So many health issues, are they related??
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I have had just a medley of health issues for longer than I can even remember.
The worst is debilitating nausea that makes me want to cry. every. single. day. without reprieve.
I have piercing headaches, consistently in the exact same spot, on the back, lower left side of my head. They come on very suddenly afternoon or evening and last for several hours. Again, these occur daily (however, whereas the nausea first started when I was a young child, the headaches have just started in the last month or so).
My menstrual cycle has been completely off. I am on Junel birth control and have been for several years. I take it consistently every day. However, on my placebo week when I should have my period, I never seem to get it. I sometimes have some spotting but not much. More often, in the middle of my cycle when I should be ovulating, I get off and on bleeding for several days. This has all been within the last year or so. Before that, I always got my cycle pretty regularly and my periods would usually last for 2 days.
For several years, I will go through periods lasting about a week every so often where I experience extreme bloating and discomfort after eating. Even if its a small amount of food. Even just drinking water can set it off.
Recently, along the lines of the chronic nausea, I have started having periods of a couple of days at a time where I get waves of intense nausea that make me regurgitate or feel like vomiting (I rarely actually vomit). It is so intense that I have to pull over when I am driving. I have excessive salivation in the same way one does when they do vomit when sick, etc. These waves come on very suddenly every 2 or 3 hours and last 30-60 minutes at a time.
Occasionally, maybe once a week on average, I will be come very light headed or fuzzy headed. I will get very dizzy and have tunnel vision and I suppose one might say vertigo? My vision gets kind of choppy. It sort of feels like the kind of disorientation and dysfunction that one might experience immediately following a concussion.
Off and on for the last month or so, I have had a pretty severe earache in my left ear. I keep thinking that it will become a full blown infection or something but then it disappears for a couple of days then comes back for a couple of days so on and so forth.
Honestly, there are probably some additional issues that I cannot even think of right now. Does anyone have any thoughts on these symptoms, their relationships to each other, etc?
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miranda26811
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An additional oddity is I have, for years, had terrible night sweats very consistently. Often when i wake up, the area where I slept looks as if a full bucket of water was dumped on it. Sometimes it is so bad that my blankets soak through with sweat. I go to sleep freezing and wake up freezing but I still sweat so much, only when I am asleep. I rarely sweat due to heat or exercise. I run very cold and it takes a lot to get my body warmed up enough to where I actually sweat. I sometimes will have cold sweats when I am feeling ill.
sabins40385 miranda26811
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I am so sorry about ur health about the sweating go and check for tuberculosis because that is one sign of it..
l am sorry that is all l can tell u.
God be with.
miranda26811
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An additional oddity is I have, for years, had terrible night sweats very consistently. Often when i wake up, the area where I slept looks as if a full bucket of water was dumped on it. Sometimes it is so bad that my blankets soak through with sweat. I go to sleep freezing and wake up freezing but I still sweat so much, only when I am asleep. I rarely sweat due to heat or exercise. I run very cold and it takes a lot to get my body warmed up enough to where I actually sweat. I sometimes will have cold sweats when I am feeling ill.
AlexandriaGizmo miranda26811
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I'm presuming that you have not been diagnosed by your GP
Have you had blood tests, brain scans or anything else that could be checking for a reason.
Do you wear glasses and do you have your eyes tested regularly
You don't say how old you are
miranda26811
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I have been to several different doctors and always end up with a dead end. The tests that have been done have not found any explanation for any of my symptoms.
I have had blood work up 3 or 4 times a year for the last several years. It always comes back pretty much normal (I have had minor deficiency in alkaline phosphatase and creatinine but my doctors have never mentioned it).
I have had an ultrasound of my gallbladder several times and multiple upper endoscopies.
I have been tested for celiac and allergies.
I have been tested for every type of STD etc (including TB).
Every test has come back normal.
I do not wear glasses and have not been formally tested for vision issues in probably 10 years, however I have done the vision tests that some pharmacies have (usually connected with the blood pressure test) and it always comes back with normal, healthy vision.
I am 25.
Also, I forgot to mention shortness of breath, which I have always attributed to anxiety. It comes on at random and can last all day. I have struggled with this for about 8 years. I am not overweight although I have gained probably 30 lbs in the last year. It is not exercised induced or seasonal. I have never had any wheezing or any thing so I have kind of written off the possibility of asthma.