What to do?

Hi again guys. I’m sure I have something other than a somataform disorder. I am so dizzy all of the time, falling into things and people. The fatigue is crazy as is the beeps in my ears. My head feels all heavy and staticy.

It’s awful because my whole life is affected by this slowness and my balance is way off. I wonder is it sz as in early stage. Why else am I prescribed two antipsychotics.

Two antipsychotics for somataform disorder? Don’t think so. Whether things haven’t worsened in two years doesn’t mean I am not suffering daily. I’m suffering six years and I have worsened. Especially since taking the meds, I am more woozy. I know they take time to work but I am not buying I have somataform disorder.

Thanks for your thoughts always. The beeping in my head is like music notes high pitched like signal sounds. I only hear these when everything is quiet. Plus I have lots of fullness in my head. Six years looking for answers. I am a suspicious person and do feel I am being watched or people can read my thoughts so my psychiatrist is aware of all of this and maybe its heading down the sz route I think.

I am practically disabled with this so I don’t go anywhere except to the shops. I hate people and their going on about things in normal day to day stuff while I couldn’t give a hoot. Friends talk as if they are full of it. Can’t be bothered anymore listening to them.

Hopefully my psychiatrist will talk to me more about what the hell is going on with me. All my lesions are in the frontal lobes. I thought I had MS, I was convinced I did and thought the docs were hiding something from me. I don’t know what is wrong with me but for sure something is very wrong. Everything is claustrophobic as in I don’t feel there is much room to move around. Falling into things and clumsy and awkward.

Any of you have these type of symptoms with sz?I can’t make head or tail of what is happening to me only its horrendous.

Hugs

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Im sorry to hear. My diagnoses are somatoform and schizotypic personality disorder. There is a high frequency of somatoform disorders among patients with a sz personality disorder.

A somatoform diagnosis is very often followed by just the physical symptoms you are mentioning, ringing in the ears, slowness, lost balance.

I still have the same symptoms, but i’m doing better now. One of the things i did, was accepting my somatoform diagnose, then the symptoms was less annoying, keep my attention on my atypical kind of schizophrenia… Hope you get better soon.

How do you know you have frontal lobe lesions?
An MRI showed that?

You can have SZ and other diseases, its possible and many here have 2+ psychiatric illnesses.

Yes my MRI shows lesions in both frontal lobes, more predominantly in my right frontal lobe. No increase so far.

19 in total.

Don’t know but maybe these are why everything is so disorganized.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks for your thoughts bluebutterfly. I will talk to my psychiatrist again but I don’t think he thinks it sz. I don’t know. I feel I do have something more going on but I’m not a doc.

I will accept my diagnosis of somataform disorder like you and see if it helps to ease my symptoms. My psychiatrist don’t say very much just that I have somataform disorder. Like I say I take Quetiapine and Ariprazole plus venaflaxine.

Will see how it all goes. Hopefully you feeling good.

Hugs

Brain lesions on the right side are less dangerous than lesions in the left side. Right side has to do with body senses, perception, body parts position in space information, balance, math skills and creativity.
Maybe that explains your symptoms.
Nothing you can do about it other than accepting your symptoms and be positive because the left side is not damaged.

Yes I think I have no choice but to accept my symptoms. My special awareness is all out.

The lesions 13 on the right and 6 on the left probably explain my symptoms but it’s not clinical all the neurologists said. My psychiatrist is 100% its somataform disorder.

Just have to accept and hope for the best.

Thanks for your thoughts and putting things into perspective.

Hugs

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