Hello Angie
I just wanted to add another voice to the throng advising you to go to the doctor re. your new symptoms. I have no idea what it might be, but it should be checked out because it is not normal for you and your low mood may be associated.
It could be relatively straight forward too and that would really help put your mind at rest.
I wondered if you ever experienced migraines in the past?
I ask because I had them as a teenagaer, but they later reduced in frequency only to return very differently years down the line.
I was sent to a neurologist to check out frequent headaches (I did not call them migraines because they did not resemble my migraines from the past), pins and needles in my fingers, 'fuddled' thinking and a range of other bits and bobs before being diagnosed with a couple of autoimmune disorders including Antiphospholipid Syndrome and SLE.
Now the neurologist found nothing wrong (physically!) with my brain (he was trying to rule out MS, and did so) but put the headaches and pins and needles down to migraine.
I did have a few visual disturbances too - but before, rather than during headaches, so I did not think they were related. I did sometimes feel dizzy and wobbly too.
I was put on some very mild medication which give me no side-effects, and sure enough, the symptoms more or less disappeared. Instead of headaches several times a week I now get them once in a blue moon.
It turned out the pins and needles and any visual ditrubances I had preceded the actual migraine. In my case it was an 'aura' - like a warning you're about to get a migraine. Some people even experience odd smells before a migraine.
On some ocassions I did not even get a headache, just pins and needles and 'shimmering vision' ( like when the air shimmers when heat rises off a red hot road - most noticable when i was looking at a plain background like a pale painted wall) but these sympotms still cleared after migraine treatment.
I secretly though he was a bit nuts when he said my pins and needles were linked to migraine - especailly since i did not always get a headache at the same time, so I did a bit of reading up and it all fell into place.
Probably completely irrelevant, but sometimes it can be reassuring to know there are some pretty straight-forward and easy to address answers that have not occured to us.
Anyway, you really should get yourself checked out because it sounds like it is making you very miserable.
I hope you get some good answers soon.
PS I also have Hughes / Antiphospholipid syndrome on which I blame my migraines, fuzziness / dizziness. Have you been screened for this?
Take care.
Hoping you get some respite soon.
