About a month ago, I started having a weird feeling in my head. It was like I was dizzy, but not really. It was like I was light-headed, but not really. I couldn’t really explain it… and I still can’t. It’s a strange, fuzzy, tingling feeling that I generally feel in my head, but occasionally I’ll feel a tingle in my cheeks or lips. It’s weird, and there are a lot of possible explanations.
I cut out caffeine for a while, and again today, and nothing. I stayed super hydrated, still nothing. It’s just more and more random, and yet coming on more and more often. It’s never painful, not even a little, so that’s a good thing. And the only time it didn’t occur is when I was on vacation for a week in the Caribbean. Yeah, I KNOW.
I felt fine until a couple days after being back, and then the dizzy/fuzzy feeling showed up again. So I saw my doctor, in the midst of all the chaos I’ve created in my life in the past ten days, and now I get to undergo scans and MRI’s and who knows what else.
Unfortunately, I didn’t know any of this would occur ten days ago. I felt fine, and had no dizzy/weird/tingly feeling in my head, but rather was focusing on getting out of a bad situation, which is still a bad situation. But the unfortunate part is, that bad situation meant I had insurance.
Now, for the next 30 days, that is not the case. And here I am, with a who-knows-what in my head, and in four days I will not have insurance. So I guess what I’m saying is, don’t quit your horrible, toxic, but generously benefited job if you have a weird tingly feeling in your head once or twice.
I’m sure I will be fine. But still, come on, life. Really?
The End.
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Oh dear, not so good, is it? I sometimes similar feelings without the tingly part and have always just attributed it to a blood sugar thing.
But will your insurance end immediately upon your job ending? I know mine went on till the end of the calendar year when I quit mine. Do check.
oh shit. that’s fucking frustrating. im sorry lady… i hope that it’s all nothing and it doesn’t break the bank too bad.
(and sorry for my dirty mouth today!)
What about COBRA? You should be able to keep your insurance going for a while with that…unless you don’t get it because you quit rather than being laid off?
Backofpack beat me to it. Definitely check into the Cobra thing.
And keep us posted!
Best wishes.. thanks for keeping us posted.
You have a cheering section.
Maybe it is good you got out of the job before it made you any sicker.
I would definitely check out COBRA – you don’t want to get caught up on any of the “previous condition” bullshit.
Shouldn’t you have COBRA? Oh, I see that K has already asked about that. Yes, definitely get COBRA. It’s ridiculously expensive but if you have to have doctor’s visits and tests, it will be ridiculously expensive without it.
That being said, I’m going to go with stress. Dr. Google and I have consulted and we think it’s stress. A Caribbean vacation should do the trick.
COBRA wasn’t that ridiculously expensive when I had to have it – maybe yours won’t be bad either.
I hope the head tingly is just a weird stress symptom.
It sounds like it might be if it went away when you were on vacation.
Oh dear – though I am sure it is nothing. It could easily have to do with all the stress you are under as a result of toxic job/quitting toxic job – which may also be why it didn’t happen while on vacay.
However, I see that people suggested COBRA, which is not a bad route for a temporary solution until you can positively rule out what is wrong.