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Sudden Muscle weakness, Joint cracking and popping?

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jacob86424
jacob86424

My age is 29, from the last 4-5 months I have been experiencing strange symptoms. All my joints are cracking, muscles are weakening day by day. It appears that the Flesh beneath skin is vanishing. Sometimes I feel mild pain while moving my joints. Mild nausea, previously I had bowel movement once in 3 days now it is on daily basis, it seems like the body is not able to properly absorb nutrients. I can see losse skin on my hands, arm pits etc. The strangest thing is that if I put flashlight under my hand then I can clearly see the veins, why the flesh had become transparent? Hair loss from all over body, especially from the scalp. 2 Months ago I gone through a number of tests and the only thing came up was Vitamin D deficiency (23 ng/ml). Montly dose of 200,000 IU was prescribed. Itchining on skin, it gets red too quickly. What all of these symptoms may meanm not that I do smoke about 10 Cigrates a day and slo take Tea 2 times a day. Furthermore I was not tested for Kidney and Thyoroid. Could there be any problem with these two?

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  • jackie00198
    jackie00198 jacob86424

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    Have you been diagnosed with ME/CFS? If so, thyroid is a really big issue, and you should get a complete thyroid panel done. I don't know about kidney. Ten cigarettes a day, of course, is not a good thing. But you knew that. Also, most tea has caffeine, which is another thing to avoid if you have this illness.

     

    • jacob86424
      jacob86424 jackie00198

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      No I haven't been tested for this. One thing I do remember is that it all started after one month of when I was cured of FLU. During that time I had cough, green mucus in throat/chest, but I was cured from that completely. But after one month I started loosing muscles.
    • jackie00198
      jackie00198 jacob86424

      Posted

      Sudden onselt of ME/CFS with the flu is very common. But you don't mention if you have the key symptoms for this illness, which are extreme fatigue, postexertional fatigue, sleep problems, orthostatic intolerance. Other symptoms include those you describe, like weak muscles, muscle and joint pain, dizziness, nausea. There is no test for ME/CFS. It's a diagnosis of exclusion, so you should have a complete blood panel done  (maybe you've had this already). If nothing comes up, you should see an ME/CFS specialist, preferably an infectious disease doctor. And take it easy. Don't push yourself, or  (if it is ME/CFS), you can greatly worsen your condition.
  • wknight
    wknight jacob86424

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    Putting a torch underneath the skin and seeing the veins is normal, I can do that.  I sometimes get itchy skin and it goes red quickly never worked out what causes it. Pain in joints is not uncommon if you have arthiritis setting in and it can start at any age. Why do you think the flesh is disappearing, I suspect not. Daliy bowel movements is good, I would worry if you only then once every 3 days as that doesn't sound good. google vit d deficiency and some of your problems sounds like it could be related.

    I would be more worried about what smoking 10 cigs a day is doing to you. Go see your dr and discuss your concerns.

  • mhah27962
    mhah27962 jacob86424

    Posted

    Hi, I just read your post and found it very interesting because we have the same symptoms all my family. Are you from the UK? And how are you now?....do you have spots on your face? If you could get back to me that would be great

    • lorraine89879
      lorraine89879 sean75631

      Posted

      Sean I think on saw you post about muscle twitches too on another question. Any luck?
  • angela_2202
    angela_2202 jacob86424

    Posted

    How did you resolve this i have the same symptoms and i am scared please respond
  • mhah27962
    mhah27962 jacob86424

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    Hiya just wanted to let you know that I think there is is some kind of mite on our skin and other symptoms are from weakness mainly vitamin d and calcium..... Most people have got it it is spreading and no seems to take notice
    • jane66692
      jane66692 mhah27962

      Posted

      Hello there,

      I feel like there is something inside me and it's spreading, you mentioned mite, can you please explain what kind of mite ?

      Thanks

    • mhah27962
      mhah27962 jane66692

      Posted

      Hi

      It's the scabies mites because body is always fighting them thats why we're getting inflammation in joint

    • nindhi
      nindhi mhah27962

      Posted

      Was it scabbies? Did you get it treated. Is it working for you?
  • dua2016
    dua2016 jacob86424

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    I have the symptoms but I don't have weakness in my muscles. Since January my muscles in my chest have gone down with sternum pain. It hurts almost all the time at different degrees of pain everyday. I'm cycling between one day pain in my chest and my arms a little, and another day a lot of pain in my arms and my chest a little. The joints in my hands are starting to hurt also lately. I am a carpenter. When I'm working it seems much better. I don't notice it and I do not feel weak. I've lost about 15lbs since the start of the year, dropped one shirt size, and 3 inches off my waist. My blood pressure seems better than it's ever been and my LDL is in the low range now. My CH50 was high and my doctor refferred me to a rheumatologist. He ordered more blood tests and they came back normal and wrote me off without a diagnosis. My thyroid and urine tests came back normal. I don't have any other issues except this sore muscle pain joint popping thing and weight loss. I have noticed on a "good day" my muscles feel like they're pumped like when I used to lift weights. They will feel like that all day and look like I just got done lifting for that entire day. But the next day these symptoms come back. I have an MRI coming up for my chest to make sure it's not a serious underlying condition. As far as my diet, I've cut the sugar out (about two years now) with foods that hardly contain it. No sucralose, aspartame, and stevia. I'm allergic to ragweed. Since I've taken out the stevia (protein powders) my headaches and "full feeling" in my head have gone away. Hope more people will post so we can try and figure this out...thanks!

     

    • jeremy04366
      jeremy04366 dua2016

      Posted

      I have the same thing. When my chest is in pain, the muscles go down and then it changes to arms. I have had MRI , emg, all blood work imaginable and nothing shows up. This seems to be a muscle inflammation process going on but this isn't typical of me/CFS that I know. My muscles go down where ever the pain is.

    • damien86473
      damien86473 dua2016

      Posted

      i also have this body pump and body ache thing , did you ever get anything to resolve or have any diagnosis?

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