For the past two months, I have gone
through a lot of changes in my life, as
well as a lot of stress and depression. I
went through a custody battle over my
children, moved out of my boyfriends
house, back into my own...Long story, but
we are still together. Got pregnant, it
was totally unplanned, and definitely
unwanted by the father....I lost it, had a
miscarriage at nearly 8 weeks. I am
financially barely making it, my cat got
taken to the pound by animal control
because he was outside, therefore he
was"farrell" and put down right away, not
even given his 3 days for me to go claim
him ( I called the very next day)....There
basically has been a giant shitcloud
parked over me for quite some time.
I think that I am depressed, but cannot go
on prozak because it puts me to sleep, and
I have 2 small children to raise. I cry
at the drop of a pin, and lash out at my
children over nothing. I do not eat or
sleep properly, and am constantly
fatigued. I can sleep for 8 hours at
night, and still need a nap in the
afternoon. Generally, I eat healthy, and
drink lots of water...I am overweight,
though I am always on the go....
Saturday night, I started feeling like I
have a kidney infection. I had the worst
pain known in my right side, near my
spine, shooting through my abdomen. Also
started with a headache. Sunday, there
were times that I could barely move, and
the headache just wouldn't go away, almost
feels like a hangover, like I am
dehydrated, though I have been drinking
glass after glass of water for 2 days now.
It is now tuesday, and the headache has
gotten worse, feeling more like a migrane
now, I have had chills for the past 24+
hours, just can't seem to get warm, even
cranked up the heat to like 80 last night.
My kids were sweating, and I was
shivering. My eyesight is weird, like I
have spots and such, and sudden movements
almost make me queasy. I have been
drinking over a gallon of water everyday
since sunday, and still feel dehydrated.
Unquenchable thirst. The totally weirdest
thing though is that my skin hurts! It
feels like I have needles inside of my
clothes. If I rub, or roll over on the
sheets, it feels like someone has nails on
a board and dragging it across my body. I
have had this ocasionally in the past few
months, but has never lasted more than a
few hours. This time it has been here
since saturday night.
I totally do not have the money to go to
the doctor, although "they" claim that I
make too much money at +/- 19,000 a year
to get any kind of aid, for either me or
my children. They do not take into
consideration that I have a mortgage, a
car payment, insurances to go with both,
two children to
support.....Yahde..Yahde..Ya...If I didn't
have any of this stuff and lived in
section 8 housing, then I guess I would
qualify....Working class is not allowed to
fall on hard times I guess....I just do
not know what to do.....
Does anyone have any answers to help me
out????
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 12-05-03 08:15am
I know it's ages since you posted & I
hope things are looking up!! Still I
wanted to let you know that there are
answers - although sometimes they're hard
to
find!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a general rule if you are really cold
(& others aren't) then you have a high
temperature & actually need (i know
this is hard but it works) to take
clothes/blankets etc off get ice or cold
packs &/or a fan onto you & even
cool baths/showers & asprin/panadol 2
every hour even is ok(for a day) if your
temp is high. The other symptoms may have
been due to you doing the opposite??
Definitely keep the fluids up.
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 12-05-03 08:27am
Part 2 of my reply!!
Stress & depression (not to mention
pregnacy & miscarriage) can cause all
sorts of hormonal & neurological
changes in the body. Ok hormonal will to
some degree right itself but neurological
this is harder & i'm not a Dr. One
thing that can happen though (& this
will cause weight loss or gain - depends
on the person) is that stress/depression
can stop something called tryptophan
getting to the brain (you can't od on it
& you can get it in things like
bananas/plain yoghurt/some cheeses etc)
& through to balance the serotonin in
the brain (serotonin well basically I
guess it sort of keeps us balanced).
Gentle exercise also helps serotonin, go
for short 30 min walks 1-2 times a day to
a park (you can take the kids - they'll
benefit too. The exercise will also help
get dhea working if you want to use
it....
Dhea supplements starting at about 100mg
pd then reducing to 25-50mg pd (you really
need a dr here!!!!) will help reduce
weight, clear your mind, help clear your
thinking etc.
Go on the net & go to a search engine
& check these things out for yourself.
I'm not selling - only passing on what is
helping me & my daughter (& i'm
over while she's under weight yet the same
regime helps us both.)
