university and am NOT a hypochondriac. I have not been to a doctor's
office in 9 years. The following symptoms are a result of not going to
the doctor when I should for the last ten years. I don't like doctors'
offices and don't go to them except when I absolutely need to. I've
got a hell of a lot of symptoms and I'm not even sure they are all
related. I'm getting blood work done tomorrow and will see a doctor
after that. In the mean time does anyone have any ideas or experience
with this type of problems?
-Immense fatigue. (I sleep a minimum of 8 hours per night but can
usually not survive even five hours of the day without the
overpowering need to go back to bed or falling asleep without meaning
to)
-Shortness of breath (Akin to when one has just eaten a very large
meal even if I have not eaten at all. Shallow breaths and a lot of
yawning).
-Lower and upper back/hip ache. (When I go to bed at night it feels
like I just played an entire game of rugby. My lower back and hips and
up as high as (and sometimes including?) my kidneys THROB immensely.
My shoulders and lower neck feel the same way. When I wake up my back
is often stiff and just as painful or worse. If I go to bed feeling
not too bad I wake up much worse. I thought it was my mattress so I
paid $600 for a good one without any noticeable difference. At times I
can't get to sleep because of the pain and not being able to relive
it. Other nights it's barely noticeable.
-Chest, shoulder, and arm pain. (Sharp knifing pains occasionally pass
from my collar bone on the right hand side down my armpit and into my
arm, at times reaching my wrist. Pain from my collar bone through my
body cavity to the area of my kidney on the right side as well. Chest
pain in the muscle on the left side follows the same pattern. At times
it is located just above/around/in my heart. They always repeatedly
fire for as long as 5 seconds. Hurts enough to cause tears.)
-Light-headed-ness. (If I am lying down then stand up. Or if I exert
myself as in climbing stairs at times. Sometimes but rarely it occurs
when I am just sitting still. It varies in severity).
-Dizziness. (Related to the above light-headed-ness).
-Trouble swallowing: dysphagia (food stops just above my stomach but
after my lungs and may take several minutes to continue through or I
vomit it back up. Could be related to "chest pressure" listed below?)
-Stomach/lung pressure. (When I lay on my chest or my back I feel
unusual pressure between my upper stomach area and the lower right
side of my left lung. Sometimes its like the left side of my chest is
more full than it should be. It is something that I have only started
noticing the last 2 or so months. It is disturbing enough that I often
avoid sleeping on my back or chest).
-Lung pain. (When I breathe deeply I occasionally get a searing pain
in the lower right side of my right lung or the right side of my left
lung).
-Heavy heart beat. (Not a racing heart. More like an old car going up
a hill that is just too big. Large hard thumping sometimes for much
more than an hour at a time. Like as if I had been running and my
heart was pounding hard but for some reason not fast. Usually occurs
when I'm sitting down doing nothing without apparent triggers.
-General full upper body aching. (24/7 sore muscles, kidneys, stomach,
whatever. Like I worked out but I don't and its inside too. It doesn't
matter if I'm sitting, lying or standing. Ache, ache, ache…)
Not sure if this is applicable but:
-Muscle twitching. (Many years ago (perhaps 10 or 12) my right eyelid
would twitch randomly. Eventually (5 years ago?) it spread to my right
cheek. In the last six months I have experienced uncontrollable
twitching in my left pectoral muscle, left bicep, and left forearm.
And as a side note:
-Sensitive Kidneys. (I was on the maximum allowed dosage of
Clindamycin by way of IV for 3 Trouble swallowing (food stops just
above my stomach but after my lungs and may take several minutes to
continue through or I vomit it back up. Could be related to "chest
pressure" listed below?)4 days and then 300mg orally for a week last
October to treat a throat/lymph gland infection that threatened to
spread to my blood. It absolutely destroyed my intestines (diarrhea,
hemorrhoids, bloating, etc) for several months though I am back to
normal now. My kidneys have been immensely sensitive to touch and
pressure ever since. I think it may be a side effect because I was
never like that before in my life.)
I started experiencing some of the symptoms about two years ago but in
the last year it has become detrimental and the last 5 or so months
everything has gotten much worse. I do not always feel this way but
the vast majority of the time I do. I do not always feel all of the
symptoms in the run of a day thank god, but at times I have.
I do not suffer from any form of depression and have far above average
grades in university. I love my life. I think I'm going crazy
