Abby, like everyone else said keep pushing for answers. Another funny thing about stress is that sometimes you dont realize how much stress you are under. I didn't "feel" stressed but when I got sick I was working 30 hrs a week (and competing strongly for my position), going to school full time, taking care of the house, dealing with relationship problems, and was staying out past 2 am over 3 nights a week and trying to do it all perfectly. When I read that now I say, "wow, that is a lot of stress!" But it didn't feel that way at the time. I realize now that most people don't load their plates that much. I don't think I had even sat on the couch and just relaxed for over a year. Guess I'm making up for it Another good story is my withdrawal from 3 months of taking lorazepam 4 times a day, cold turkey for an eeg. It was then that I truly learned how powerful my mind can be. I was seeing flashes (like lightning) every 20 minutes, I couldn't focus on a rock if you asked me to. I was sweating profusely. I'm pretty sure my heart is still running laps around that block, because of how many times it leaped out of my chest. If I thought about my arm it would hurt, if I thought about my ear it would hurt etc. Essentially, pretty much anything I could imagine being wrong was turned into a reality by my mind. I took 25 showers that night, talked to 5 nurses on the phone, urinated probably 100 times, and didn't sleep the entire time. It truly let me know what my mind was capable of.