Brain Fog & Head Pressure: Triggered by Eating (Anything)

Eating (anything) triggers a huge wave of brain fog, fatigue, face/head/ear pressure, and autophony in my ear. All on the left side - left ear, left side of head and face.

I have all the classic neuro symptoms - crippling brain fog, high anxiety, delayed vision, slurred speech, etc.

I know many of you suffer from neurological symptoms and there are thousands of posts on the topic so I’m going to concentrate this post and hope to hear from other members with a similar experience - Neuro symptoms (Brain fog and the rest) being triggered by Eating

The brain fog onset is immediate before digestion kicks in - it isn’t a food intolerance or digestive issue. I’ve done all the diets and gut cleansing. I’m convinced that it is nervous system dysfunction and/or neurosteroid imbalance where my brain is reacting improperly to certain stimuli (eating in my case).

Benzos (GABA modulator) lessen the severity of this phenomena, further pointing to nervous system dysfunction / neurosteroids firing improperly.

Over the 5+ years of dealing with this, I’ve had to radically alter my schedule to avoid eating any time I need to use my brain.

Eager to hear from other members with a similar experience. Anything that has helped, any doctors you’ve seen that are knowledgeable and have helped. I’ve been researching this for years and have a lot of context to offer for anyone interested in connecting and exploring treatment options.

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I think its Histamin

Interesting and thanks for sharing this. Do you have a similar experience with eating or an issue with histamine?

Yes i have heavy Histaminproblems…

Yes I also had this exact problem only all of my issues are on the right side and in the right ear. Since recovering I don’t really feel any of this anymore, occasionally I’ll get a little feeling of irritating pressure in the inner right ear but nothing severe like it was. Like you since so much was able to trigger it, it feels like some intense neurological dysregulation where the nervous system got stuck in a loop somehow and couldn’t get out. These reactions from the gut with me would begin immediately as they hit the stomach too. I haven’t tried benzos so I can’t comment on that.

My recovery was long range with a lot of up’s and downs but see my last post on the final push that got me out of this. Weird question but do you have strange reactions to fish? Using cooked fish specifically was part of what got me out of this whatever happened, salmon specifically but a while back cooked bluefin tuna specifically was able to give me energy when nothing else was able to get me further though the benefits of that didn’t stick like they did with cooked salmon and left me feeling more jittery while salmon initially before it was just more energizing to consume made me a lot more calm and emotional.