This is going to be a long one...
About a month and a half ago I started having vertigo. I've had low blood pressure issues in the past, but this felt different. Instead of everything getting brown or fuzzy, everything tilts down and to the left. I don't get any nausea, but I do get a headache right behind by eyes just after an episode.
For about a month my ears have been ringing frequently.
Also for about a month, I've been having problems with numbness. If any of my limbs stay bent for more than a few minutes, they go numb. If I straighten, feeling returns. Sometimes they don't even have to be bent, but in these cases the numbness lasts several hours, up to a day.
I went to the doctor, and she thought it looked like I had a sinus infection, so she put me on a decongestant and a nasal spray. She put me on meclizine for the vertigo, and told me to get a multivitamin and a b-complex vitamin for the numbness.
The vertigo doesn't occur when I'm on the meclizine, but the numbness hasn't improved after 2 weeks and the ringing still happens a lot.
But now new things are cropping up. I get the sensation and visual sign that I'm going to have a migraine, but no pain ever occurs. I haven't been nearly as hungry as I usually am, and a few times a day I have a strange metallic taste in my mouth (which is probably from the vitamins). There are some times when it's like I just "turn off," I get suddenly and overwhelmingly drowsy. I could sleep all day when this happens, and I never feel rested. Waking up can be a struggle, like I'm swimming through a fog, and often I can't become fully awake until the drowsiness totally stops.
But the one that scares me has only happened a few times. I'll have to give an example to explain this:
My boyfriend walked into the bedroom while I was laying down watching tv. I told him that his pj's were in the bathroom, so he would have to go get them. He walked toward me and started to change, and I said, "Wait, remember? Your pj's are in the bathroom." He looked at me strangely, and replied, "I already went and got them," and then he held them up to show me. I was totally baffled. As far as I had seen, he never left the room!
This has happened a few times since. Without realizing it, I lose 15-30 seconds. I'm afraid to go to public places or drive for fear of it happening again. I have a doctor's appointment in a few days, but I'm afraid I'm going to sound like an fool who's trying to fake a disease or something when I talk to the doctor.
I had tuberculosis when I was 3 (and hearing loss from the aminoglycosides), and Bell's palsy when I was 7. Don't know if this adds anything.
Can anyone help? I'm confused and getting worried...