Any good doctors looking for a Challenge? (revised :D)?
I want to know, what is making me sick, and what I can do to fix it. So here's my story, Summer of 2008 I started to become a lot sicker than I ever had before. I've always been the girl that get's the flu every year, gets any cold or cough I come in contact with, but that summer was different. I would go out with my friends and I just wanted to go home and sleep, I traveled to Texas to see some friends that I had not seen in almost a year and the only thing I wanted to do was take naps during the day. I was constantly taking ibuprofen to attempt to get my three week long headache to go away. That week I started forgetting things that just happed, nothing like my name, but I would walk out of the room almost in tears and not twenty seconds later I forgot what I was crying about.
I came home after a couple weeks visiting my friends and my headaches started to turn into migraines. I visited my family doctor he ordered some simple blood tests and said I was slightly anemic, also said it was nothing else to worry about. He asked me to take some prenatal vitamins said it would help out, so I took the vitamins.
A couple weeks later I started school. I would come home from school and just want to sleep, my eyes were super sensitive to light and I would come home in tears. I couldn't handle my workload in school with all that going on so I dropped my advanced classes, started missing classes, falling asleep in class, not getting all my homework done and it just wasn't me because I'm the "smart girl" the girl who gets great grades, and people come to me for help.
So I went back to my family doctor and when he saw me in excruciating pain he immediately started to worry, gave me a shot of medicine in my leg, I believe it was imitrex? When this did not help her prescribed viccodin and scheduled an MRI for two days later. I got home and Viccodin DIDN'T HELP. A bit down the line, I received a call from my doctor saying that they found three unidentified white lesions in my MRI said they were nothing to really worry about, but I ended up going to a neurologist to stay on the safe side, they prescribed me so many different medicines, I don't even recall the names of all of them, but finally when my mom saw me in so much pain she took me to the hospital and they put me to sleep.
They sent me home with 30 mg of amitriptyline HCI nightly for my migraines. Still continuing that medicine I only had a couple headaches a week and only a 2-3 migraines a month, I was so grateful to the hospital. Still with fatigue almost daily some days just still wanting to sleep I didn't really worry because I wasn't in as much pain as before but a couple months passed by and it started getting worse.
This continued for about a year and a half, and that's what brings me here to you today. Other than the migraines I also have chronic fatigue. When I read, sometimes my words get all jumbled and I can't concentrate even on a simple sentence. My friends have been going out for almost a month and I haven't gone ANYWHERE again just simply not me. I haven't been to school in two weeks, and I have been in and out of the hospital for bad asthma. I promise you I'm not into any drinking or drugs. I don't really have the energy to do much more than necessary. I've been told I have vitamin D deficiency, so I take some vitamins and all is well. About a week ago I tested positive for strep, an ear infection (I'm always getting sick).No family history of allergies, but I seem to have more food allergies than all people I know combined food and air both.
No family history of illnesses. Mother and grandmother both had asthma, but outgrew it. No history of migraines in my family. I bruise easily, and I'm almost always sore, mainly my back giving me troubles, which at my age shouldn't be a problem. My headaches are usually one sided (right side), but when I get migraines they are centered towards the back of my head. I'm a very clam, good mood, I'm the girl that is always happy, not depressed or anything like that. Now, my newest, scariest symptom of all… I've been seeing things. Things my mind knows aren't there, but my eyes are seeing, it's been anything as little as a spider that I can't get off my arm, or as odd as a small boy looking at me a few feet away in my home.
Answer by Kollana
I am not a doctor, however my friends sister had similar problems with fatigue, headaches, a horrible immune system and seeing things and it turned out to be a valve in her heart that hadn't closed properly. You may want to go in for a cardiogram since the mri didn't show anything too unusual in your brain. Hallucinations may be from the medications you are on. ask your doctor, they may switch them. Thats the only idea that i had, i am sorry that you feel so crappy, i hope that you feel better and find out what this is!
Answer by Jimbob
I'm no doctor but have experienced a lot of the same symptoms. Possible answers are: chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, lack of good quality sleep possibly caused by sleep apnea, medication, or other factors. I know how you feel because all my life I worked 16 hrs a day but last few years pain and fatigue have got so bad I am now totally disabled and sometimes don't even step foot out of the house for 2 weeks at a time. I'm so tired I have to lie down now but email me through yahoo answers and when I feel better I will share my knowledge and experience with you.
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