u/Emotional_Put_3649

Help, any ideas?

I’m a 22M. I have had a rollercoaster of symptoms in the past 8 yrs. Got my first migraine with typical curtain vision and headache in 8th grade. I got them every 3 months for like 1yr. I then got strange dizziness vertigo and headaches jr year when covid hit. I saw a neurologist and she said I had migraines or vestibular migraines. I got my first brain MRI in that yr and since then I’ve had 5 brain MRI’s and CT scans so basically a scan each yr. No changes all steady besides a cholesterol granuloma in left apex.

My issue is either my symptoms constantly change or I don’t have migraines? I started with headaches, then got VM symptoms like veritgo, dpdr, confusion, pins and needles visual aura, disorientation or brain fog with almost no headaches through 2019-2025.

Now I get no headaches, no pins and needles, very rare visual aura, no vertigo nothing besides legit a lot of stuttering, issues articulating myself, and memory feels super disorientated/distorted. Like today is Tuesday I had forgot wth I did on sun I wouldn’t have known what I had done if it wasn’t for journaling. Which I go back and read and i then can remember what I did. I can remember certain things or events but my memory feels like fragments or like it’s hard to recall or like I don’t code things well. I forget words I’m trying to use. I sometimes say a different word then what I meant same thing when typing. I can’t do two things at once.

I don’t believe I have ADHD, or something like that. I am getting an EEG in a couple of days but neuro doesn’t think it’s that. I also have a neuropsychologist appt but until December sigh. I was in advanced classes throughout HS, I can learn things still but feel as tho I can’t process or retain information well at all anymore. I haven’t never had a TBI, or a concussion. I haven’t gotten hit in the head pretty hard at most twice when I was younger. Once a rock throw at the back of my head by a younger kid didn’t pass out or anything. I did bleed a little from the impacted area. I also got hit with a chain on the back of my head as well when I was younger that one was lighter impact. Niether of these caused me to puke or be confused or exhibit concussion symptoms.

I have been told I have migraines but I just don’t believe it. This memory issue and cognitive barrier have become an issue. My mom did get breast cancer in my jr year. It was tough to go through cried often thinking I’d lose her but went away after I graduated. I cut her hair during chemo etc. Then my brother died of suicide in summer of 2022 when I graduated. I was close to him it hurt for a while and some symptoms did return like the headache etc then after I healed from that my mom’s cancer came back. I wish I kept a journal or tracked the symptoms but I can’t recall exactly which ones came back I just remember memory seems to be a somewhat constant issue. Anyways her cancer came back this time it was stage 4 my fear was here. I lost her to breast cancer and watched her suffer as she left. I struggled with memory hard now like it’s been my biggest fucken issue. I then developed a massive VM and dpdr after I got a spider in my ear and got an ear flush at the ER. That has since resolved. I began journaling and trying to recall what I did the day prior more often and noticed improvement in memory recalling but if I don’t do that I can’t recall shit.

Then my hs relationship ended tho we’d be off and on it was sad but this and my brothers loss did not affect me as hard as my moms.

Anyways I’ve only mentioned all this bc I need and want to know if I’m struggling with a neurodegenerative disease or an emotional/mental issue here. Yes I’ve sought a therapist but they are springy harder to find then you’d fucken imagine. Wtv I truly am fine but like my symptoms keep changing like the headaches have been there before now they aren’t I got told by my neuro it’s vm but now that’s gone and all I deal with is memory issue brain fog, articulating myself and just being able to process info like learning and what not seriously I feel stupid man I genuinely feel like a potato.

YES I HAVE TRIED MIGRAINE MEDS. My
Body sucks in so damn prone to side effects. Anything will give me side effects at the smallest doses. I’ve always felt like my body is easier to become overstimulated or feel like any small stress man the slightest bit like 2 ppl talking to me will put my nervous system in overdrive. Yes exactly how it sounds like I’ll be jittery and overwhelmed like on high alert after that man.

