is due to the sensory overload.

My question is what brain fog feels like physically if there is such a thing or is it only forgetfulness, memory issues etc.?

Has anyone suffered with something similar and if yes, what helped?

Hey everyone. Wishing the best to everyone here and successful season.

I am 23M Middle who was about to play his first VNL tournament and EuroVolley with his team this summer but had his plans and dreams crushed due to a severe viral infection in March which left my vestibular and nervous system damaged and whacked crazy.

I was able to push through and finish my club season but then came national team camp and I had to cancel my participation due to how off and bad I felt.

It was a really hard decision and now I’m 99% gonna miss next season as well and don’t know if I’m ever gonna get back in the shape I was and continue to play volleyball at all.

I had a 1.03m vertical and was in the best shape of my life prior to this and now I sit mostly at home and doing light training whenever I feel I can train.

I want to ask here about your opinion and if someone has had a similar situation and managed to get well and train again.

Hey everyone. In February I suffered what is supposed to be vestibular neuritis. I didn’t know at the time it seemed like a normal viral/bacterial infection but it kicked off with severe vertigo for 2-3 hours so I decided to check my inner ear health three months ago due to the symptoms and I found out I had 39% asymmetry in my left inner ear.
My questions are:
Has someone dealt with similar symptoms after vestibular neuritis?
How long until you fully or partially returned to baseline, cause right now I am mostly staying in home, I can drive, workout and so on but experience severe discomfort while doing so.
Can all of this symptoms be connected to the neuritis itself?
My symptoms are:
-dpdr like sensations
-light sensitivity and very sharp sensitive vision
-spaced out feelings and lightheadedness/heavyheadedness that is worst when driving
- heightened anxiety
-dizziness occasionally but not room-spinning
-when I close my eyes sometimes I feel this gravity pulling left to right but only when I am upright
- I can play highly demanding video games with no problem which is strange but with most comfort when the room is dark
-in general I feel like my brain processes the world slightly slower than before
-headaches around eyes and temples

Hey everyone. I’m writing here to ask if someone had a similar experience and seek advice.

In February I fell sick with one of the toughest infections that I had in my life(23M pro athlete), I can’t be sure if it was mono/flu or covid but it was bad and treated with antibiotics.
My initial symptoms were:
-Very bad sore throat for around 2-3 weeks.
-The virus kicked off with severe 1-2 hour vertigo leaving me unable to leave bed
-Bad fever for 3 days
-Fatigue
I felt very out of it and anxious like I knew something was bad. But I recovered from the illness and resumed training, however I wasn’t back to 100 percent and still felt a bit off but nothing serious.
Then one training I felt really off, the lights were off, my legs felt stiff and weak and felt very lightheaded. Something that has never happened to me like ever. So I panicked and suffered a panic attack.
After that panic I am dealing with a plethora of symptoms:
- Spacey and really out of it especially when driving and being in a very lid environments.
- everything looks too bright and sharp
-dizziness and lightheadedness sometimes
- dpdr like sensations
- strange touch sensations
- sometimes voices and sounds sound spacey
- open spaces make me anxious and spacey as well
- in the evenings I generally feel better when it’s dark

Has anyone dealt with something similar?
Can this be some vagus nerve/ autonomic nervous system inflammation/irritation?

Hey everyone.
I’m writing here to see if someone experienced something similar and ask for advice.

In February I fell sick with one of the toughest infections of my life(23M pro athlete). I can’t be sure that it was Mono cause at the time I wasn’t tested but my recent bloodwork suggests I had it:
EBV VCA IgM: ⁠0.18 S/CO⁠ (Negative: <0.50)
EBV VCA IgG: ⁠25.54 S/CO⁠ (Positive: >1.00)
EBV EBNA-1 IgG: ⁠466 U/ml⁠ (Positive: >25)
EBV IgG (EUROLINEBlot): ⁠11 signal⁠ (Borderline: 6-10, Positive: 11-25)
EBV IgM (EUROLINEBlot): ⁠13 signal⁠ (Positive: 11-25)

The infection was bad sore throat for 2 weeks, very high fever and fatigue. However the real bad part became after I initially recovered.

