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Neurologist that tells me to see psych and an ENT.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 09:10

 

 

Ok, my neurologist tells me my hallucinations are a mental issue.  Periodically, I hear things and wake up out of a dead sleep to go check on a kid because I swear I heard them scream.  The 11yr old jumps when I ask her if she's ok, because I'm waking her, and she sleeps like the dead.  Also, when I tell him his seizure medicine is making me mean, and that I can't sleep, making the seizures worse.  He tells me to go to psych, I must have issues keeping me awake.

I then explain, I'm seeing things, and smelling things that aren't there.  He tells me to go see an ENT, because there has to be something wrong with my olfactory senses.  Yes, when I smell the odd smells I'm so nauseous, I can't eat.  The days I smell bacon are great, the days I smell mom's perfume at 10 times the normal amount, or poo, vomit, etc...not so good.  Yes, I always ask, and no it's never there. The burning electric smell, is awful, cause I go through the whole house looking for it.  The seeing things, back to...go to psych and get medicated for it.

I know I'm not nuts, and the days I have the sights, smells, sounds...I run in to walls, have tremors, and am freezing (the room is 73 and I have two blankets on).  I don't leave the house those days.  Those days, I also have a bloody nose, migraines, and I wake up in the morning with unexplained bruise.  I'm also losing memories after each seizure, long and short term.  I can remember feelings, but not faces, or names.  

Please...someone tell me they have similar things happen to them.  I know I'm not crazy.  Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for any help possible!

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