Help, any ideas?

I’m a 22M. I have had a rollercoaster of symptoms in the past 8 yrs. Got my first migraine with typical curtain vision and headache in 8th grade. I got them every 3 months for like 1yr. I then got strange dizziness vertigo and headaches jr year when covid hit. I saw a neurologist and she said I had migraines or vestibular migraines. I got my first brain MRI in that yr and since then I’ve had 5 brain MRI’s and CT scans so basically a scan each yr. No changes all steady besides a cholesterol granuloma in left apex.

My issue is either my symptoms constantly change or I don’t have migraines? I started with headaches, then got VM symptoms like veritgo, dpdr, confusion, pins and needles visual aura, disorientation or brain fog with almost no headaches through 2019-2025.

Now I get no headaches, no pins and needles, very rare visual aura, no vertigo nothing besides legit a lot of stuttering, issues articulating myself, and memory feels super disorientated/distorted. Like today is Tuesday I had forgot wth I did on sun I wouldn’t have known what I had done if it wasn’t for journaling. Which I go back and read and i then can remember what I did. I can remember certain things or events but my memory feels like fragments or like it’s hard to recall or like I don’t code things well. I forget words I’m trying to use. I sometimes say a different word then what I meant same thing when typing. I can’t do two things at once.

I don’t believe I have ADHD, or something like that. I am getting an EEG in a couple of days but neuro doesn’t think it’s that. I also have a neuropsychologist appt but until December sigh. I was in advanced classes throughout HS, I can learn things still but feel as tho I can’t process or retain information well at all anymore. I haven’t never had a TBI, or a concussion. I haven’t gotten hit in the head pretty hard at most twice when I was younger. Once a rock throw at the back of my head by a younger kid didn’t pass out or anything. I did bleed a little from the impacted area. I also got hit with a chain on the back of my head as well when I was younger that one was lighter impact. Niether of these caused me to puke or be confused or exhibit concussion symptoms.

I have been told I have migraines but I just don’t believe it. This memory issue and cognitive barrier have become an issue. My mom did get breast cancer in my jr year. It was tough to go through cried often thinking I’d lose her but went away after I graduated. I cut her hair during chemo etc. Then my brother died of suicide in summer of 2022 when I graduated. I was close to him it hurt for a while and some symptoms did return like the headache etc then after I healed from that my mom’s cancer came back. I wish I kept a journal or tracked the symptoms but I can’t recall exactly which ones came back I just remember memory seems to be a somewhat constant issue. Anyways her cancer came back this time it was stage 4 my fear was here. I lost her to breast cancer and watched her suffer as she left. I struggled with memory hard now like it’s been my biggest fucken issue. I then developed a massive VM and dpdr after I got a spider in my ear and got an ear flush at the ER. That has since resolved. I began journaling and trying to recall what I did the day prior more often and noticed improvement in memory recalling but if I don’t do that I can’t recall shit.

Then my hs relationship ended tho we’d be off and on it was sad but this and my brothers loss did not affect me as hard as my moms.

Anyways I’ve only mentioned all this bc I need and want to know if I’m struggling with a neurodegenerative disease or an emotional/mental issue here. Yes I’ve sought a therapist but they are springy harder to find then you’d fucken imagine. Wtv I truly am fine but like my symptoms keep changing like the headaches have been there before now they aren’t I got told by my neuro it’s vm but now that’s gone and all I deal with is memory issue brain fog, articulating myself and just being able to process info like learning and what not seriously I feel stupid man I genuinely feel like a potato.

YES I HAVE TRIED MIGRAINE MEDS. My
Body sucks in so damn prone to side effects. Anything will give me side effects at the smallest doses. I’ve always felt like my body is easier to become overstimulated or feel like any small stress man the slightest bit like 2 ppl talking to me will put my nervous system in overdrive. Yes exactly how it sounds like I’ll be jittery and overwhelmed like on high alert after that man.