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What Causes Poor Concentration?

Hello, I also am experiencing these symptoms and have been for 8 years now. I don t have any answers for anyone and I wish I could say it gets easier but it hasn t for me. Up until a year and a half ago the spaced out / always drunk feeling was really my only symptom. I was then hit with several other equally and more disturbing symptoms. Here’s the symptoms I’ve been experiencing over the last several years: • Feeling spaced out all the time, brain fog, mental clarity off, eyes feel unfocused/dazed This has been the worst of my symptoms over the years and it’s there 24/7… some days are better than others, but it’s always noticeable. This is especially worse when in busy visual environments, and under fluorescent lighting. • Unable to Concentrate I have a hard time concentrating or focusing on things. This is especially troublesome when talking to people, I often hear what they are saying but my concentration isn’t there so I don’t comprehend or remember most of the conversation. • Fatigue / Always yawning • Chronic Sinus/Nasal Stuffiness/Ear Fullness • Dizzy, wooziness, off balance feeling • Severe Eye Floaters • Tinnitus • After Images / Images get burned into my eyes • Mild Visual Snow/Static on certain backgrounds • Near constant eye/ear/temple pain • Headaches the start at the base of my skull • Muscle Twitching, Weakness and Aches If anyone has any ideas or shares similar symptoms I would like to hear from you. Please send me a private message so we can discuss.
Tue, 5 Jun 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

The symptoms you mentioned should be evaluated properly. The feelings like brain fog, poor focus or concentration, difficulty to follow conversations, dizziness, fatigue, yawning, chronic headache, muscle twitching etc can occur in anxiety or due to some mood disturbance. This might occur in some neurological causes like neuropathy. Vitamin B12 deficiency sometimes cause similar symptoms. I'd advise you to get serum Vitamin B12 levels done in order to rule out this.

Anxiety can cause similar symptoms too. Drugs like low dose Escitalopram or Sertraline can be used to reduce the symptoms. You can talk with a psychiatrist for prescription of these drugs.

Thanks and Take care

Dr. Seikhoo Bishnoi.
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What Causes Poor Concentration?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. The symptoms you mentioned should be evaluated properly. The feelings like brain fog, poor focus or concentration, difficulty to follow conversations, dizziness, fatigue, yawning, chronic headache, muscle twitching etc can occur in anxiety or due to some mood disturbance. This might occur in some neurological causes like neuropathy. Vitamin B12 deficiency sometimes cause similar symptoms. I d advise you to get serum Vitamin B12 levels done in order to rule out this. Anxiety can cause similar symptoms too. Drugs like low dose Escitalopram or Sertraline can be used to reduce the symptoms. You can talk with a psychiatrist for prescription of these drugs. Thanks and Take care Dr. Seikhoo Bishnoi.