Hi im new to the board, basically this is my story, i am a third year mental health student nurse taking year out due to labyrinthitis and post trumatic stress.last september i finished a MDT meeting and felt unwell i went to my GP and he said i had a viral infection, my thyroid meds need to be put up and my BP was high.
he gave me Antenol, upd my levothyroxine from 150mcg to 175mcg every day and said i should start to feel fine.
i went to bed and woke the next mroning, got out of bed to go to work and fell stright to the floor, my head spinning and feeling very dizzy and sick.
i got rushed to hospital and got told that i shouldnt evan be on BP meds! sent home and told to go to Drs saw differnt Dr and he diagnosed me with Labyrinthitis, gave me Serc and sent for ENT visit.
ent finally came round 3 weeks later, the ENT so called specilist said it was in my head, ok so why was my GP giving me medication for labyrinitis? proclopromazine, prothiaden, serc, antinausic medication and diazapam?
Labyrinthits is not nice its very frightning, as you feel like your stood on the hightest building spinning round and round vomiting with no ground underneth you.
finally got to see a private ent who said it was definetly labs and to come of all medication.
my gp put me onto fluoxatine as i went into his office crying about labs. within 48hrs i was having nightmare about stabing people which felt real when i woke up,went back to GP changed to sertraline took that for 6 months and still felt no difference apart from getting more and more negative thoughts.
i told my gp i thought it was due to no withdrawel programme from all the meds id been on but she wasnt sure and said the only way to find out was to come off.
so im three weeks in to no medication at all my mind feel clear, but i am still gettin autonomic negative thoughts, ive done the counciling under gp ect and dug up all my past till there is no more to be dug up i want to move forward but these thoughts keep poping in then i get the fear factor going, like tingling arm then i think im going to punch someone or hurt some one. i know its just my anxiety and i am trying the no medication route after such bad experiance with meds.
im finally getting to see my nurotologist about labs/bppv but just wish these thoug