While I was training something very weird happened 1-2 weeks after I recovered I felt really strange, the lights in the hall looked off, my legs felt off, something that has never happened to me and I panicked and suffered a panic attack.

Since then I’ve been dealing with a plethora of symptoms that I just can’t explain to myself:

-DPDR like sensations
-“Weightless” body feeling
-Strange touch sensations on my body and hands
-Very sharpened and detailed vision
-Feeling generally “off” and exhausted if I try to push for a day and do normal activity
-Air hunger(constant need to yawn and deep breath), I had this for a long time but forgot about it but after that it came back full force
-Light sensitivity, I prefer dark room and in the evenings I mostly feel better
-Dizziness/lightheadedness

Has anyone had a similar experience?
What was able to help?
I’ve checked so many things and my body looks fine but can’t seem to find what caused this and continues to haunt me.

Hey everyone. I’m writing to ask for better info and ideas about my current situation because i’ve been struggling only for about 6-7 months and don’t know a lot about this topic and haven’t really tried anything significant to be honest.

I am a professional volleyball player and this has been my life for the past 10 years( I am 23M) and since this virus I caught in February have been struggling a lot, had to leave national team camp and currently not training to full extent with my club team because of the condition.
I was in the best shape of my life prior to that and this thing got me down like nothing else before, I’ve been having the strangest sensations I’ve ever felt, don’t really know what is causing this sensations if it’s just the anxiety or something like dysautonomia/POTS/ me/cfs I really don’t know what is causing this, but I have never felt like this before this virus.

How should I approach this situation if someone else was in a similar situation?
Should I just rest for now, cause somedays even going outside is torture?
What can I do to make it better or start recovering at least?

Symptoms are:

Air hunger( constant yawning, searching for deep breaths), “weightless” body feeling don’t know what this really is, dpdr like sensations, vision seems strange like very sharp and overstimulating, dizziness sometimes+lightheadedness, daily head pressure and headaches on the temples and brows

Hey everyone! So long story short in February I caught an virus, maybe covid, maybe mono not sure but it was bad.

Severe vertigo that set everything off,
Severe sore throat for maybe 2 weeks, fever for 3-4 days, fatigue etc.

Two weeks after I recovered from the initial symptoms I was training and something seemed strange I don’t know what but my legs felt very off, the lights in the hall were off and something seemed strange and I suffered a panic attack.

Since that panic attack I have been dealing with plethora of strange symptoms/sensations that are very distressing to me.
The symptoms are:

-DPDR like sensations.
-Spaced out/foggy feeling
-“Weightless body” feeling
-Excessive yawning/ air hunger
-Heightened anxiety
-Strange touch sensations they seem kind of blunted
-Vision seems off/ kinda too detailed, like you are wearing a stronger prescription of glasses than needed
-Dizziness

Could this be vagus nerve related?

Hey everyone. So in February I got sick with something I can’t be sure if it was covid 100% but based on everything that happened following it, looks like it could’ve been.

After my initial symptoms cleared I didn’t fully felt back to normal and out of the blue suffered a panic attack.

Since then my anxiety has been through the roof and I have been feeling the weirdest sensations I have ever felt and after googling they are best described as DPDR.

It feels like my body is producing it and can’t really control it.

Symptoms are:
Vision seems extremely clear and detailed.
Weightless body sensations.
Spaced out/foggy feeling which is worst when driving.
Voices and sounds sound strange sometimes as if they are background noise or im in a bubble.

If anyone has dealt with this, what was able to help?

Hey everyone, just wanted to ask if anyone else is dealing with visual symptoms apart from the dizziness,
I have this weird 4K, sharp vision and visual lag mainly when I am outside and looking and things up close, very frustrating.

