Question: Thanks for your response. I feel I left out a few pertinent details and want to quickly address them, then mention 2 diagnostic possibilities I fear and ask your opinion on them. First off, I was in a car accident in 2006 which severely fractured my facial bones and, despite no obvious brain bleeds on the MRI, I was told there could be some minor brain damage. All my issues began directly after the accident. I have PTSD, namely a fear or riding in cars with strangers or driving too fast. I have anxiety attacks (treated with Klonopin) and I doubt the issue was overdose because my doctor halved the dose of it a few months ago. SSRI and SNRIs give me several side effects including weight gain and bladder retention issues so I felt most comfortable with the Klonopin- better anxiety control, less wetting myself. I have a history of drug abuse, but this was limited to opiates (for the first 6 months after my accident, at which poi
nt I quit cold turkey), ecstasy (always reagent tested to verify MDMA presence without adulterants) and psychedelics. All that being said, my 2 fears from these sudden, unexpected and novel dizziness, fainting, visual disturbances and muscle weakness are the following: 1)Transient Ischemic Attacks (seems to fit fairly well with you suggestion of pseudostrokes). The 2nd is Narcolepsy. I suffer from hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis, and chronic daytime sleepiness, even when I get a full night's sleep. I avoided this possibility before , but the "episodes" as I call them fit extremely well with Cataplexy, the defining feature of Narcolepsy. So now, after that long message, my question is do you think there is a chance of this being Narcolepsy or TIAs?