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My Brain Feels Swollen, Is This Anxiety? I Feel Like
My brain feels swollen, is this anxiety?
I feel like this most of the day,everyday. Very rarely it will go away and if it does it will go away for about an hour and than come back full force. It is very hard to explain, it almost feels like my brain is swollen or drowning and it causes SEVERE pressure in my forehead area and at the base of my skull by my upper neck area and also causes very bad stiff neck. My eye ridges will feel pressurized too causing me to have difficulty focusing on things. Sometimes I will get very violent thoughts / urges during these "episodes" and will experiance to cold sweat. I have also noticed my cognition has declined tremendously, so has my memory. When I was young, I was recognized for my incredible memory, now I have difficulty remembering what I ate for breakfast not to mention my constant "brain farts" due to the unbearable brain fog. I can hardely hold a decent conversation with someone while feeling like this because I can't think of what to say and I space out so much to the point that I don't remember what the other person has said to me during the conversation.I have gotten an MRI, several blood tests, been to an ENT Specialist, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and am giving up hope pretty rapidly. My depression kicks in full force when I start to experiance these symptoms and its hard to go outside feeling like this. Please does anybody have any idea what is wrong with me? Can anyone relate? Who and What can help? Thank you in advance!
P.S During these episodes I rarely get any REAL anxiety symptoms like racing heart, shakiness, tingling and panic. These feeling increase in intensity and decrease in intensity as the day goes on... the worst being a 10 and the best being a 3 or a 4 from a scale of 1 - 10 in discomfort.
I feel like this most of the day,everyday. Very rarely it will go away and if it does it will go away for about an hour and than come back full force. It is very hard to explain, it almost feels like my brain is swollen or drowning and it causes SEVERE pressure in my forehead area and at the base of my skull by my upper neck area and also causes very bad stiff neck. My eye ridges will feel pressurized too causing me to have difficulty focusing on things. Sometimes I will get very violent thoughts / urges during these "episodes" and will experiance to cold sweat. I have also noticed my cognition has declined tremendously, so has my memory. When I was young, I was recognized for my incredible memory, now I have difficulty remembering what I ate for breakfast not to mention my constant "brain farts" due to the unbearable brain fog. I can hardely hold a decent conversation with someone while feeling like this because I can't think of what to say and I space out so much to the point that I don't remember what the other person has said to me during the conversation.I have gotten an MRI, several blood tests, been to an ENT Specialist, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and am giving up hope pretty rapidly. My depression kicks in full force when I start to experiance these symptoms and its hard to go outside feeling like this. Please does anybody have any idea what is wrong with me? Can anyone relate? Who and What can help? Thank you in advance!
P.S During these episodes I rarely get any REAL anxiety symptoms like racing heart, shakiness, tingling and panic. These feeling increase in intensity and decrease in intensity as the day goes on... the worst being a 10 and the best being a 3 or a 4 from a scale of 1 - 10 in discomfort.
