
Suggest Treatment For Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety the main culprit.
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I read your question as well as the other queries you have made carefully. It is obvious that you are feeling very distressed due to this issue and I am sorry about that.
I must say that (fortunately) I agree with my colleagues in saying that there is no brain or spinal cord lesion. That constellation of symptoms is of a very scattered character which corresponds to no definite stroke lesion. As for the spots you feel to be palpating I can assure you that you can not palpate your vertebral artery, it traverses through a hole in the vertebral arches, so sort of inside a bony canal with muscles on top of it, so even had there been a dissection you wouldn't be able to touch it. The blood from the ear is not related to stroke or dissection either, since CT hasn't evidenced any ear issue must be due to local trauma during the cleaning act.
The rest of the symptoms as I said are too wide spread to be related to a one specific cause and I believe to be related to anxiety. I am not saying that every symptom is related to anxiety, some of the pain is related to muscle spasm you were told about and it can irradiate towards your back of the head and shoulder. Anxiety however is multiplying your perception of those symptoms and causing new ones like the tingling, weakness etc.
So you should definitely try to relax, take some over the counter pain killers and muscle relaxants for the pain. If persistent you should consult the doctor who diagnosed anxiety disorder preferably a psychiatrist or neurologist, psychotherapy and some adjustment in the therapy can be made.
I remain at your disposal for other questions.


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Cognitive skills are a subjective affair, in order to say that there is a cognitive impairment it must be proven through objective neuropsychological testing, standardized test to evaluate different components of cognition.
That being said anxiety is one of the most common confounders as it has been proven to affect concentration which is what I believe to be your case.
Anyway even if there was a chance my impression was wrong I am confident that it is not the case because you have had a CT scan. A stroke sizable enough to affect your cognitive skills would have definitely been visible on CT.
Also since your biggest worry is a vertebral artery dissection causing a stroke, if that was the case it still wouldn't affect cognition as the stroke would affect the posterior areas, the brain stem and little brain, while cognitive functions are related to the anterior brain cortex which isn't supplied by the vertebral arteries.
I hope that serves to reassure you.

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