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@gracebalch

What a nightmare you are going through. I'm glad you are getting lots of guidance. I've had 4 joint replacement surgeries, and I agree that it could be meds related, at least in part. I had psychedelic and mood-changing reactions to Tramadol. I don't know if you are taking it, but it's often prescribed for pain after surgery. Also, I get dizzy, faintness, and queasy feelings when I am deficient in vitamin D3, which I am chronically, even though I live in sunny Southern California. Wishing you well.

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Thank you for the kind wishes. I am soon undergoing a battery of tests to try to get to the bottom of this. Some symptoms have stabilized, some have improved but others have gotten worse. I’ve now got a pretty bad (sometimes very bad) headache for much of the day and I wake with a buzzing in my head, left ear pounding and roaring along with my head pulsing, and a terrible jittery and shaky feeling. This gets worse as the morning goes on until I am physically ill and vomiting. The suddenly it will get better or move into my chest (I know this sounds weird) where the symptoms feel more heart/gastro related. I think this is what is frustrating my doctor- the symptoms are just all over the place but at the same time mostly pretty severe. Sometimes it seems neurological, sometimes cardiovascular, sometimes hormonal…. I’ve been given a huge battery of tests for autoimmune markers which didn’t show much. The only blood work I have had that came back high was something called a complement total. Between that and my extreme weight loss over the past 7 weeks (despite eating a high calorie diet the past 3 weeks) has the doc sufficiently alarmed. I wasn’t able to get into Mayo but I do have an appointment next month at Iowa City hospitals so hopefully they can figure this out so I can get back to work and on with my life!