Random Mild Symptoms Tied to Bigger Disorder? Posted: 07-13-04 10:42am
I'm 21 years old, and have always had
perfect health, i'm a former athlete and
former extremely active energetic person.
Over the past few months my life has been
impacted by a list of symptoms that are
not that serious by themselves, but added
up together prove to be quite annoying.
A visit to my doctor seemed to leave him a
bit skeptical, he thinks i'm probably just
not eating right, or excercising enough,
or that it's a side effect of being 21 and
partying. I am going back shortly to
hopefully delve further, maybe get some
blood work to be safe. I have gotten
rid of doctor's before for not taking my
ailments seriously, and I am not sure if
this falls into that. He said since
none of my symptoms are really severe they
could be little explainable things due to
my lifestyle. Anyways, I was wondering
if I should get a new doctor, or if anyone
on this board had a magic idea of what
might be wrong with me so I can suggest to
my doctor to look into that. Here are my
symptoms:
-hard time falling asleep at night, but
once I do i'm like dead, no amount of
sleep will make me feel refreshed, 3
hours, 8 hours, 11 hours, I feel terrible
when I wake up no matter what. During
the day i'm still tired, but not like
tired where I could take a nap, just
generally tired.
-for most of the day especially the first
few hours, I am seriously lightheaded, and
have an impossible time focusing myself
and getting any energy to do work. The
whole day consists of me fighting the
craving to do nothing and lay down, which
still doesn't make me feel great, but
gives me the best opportunity to feel
good.
-i used to workout 2 hours everyday, and
the only fatigue I would get was from my
muscles being worked, and getting tired.
Now when trying to excercise my muscles
don;t get tired, I get tired much before.
And not the normal excercising type of
tired, the type of tired where I just want
to go to sleep instead of working out
which I have no energy for.
-then there are my eyes. My eyes
randomly get seriously glassy, out of
focus, and just feel heavy. There is
also a random but mild pain that comes a
couple times a week in the general area of
my left eye.
-lasty, I do get random pains on the left
side of my chest/upper abdomen. They
aren't anything severe, and nothing I
can't take, but I feel they are tied into
whatever disorder I have.
Any insight on my dilemma will be greatly
appreciated.
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Forum Girl
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 207 Location: Orlando, Florida
Posted: 07-13-04 18:08pm
Is it possible you are anemic? It would
explain some of the tiredness. I totally
agree with the doctor thing. If you are
not satisfied definitely go to a different
doctor. If you feel you aren't being
taken seriously or not getting the care
you think you should, immediately look for
a new doctor. Your health and well being
is top priority.
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 07-13-04 20:40pm
You may have more than one thing wrong too
so keep that in mind - each would make the
other worse.
The sleep thing sounds like sleep apnea
& that includes being tired all day
& it would impact on your ability to
& response to exercise. It could also
be hepatitis or I don't know the "right"
name but "sleeping sickness".
The pains could be from a number of things
- but eyes - i'd check cholesterol &
also for diabetes (regardless of how
healthy you are some peoples systems just
don't function properly & they can get
these peoblems due to that or hereditary
genetic problems).
The chest pains don't seem to fit - being
21 & "fit" you may overreact to pain
or be able to "stand" it so underreact so
it could be stress (worry about all this -
which by the way could also cause the eye
symptoms) or heart issues due to stress or
cholesterol or other more serious
issues.
Before you see your dr or a new one!! Try to
keep a journal recording when these
various symptoms occur, what you have been
doing & eating & drinking (at 21 -
patying drs will sasume drunk possibly
even drugged etc & if this is not the
case you need to really tell them this but
if there are - or have been - drugs heavy
alcohol use the dr needs to know this as
it may be the cause of your problem!!).
The journal should also mention food
intake - what how much & time - there
a re a number of auto-immune disorders
(not aids) like irritable bowel syndrome
to name just one that can cause all sorts
of problems.
Have you lost/gained any weight since this
started? Did anything happen to change or
affect your life about the time this
started - anything?
Do not hesitate to see another dr - I was
deaf for 10 years drs kept saying I was
fine till finally we found one that would
acknowledge the problem - look beyond
appearances - 12 operations later I was
basically fine!! My daughter last year
lost alot of weight so the drs said
anorexia - after all - teenage girl what
else sould it be - regardless of the fact
that their own tests showed her to be
eating & keeping it down etc etc - I
discharged her & threatened legal
action - she self-diagnosed aftermuch
research irritable bowel - she's gone down
to 32kg (about 68lbs) once she stopped
eating the stuff the drs ordered her to
eat & ent onto the ibs diet she
immediately regained weight (actually abit
much!!) - but she's still traumatized by
the treatment last year at the hands of
so-called specialists.
I told you this as a warning - you
wouldn't leave your car in the hands of a
mechanic you didn't trust would you? So
isn't your body, your life more important
than your car? Find a dr who will listen
& do tests - blood, urine, hormone
levels, x-rays etc.
new one!! Try to
keep a journal recording when these
various symptoms occur, what you have been
doing & eating & drinking (at 21 -
patying drs will sasume drunk possibly
even drugged etc & if this is not the
case you need to really tell them this but
