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Need advice

Mon, 10/24/2016 - 17:41
Hello, im a 16 year old girl who has been having really strange symptoms. 5 or 6 months ago, I started to feel light headed and striated to develop memory problems. I went to my doctor, and they said that it was because of me not drinking enough water. But during the summer, my behaviors changed. I used to love going to party's , but now I hate them because they make my head hurt. Over the past couple of weeks, my head pains became much stronger. I started to get numbness on one side of my body(but i also have anima).Then a couple of days later new symptoms developed like confusion, short term memory loss,and fatigue. My mom took me to the doctor, and my doctor ordered an EEG. The results came back normal. But over the past 3 days, my memory loss has become worse. I often find myself talking to people and not knowing it. I even noticed a problem in my speech. I was talking to someone, and then out of no where, i could not talk. I could not even finish the word I was saying. The only reason I know that this happened, was because people has asked me about it. Then today, I started to have severe pain in my head. My head right now, feels like its gonna explode. My memory has been really off, to the point that I forgot what I did for the past couple of weeks until I looked at social media and asked people. I feel very off, almost like Im going insane. I can't pronounce words right, or write some words right. My sight is even being effected. At one point today, I thought that I was in a cartoon. I have no idea whats wrong with mer, and im very scared. My symptoms seem to be getting worse by the day. My doctor is support to call me, to order new tests to figure out whats going on in my brain. But she is not a neuro doctor. And the earliest I can take another test, is next week. I have no idea what I should do. Is this something to worry about right now vs in a week?

Comments

relax some.. If they are

Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2016-10-24 - 18:47
relax some.. If they are seizures then your stress can trigger seizures. depending on the tests and which doctor your doctor was talking to a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy

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