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hi everyone. i am a 19 year old male in good physical condition. i run competitively (half marathons), bodybuild, and eat very well. Approx. 27 days ago i went to the doctor with a bad sinus infection and "pockets" in my throat. i was given a kenalog shot for the allergies (i live in west texas, the gin dust can sometimes get bad) and amoxocillan for the infection. i took this for 10 days and everything cleared up. christmas eve (i had already been off my antibiotics a few days) that night i felt very dizzy and felt as though i was going to pass out…we thought it was blood sugar so i ate something (although i had been eating all day!) and it seemed to help. next day (christmas) same thing happened, however i felt dizzy all day. the next and third day i had these symptoms, i was eating at a mexican restaurant and got very dizzy and felt as though i was going to pass out (bp dropped, lips got purple , i got weak and could not sit up straight). i went home and it never went away…that night i started twitching muscularly. i stayed up all night and would jerk when i was about to fall asleep…all signs of anxiety.

well, here is my question. it has been 17 days ive had muscle twitching. i feel very week in my hands, i get numbness on the outside on my hands (the sides adjacent to your pinky fingers) that run up my wrists and disappear somewhere in my arm. if i squeeze something lightly, my hand(s) will begin to shake. i have tremors anytime i wake up that go away. i also have been experiencing "light spots" in my vision. they are small but make me scared because i havent found too much evidence that anxiety can cause that.

to summarize my symptoms:

dizziness

tingling in hands and random spots on my body.

blurred vision (not all the time)

tingling in my face

muscle twitches at random places especially in hands
occasionally a head pain although nothing persistent or bad (i think this might be stress related?)

tremors whenever i wake up (especially if i am about to go to sleep, jerk and am woken up the tremors ALWAYS start)

my right toe next to my "big toe" hurts at the base at random times and sometimes persists for an hour or more. i looked up a diagram and where i "think" it is hurting is the nerve ending to the eustachian tube…im not a doc, only looking at a picture so not sure if thats really what is hurting.

i feel tightness at the very top of my right calf that spans to about halfway up the bend opposite of my knee (back side of leg). this also comes and goes

the doctor said i could have labyrinthitus causing the dizziness and then anxiety about this causing all the other symptoms. or worse case scenerio a brain tumor and therefore they recommend a CT scan. of course everyone will tell me to get that, but what do my symptoms sound like? i am a perfect canidate for anxiety disorder, i have had a very rough year and been under extreme depression. the thing that scares me is, if these symptoms are from anxiety, it seems like when i would relax (ive had a great weekend and taken my mind off it), it would subside? i tried working out yesterday and it made everything much worse…i stayed up until 5 am twitching, i took ativan but im very sparring as i do not want to get addicted! help please?

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