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ssgi4in1:
Good evening good people. I am hoping I will get some help here.
Pls this will be a bit a long. I beg you to read. So you can understand better.


My problem started last year April (2018). I was diagnosed with typhoid and malaria. I was started on a course of treatment that involves anti malaria and an antibiotics (azithromycin). I noticed the quality of my sleep was dropping after taking the antibiotic for 2 days. My instincts was that it was the medicine. I eventually stopped taking it but by then my sleep have become badly affected. I woke up a Sunday morning after taking some drinks the previous night at a wedding with one severe type of headache ( I started the antibiotics on Thursday, took on Friday and missed it that Saturday) I continued that Sunday morning. So I eventually stopped all medicine and consulted a doctor friend. By then I had gone two nights with little or no sleep. He prescribed some drugs that was meant to induce sleep and even increased the dosage yet I still couldn't sleep.

Meanwhile before then, I am someone who could be called a sleeper. I can sleep at anytime without stress. I even take naps here and there in my office. So it was strange.

I eventually went to some hospitals and their treatment involved giving me sleep medicines and sometimes it could help me get very little amount of sleep and then it will make me feel very groggy and heavily fatigued. By this time a weird sensation have developed in the left side of my back head (this pain doesn't come and go... It is permanent). After spending some huge amounts I wasn't getting relief until I went to a neurologist. He first suspended all the sleep medications and started giving me amitriptyline 5mg every night ( after few days I started feeling better and had some deep sleep) but still the problem wasn't gone ( head pain and stiff neck).

I was paying about 30k monthly at the neurologists. It wasn't sustainable and I eventually stopped and decided to take my fate in my own hands. I eventually stopped taking any medication for sleep last November.

Between then and now, I have had some good nights where I slept very deeply and nights when I struggled. I have gone like 2 weeks without sleep issues. But still the pain in the back of the head and neck still persist.

Just yesterday I went to consult another gp and his diagnosis was that it was the poor sleep that is causing the pain in the head and neck. But I still find it difficult to believe. I will be having a video session with an Indian neurologist tommorow and I hope he will make a different diagnosis.

My coming here is to know if anyone have had an experience with my case and I would like to know how they solved their problem.

I will appreciate any suggestion that will be of help.

Thank you.

I go through something very similar, infact almost alike as mine started as malaria too. Its been 6 months of pain and struggles. We've spent alot of money yet no help. If not for my mother I would have comitted suicide 'cos I've been having alot of those thoughts lately.

RSS18:
I’ve been experiencing persistent headaches, neck pain, eye pains, pressure and pain behind the eyes(especially left eye), tingling in the face and pressure in the temple. Basically, it feels like my head is in a vice grip. I was diagnosed by a neurologist as Occipital neuralgia. I was given some medications but it’s not doing much. It basically just takes the edge off but doesn’t take the pains away. I was wondering if anyone out there has experienced something like this and how did they cope ? I’ve been dealing with this for a year now. Everyday is a struggle.

I go through this exact same thing, its really sickening. Have you found help yet?

This stuff has caused me an extra year in school , do you have any history of hitting your head?

talk2hb1:
I finished from UNILAG

Oh, alright sir.

Thank you so much for this information, I never thought anyone understood what I was going through.

Forgive my being Inquisitive sir, but what are the chances that HBOT will help me get better and How much would it cost me?

talk2hb1:
Tooh,
I understand how it feels.
I deferred a session, had two extra years, and I still graduated with strong 2:1. Its not the end of the world bro, just take advantage of the moment to improve yourself.

I can so relate to this 'cause I'm about to defer a session too for health reasons and I still hope to graduate with a 2-1. Thanks for sharing your story it's one that I really connect to, did you graduate from a Nigerian Uni please?

I can so relate to this 'cause I'm about to defer a session too for health reasons and I still hope to graduate with a 2-1. Thanks for sharing your story it's one that I really connect to, did you graduate from a Nigerian Uni please?

I had a concussion in Sept. 2019 and I still have symptoms till today it has gotten worse now even. It's sad to know about how less information people have about this, I feel I'm a corpse in waiting. It's just how I feel, I'm not even sure one can get help in this country.