My husband & I recently got married, a
few months ago my husband complained about
strange migraines & that he saw things
bigger or sometimes smaller than what they
really were, now it's gotten worse, he
complains that patterns around him is
constantly changing, objects wobbling.
One day I walked into the room to see him
strap himself to a chair, when I asked
what he was up to he told me to do the
same because the room was going to rotate
again. He doesn't seem to understand
things like he use to, sometimes he acts
in an innocent childish type fashion, he
hates doctors.
I finally got him to see our family doctor
after he screamed for his mother & I
to get the shotgun because he saw a
bumblebee 8 feet tall outside our bedroom
window.
I'm really worried I feel like i've lost
the man I married just 6 months ago. Our
doctor said that he as a rare disease
called the alice-in-wonderland type b
syndrome which makes him have extremely
intense parallel alternative reality
hallucinations to his surroundings because
the brain is producing tryptamine &
too much dimethyltryptamine.
His mother said he had an attack similar
to this once when he was 5 but nothing
this extreme. The doctor sent me to a
specialist we are to see him in a few
days. I want to know more about this
disease but can't find anything on it in
my medical book at home. :cry:
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Benjamin12
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 5
Posted: 12-21-07 00:07am
I had Alice in Wonderland Syndrome as a
child. It wasn't that severe, though. I
might not have had type B - I don't know.
I had the sense of things getting larger
and smaller, but not visual hallucinations
to that degree. I also felt at times like
things would speed up around me and that
everything was going way too fast (speech,
movement, sounds). What your husband has
sounds terrible, but I know from my lesser
hallucinations how terrifying those were,
so I can relate.
For me, the hallucinations stopped on
their own, but I still at times see things
as smaller than they are. It usually
happens after I've looked at something up
close for a while, like typing or reading.
I really wish I had more to tell you, but
if you have more questions I'll do my best
to answer. I'll keep you in my prayers!
