One beautiful day in April of 2012, I was struck with a debilitating bout of vertigo. As soon as I got my wits back about me, I made my way to the ever ignorant emergency room where I was told I simply had an ear infection, and that likely caused the vertigo. I asked when the dizziness would subside and was told when the ear infection clears up, the vertigo would disappear. But it didn't. And I didn't have an ear infection.
I was then referred to an ENT on the thought that my ear drum might have ruptured, creating the vertigo. Not the case. I had an amazing ENT, who ran multiple tests to figure out where my balance problems and dizziness was stemming from.He ran hearing tests (passed perfectly), balance tests (so not fun, but again..passed perfectly), blood work (all perfectly normal results), and then last try was an MRI. It was the MRI that finally showed something!! While everything in my brain looked great, there was a pineal gland cyst.
I was told it was incidental and nothing to be concerned about, but let's be honest, if you were told there was a cyst in the center of your brain, wouldn't you be just a little concerned? Yeah, me too.
My awesome ENT referred me to a neurologist since nothing I was experiencing was ear related. However, that neurologist was no help, looked at me like I was a nut case, tried to give me some prescription for head aches I was now getting non stop and sent me on my way. The medication was awful, I had horrible side effects and quickly stopped taking it. I then began my search on the pineal cyst, thinking there must be something to this, and discovered that I was not alone in what I was dealing with, as there were many others struggling with the exact same symptoms I was, and they all had this cyst! So I started googling Symptomatic Pineal Cyst and find that they are considered rare and most Dr's don't believe they cause any symptoms whatsoever. Great. I'd be in for a fight, but I had no idea the fight that was waiting for me.......
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