Hey everyone! I’m an 23 year old male, professional athlete.
I’m posting here for your opinion about these lab results:
Iron (Fe): 13 umol/l (Reference range: 11.6 - 31.3)
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin):625 pg/ml (Reference range: 187 - 883)
Total folate (serum): 3.9 ng/ml (Reference range: 3.1 - 20.5)
25(OH)-Vitamin D: 35.5 ng/ml (Reference range: >30; >40 recommended for adults; >150 toxic)
Ferritin: 78.24 ng/ml (Reference range: 21.81 - 274.66)

Although folate is in the reference range it doesn’t seem optimal to me as I’m dealing with strange symptoms, heightened anxiety.

What’s your opinion?

I had a panic attack six months ago, first major one, since then i’m having weird bodily sensations, that I can’t really explain.

Vision seems like I am looking through a much stronger prescription glasses than I need to be.

Sounds and voices sometimes sound like a background noise.

Weird touch sensations in hands sometimes.

Hello! I have been feeling weird sensations and symptoms since my first major panic attack.

Strange visual sharpness, voices and sound sometimes sounds like background noise, strange touch sensations on hands.

It caused massive health anxiety spike.
Someone with similar experience?

Hello! I just want to share my experience and ask if anyone had a similar one and get some advice.

So I had a panic attack in March during training, the typical stuff something felt wrong my legs felt weak and boom, palpitations, feeling like I am dying, crazy stuff.
Next day I return to training and again this sense of impending doom and heart pounding. I continued to play and didn’t have dramatic shift in performance, but just something felt off.
The more I continued to research what is wrong with me the more symptoms came, right now the symptoms are:

\-Vision feels as if i’m wearing stronger prescription glasses than needed

\-Sound sometimes sounds as if it’s kind of background noise, the noise you hear when you are about to fall asleep but still not fully asleep

\- strange touch sensations on hands

Has anyone experienced something similar?

What might be the cause?

What helped you?

Hello! I just want to share my experience and ask if anyone had a similar one and get some advice.

So I had a panic attack in March during training, the typical stuff something felt wrong my legs felt weak and boom, palpitations, feeling like I am dying, crazy stuff.
Next day I return to training and again this sense of impending doom and heart pounding. I continued to play and didn’t have dramatic shift in performance, but just something felt off.
The more I continued to research what is wrong with me the more symptoms came, right now the symptoms are:

-Vision feels as if i’m wearing stronger prescription glasses than needed

-Sound sometimes sounds as if it’s kind of background noise, the noise you hear when you are about to fall asleep but still not fully asleep

- strange touch sensations on hands

Has anyone experienced something similar?

What might be the cause?

What helped you?

I’m posting here because I’m trying to find people who have experienced a similar **post-viral neurological/vestibular syndrome**. I’m not certain that my original infection was COVID.

I was previously very active and athletic. Around the beginning of February, I started feeling unusually sick and “out of it.” I initially thought I was simply coming down with an infection.
After initially improving, I suddenly developed an episode of **extremely severe spinning vertigo**. I could barely stand or walk because everything was spinning violently, and I had to lie down. The following morning I developed a fever for around 3–4 days, followed by a very severe sore throat that took approximately 2–3 weeks to fully resolve.

Later, during training, I suddenly developed strange visual sensations and sensitivity to bright lights. I had one panic attack during that episode, but I have not continued having panic attacks. The persistent problem since then has been physical/neurological/sensory symptoms, not recurrent panic.
My symptoms now include:
\-feeling generally “off” or neurologically strange
\-intermittent visual/spatial disturbances, particularly when looking at things close up
\-dizziness/head pressure during certain visual or movement situations, including driving
\-unusual touch sensations, mainly in my hands — sometimes touch feels slightly muted or doesn’t seem perfectly localized to where I’m touching
\-very brief episodes while walking where my body/legs feel “jelly-like” or strangely absent for 1–2 seconds
\-sensory overload, where sounds can sometimes seem unusually background-like
\-symptoms are generally much better after waking and become more noticeable throughout the day
\-cold hands at times
recently making more accidental typing mistakes on my phone

Can a viral illness trigger Vestibular Migraines?
Can it coexist with objective 37% hypofunction of one inner ear?
What was able to help?