Braingate, Day One (Am I just "nuts"?)

I'm having a problem.

I've been very easily confused over the course of the week.

My short-term memory and information recall have been severely inhibited, as well.

I can visualize/imagine/mentally plan doing things, but then the thoughts about doing the things often feel blocked and I'm unable to translate the thoughts into actions.

I'm experiencing fullness and tingling behind my face (nose, eyes, forehead).

I'm experiencing a fullness and dull pain at the base of my head / brain-stem.

I'm experiencing uncomfortable pressure behind my eyes.

It feels like pressure is slowly increasing inside my cranium.

I'm experiencing neuropathy in the bridge and tip of my nose.

I have been experiencing twitching in my torso and legs since last night (September 7). When I am relaxed, I feel a "jolt" travel from the base of my head down my spine.

I experienced a sharp "pop" inside my head behind my right eye during a coughing fit on Monday. (I have experienced similar sensations in the past from vomiting, intense sexual activity.)

I have been experiencing positive, favorable changes in personality that I have been attributing to the somewhat recent increase in my Prozac dosage.

The tingling sensation is strongest in the bone at the edges of the nasal orifice and eye holes, behind the right eye, and at the base of the head, to the right.

Occasionally, the spot behind my right eye becomes painful.

Occasionally, the sensation at the base of my head becomes sharp and painful.

Occasionally, I can also feel the pain at the base of my head through the flesh and into my throat.

I'm experiencing tinnitus intermittently. When I'm experiencing it, it's severe.

My right thumb is weak and neuropathic (this may be due to RSI... I <3 my smartphone).

When I was checking in to the Emergency Room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, I could speak at most three words at a time. I had to concentrate a lot. I can't even do that now.

I don't have memories of this ever happening to me before.

Editorial note: +Rachel had taken me to Lawrence Memorial Hospital when I seemed incoherent and "out of it", and complained of my gradually worsening condition since my coughing fit on Monday. There was concern that I could have been experiencing a brain bleed or that I'd had a blood clot travel from one of my bedridden legs to my head. I'd since been transferred from Lawrence Memorial Hospital to Tufts Medical Center. As I was being loaded onto the stretcher at LMH, my right ear started bleeding. It's apparently only a superficial wound. The doctor at LMH who inspected it accused me of giving myself a self-inflicted wound. I was insulted, but I had no idea that this accusation would portend my experiences to come.