I’ll try to keep this as brief as possible but I just feel miserable and I don’t know how to keep living like this. In June I woke up one day and felt extremely dizzy, tired, and like I had brain fog. I started googling and basically came to the conclusion that I could have a middle ear infection. I went to urgent care and the doctor did say that my ear was inflamed, gave me antibiotics, and said that I should feel better within the next 1-3 days. So I was absolutely obsessing over it and waiting for it to stop only for it to never stop. I went to see the doctor a few days later and he said my ear was better but still inflamed and that I was dehydrated. I still didn’t feel like I was back to normal.

At this point I became obsessed with googling and random reddit posts trying desperately to find a diagnosis. I eventually began to think that it could be my wisdom teeth and after going to a surgeon and a dentist I did determine that I need to get them out, however the surgeon said my dizziness is probably not caused by my teeth. I honestly just started to get super freaked out and I would wake up and instantly check myself to see how I’m feeling, thinking about my dizziness, etc etc.

This past weekend I had a sudden really sharp headache and immediately started freaking out, I was shaking, crying, felt absolutely sick afterwards, etc. It was at 3 am and my mom tried to assure me that it would be okay but I was genuinely terrified that I wouldn’t even wake up the next morning. I did (shockingly) but just felt so dizzy and out of it like usual but more extreme and I was just spiraling, I went back to urgent care (after my parents told me I should just start there and only go to the ER if necessary) and the doctor determined that I’m dehydrated and that I was panicking over something that isn’t very serious.

I just don’t even know what to do and I’ve been wanting an MRI for months now but I’m just scared that it’s really serious and that it’s too late. I feel like I’m going insane with the constant over analyzing. I’ve also convinced myself I was having a heart attack, diabetes, etc in the past few months. And it’s gotten so bad to the point that I don’t even want to exercise because I’m convinced that I’ll have a brain aneurysm if my heart rate goes up.