sensory problems started a few months ago.

Hello, my name is Steven and I am 15 and have asperger syndrome. I am here because I am having sense problems but am not sure what is causing them. 

one day about october or november in 2015 I woke up and my left eye felt weird. A few days before I got a sensation that my left ear lost some hearing and sometimes still get that sensation. My peripheral vision felt sensitive and bright lights and vivid colours in my left peripheral vision would be annoying. This would also cause the area around my eye and left cheek to have a painful kind of pins and needles.(the kind of pain autistics get when they are sensitive to light touch). My actual eye doesn't hurt though. This problem has not gone away although now I get periods for a few days where the eye problem almost disappears completely but comes back again. if i hold my eye socket and left cheek this problem lessens a lot. so maybe it is a nerve/muscle issue. Now very rarely this switches to my right eye and my left eye becomes normal. So it affects one eye at a time. Anyway a few months ago I realised I started getting that same pins and needles sensation all over my face, neck and shoulders, but not usually below that. And light touch against my face and neck now leaves a painful tingling that I have to brush away. However the painful tingling around my left eye can not be brushed away. I realise a lot of autistics have problems where light touch leaves a tingling. A couple weeks back, tinnitus started in my left ear(ringing in ear) which I would rate mild but it got close to moderate at one phase. I also sometimes get tingling in my left ear too now. I have no idea if these are caused by autism. But lets go back to october before this started. I was at school playing football and i got kicked in the head. I didn't get knocked out or anything but I got kicked nonetheless.Anyway I went back to the changing rooms and started to get a vertigo/panic attack sensation.  Ever since then at school I would get these sensations. They would normally start after stopping suddenly after doing exercise or they would start in class if i thought about them. I could normally control them but have had to go to the medical room a few times. This rarely happens at home though I still sometimes get these sensations. So I am wondering if these are caused by a brain/nerve injury? Anyway the only anxiety I had at school really was worrying about losing football matches. Now that I have left school I feel more anxious and depressed. One day I felt really depressed, and then the problem switched to my right eye soon after so this could be linked to anxiety. I am really worried about this. What if they start affecting more senses or they get severe? The only sense problem that is linked to autism is the tingling. I realise autistics might have light sensitivity but how can that only affect one eye? And why in the peripheral vision? And why does my actual eye not hurt? Or might I have a brain tumour or something affecting me? there are 3 causes i think it might be. 1. a brain tumour 2.anxiety/depression and 3. just side affects of autism. But if it is autism then how come I haven't had these my whole life? I never really even had sensory problems. Is it possible for sensory problems to start later in life? I spoke to an asperger once and he told me he has this eye thing and that it will soon develop in the other eye but maybe he misunderstood me. This post was long but I am really worried. Someone help please. PS I have been to the doctor about the eye problems and the optician and everything came back normal apart from slight short sightedness. Please don't post 'go to the doctor' because I haven't written this long post for someone to give me a generic answer like that. I am not asking you to be a medical expert but am asking for guidance on whether this is caused by autism or what else it could be so I can suggest it to my doctor when I go.

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  • steven658 said:

    'Some foods can make me have a bad night's sleep and can disturb me for a few days so I am avoiding curry (I never liked hot curries in any case) and a few things like apples and tomatoes - I have a slight intolerance which I think is called pollen fruit syndrome - there are theories that your diet can affect autism but the evidence for this is not great at the moment.'
    Eating a curry results in an explosive episode on the toilet for pretty much everyone.
    That's normal.


    Curries have a reputation but I think a lot of that is related to the hygiene standards of some curry houses. I don't know if that is normal - it does not have that affect on me but I avoid anything with a high chilli content because I don't enjoy having a burnt mouth.
    steven658 said:

    About the diet, yes I have heard it is all in the gut and GAPS diet can fix this. I am starting to believe this since it would explain autism sensory problems starting later if my gut got worse. I also had a lot of bowel problems and diarrhea as an infant.

    I would give a very cautious recommendation to this australian website http://fedup.com.au/ They believe that diet is a major thing for autism and they provide a list of potentially bad foods that you can leave out of your diet so that you start off with the best chance of having no reactions. You then reintroduce foods to work out what, if anything, you react to. I think that there is something in this but it is quite hard to be properly scientific about it.
    steven658 said:

    Scientists how found a drug that prunes the brain of excess of synapses by reducing levels of a molecule in the immune system.

    Do you have a link for this? I'm interested in the science and medicine relating to autism

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  • steven658 said:

    'Some foods can make me have a bad night's sleep and can disturb me for a few days so I am avoiding curry (I never liked hot curries in any case) and a few things like apples and tomatoes - I have a slight intolerance which I think is called pollen fruit syndrome - there are theories that your diet can affect autism but the evidence for this is not great at the moment.'
    Eating a curry results in an explosive episode on the toilet for pretty much everyone.
    That's normal.


    Curries have a reputation but I think a lot of that is related to the hygiene standards of some curry houses. I don't know if that is normal - it does not have that affect on me but I avoid anything with a high chilli content because I don't enjoy having a burnt mouth.
    steven658 said:

    About the diet, yes I have heard it is all in the gut and GAPS diet can fix this. I am starting to believe this since it would explain autism sensory problems starting later if my gut got worse. I also had a lot of bowel problems and diarrhea as an infant.

    I would give a very cautious recommendation to this australian website http://fedup.com.au/ They believe that diet is a major thing for autism and they provide a list of potentially bad foods that you can leave out of your diet so that you start off with the best chance of having no reactions. You then reintroduce foods to work out what, if anything, you react to. I think that there is something in this but it is quite hard to be properly scientific about it.
    steven658 said:

    Scientists how found a drug that prunes the brain of excess of synapses by reducing levels of a molecule in the immune system.

    Do you have a link for this? I'm interested in the science and medicine relating to autism

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