Hey all,

Let me precursor what I'm about to write with a few things.
1.) Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope this group was ok.
Please let me know the relevant group I should post to if not, or if I
should also post there.
2.) I know this is not the place to go to for a diagnosis and I don't
expect one, but I have looked through these newsgroups till I'm blue
in the face and haven't gotten anywhere. I have also been to my doctor
about4-5 times for this.
3.) the last time I went to the doc and asked for another MRI (ill get
into that) she told I could get one but since I'm going to be
in-between jobs soon, that if they did find something wrong with me, I
would have an very hard time getting insurance again. So if I could
wait, I shouldn't go.
4.) I cant imagine there are people who read these newsgroups just to
give out advice, but I assume this must be the case. You must be
saints.

Ok, think that's it. Ill try to make this as concise as possible.

This may not be relevant to the rest but a little over a year ago I
noticed a tremor in my left hand. They sent me for an MRI. Came back
fine. They diagnose me with an essential tremor. Seems to have calmed
down a recently, or I'm blocking it out, either or, hehehe.

Around Aug 15th I tried to quite smoking. (Smoked for 17 years) (I
don't think this is relevant.. but maybe it is)
Sometimes in the following week I was hit with a bad spout of vertigo
at work. Then again a few days later. the actual vertigo only lasted
for about 10 secs or so but the residual effects of not feeling quite
right lasted a few hours.
Around Aug 30th. Hit with a devastating round of vertigo. On the day
it hit me, gave me a headache, hurt to look at bright objects, hard to
concentrate, btoke out in sweats. This time however, it didn't go
away. I mean, the vertigo went away, but the buzzing in my head did
not. And the sensitivity to light did not. This lasted for 8 weeks!
Although over the 8 weeks it faded away. So week 2 was not as bad as
week 1. But I would say it was still in the 'sever' category for a
month. During this time, but not at the start, I felt as if some of my
fingertips lost some sensation. But not numb (as far as pins and
needles goes), bur certainly not feeling right.  Went to the doctor 3
times during this. 1st time, said I probably had an inner ear
infection. 1 week (or so) later I called back right before the
antibiotics I had ran out to say there was no change. They gave me
more, Called back again. No change. I forget what happened with the
Doc then but there was no meds and no diagnosis. They also didn't want
to send me for another MRI. They said since I had the last one so
'recently' they had ruled out anything 'to bad'
Started smoking again. Felt like I was dying anyway. Went to the doc 3
days later (this would be the 3rd visit for this). Almost felt fine
that day (did not feel fine 2 days earlier when appointment was made)
. Doc gave me some pills for migraines. Supposed to be like ibuprofen
or something but they last all day. Even though I really didn't have
what I would describe as a headache. More of a buzzing.
Felt fine for a couple months. This is now about... umm... Late
September? November? not sure.
About a month ago, I decide to stop smoking again. I feel fine, I
don't want to die. So I quite.
2 weeks later, almost to the day. I get the vertigo again. Not nearly
as bad as the last time. But I still have the near constant buzzing in
my head, hard to ceoncentrate, and the sensation that my finger pads
or some of my fingers go numb. That comes and goes, the numbness. Also
a slight sensitivity to bright light.
Its been almost a month now since I quite smoking and 2 weeks since
the first of the new attacks (I got about 3 of them). And I'm almost
back to feeling fine once again. But not quite.
Something of note. I always feel fine first thing in the morning.
About 2 hours into my day does it gently come into full effect (the
buzzing in my head) and then sometimes the fingers get that sensation.
And dies down a bit before the end of the day.
Through all of this ive racked my brain to what the problem could be.
I thought maybe I was having a reaction to Rogain?
I wasn't hydrating myself enough?
Lack of vitamins?
And of course things like MS. But I don't seem to have the symptoms of
anything in particular.

I cant believe that withdrawal symptoms from quitting smoking would be
anything like that of which I have exp.
I mean, I quite for about 2 months about 2 years ago and this never
happened.
I mean, a headache would make sense but were talking about sever
vertigo, a buzzing head, sensitivity to light, numbness.. etc.

And the biggest problem now is that I'm so depressed. Since it has
came back I assume its going to come back again and again. And maybe
it will be worse then the 1st time, next time. I'm having a hard time
getting on with my life knowing that I have spent 4 of the last 6
months or so suffering from some mystery illness. And of course this
is all compounded by my tremor, that doesn't seem so bad anymore, but
then again, I'm not as obsessed with 'looking' at it as I was when I
first noticed it.

anyhow.. I need some suggestion, a direction, what could be causing
this.

Anyone?

I would prefer you post here as to help anyone else who might have
this problem, but if you prefer to e-mail me, please do so at dannnk
at hotmail .com

Thanks in advance.