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new to forum,please tell me what you think..SCARED
by fallingapart33, May 20, 2007 12:00AM
well,about 5 yrs ago i started having a weard cramp like pain just below mt ribline,dead center and it extended into my back.
like a cramp in my diaphram!,,well after a few seconds,or couple minutes it would go away.
this has went on for years,and the doctors do not seem too worried about it.
i worry alot about things i know nothing about,and in the past 3 yrs i have lost my father and became a dad of two crazy little girls that can realy stress me out!
well my new symptoms that have manafested are as follows.
i started getting lightheaded all the time,,my hands fall asleep when im sleeping,and just recently i have noticed weard tingly feelings all over from my feet to my stomach,to my am=rms,,just all over.
they are not like pins and needles that stay constant,,they feel like cold tingly feelings like one one my toe,then one on my elbow,and so one exct.
this realy freaks me out and i dont know what to think.
when i told my doc about the dizzyness,and feeling something was not right with my weard stomach pain,,and that i didnt sleep worth a **** anymore,,he said i had GAD and gave me LEXAPRO,,well after a month,and no difference,i winged myself off,and stopped wasting my time at the doctors office
(i also demanded full blood work,and i was given a ekg,and ct scam on my head )
everything was negetive,anly thing was my "good" cholestoral was a little low,blood sugar was a little high...thats it,,he told me to watch what i ate,and work out a little more.
well,the lightheadedness has kinda gotten better,my hands dont fall asleep quite as much as they use to when i sleep,,,but the weard tingly feelings all over realy freak me out (there present all day every day for past 2 months),i know i need to go have this checked too,but i just HATE going to any doctors/hospitals.
please let me know any openions you guys have on this,or if my symptoms ring a bell to anyone elce,,thanks much,,,mt in indiana
like a cramp in my diaphram!,,well after a few seconds,or couple minutes it would go away.
this has went on for years,and the doctors do not seem too worried about it.
i worry alot about things i know nothing about,and in the past 3 yrs i have lost my father and became a dad of two crazy little girls that can realy stress me out!
well my new symptoms that have manafested are as follows.
i started getting lightheaded all the time,,my hands fall asleep when im sleeping,and just recently i have noticed weard tingly feelings all over from my feet to my stomach,to my am=rms,,just all over.
they are not like pins and needles that stay constant,,they feel like cold tingly feelings like one one my toe,then one on my elbow,and so one exct.
this realy freaks me out and i dont know what to think.
when i told my doc about the dizzyness,and feeling something was not right with my weard stomach pain,,and that i didnt sleep worth a **** anymore,,he said i had GAD and gave me LEXAPRO,,well after a month,and no difference,i winged myself off,and stopped wasting my time at the doctors office
(i also demanded full blood work,and i was given a ekg,and ct scam on my head )
everything was negetive,anly thing was my "good" cholestoral was a little low,blood sugar was a little high...thats it,,he told me to watch what i ate,and work out a little more.
well,the lightheadedness has kinda gotten better,my hands dont fall asleep quite as much as they use to when i sleep,,,but the weard tingly feelings all over realy freak me out (there present all day every day for past 2 months),i know i need to go have this checked too,but i just HATE going to any doctors/hospitals.
please let me know any openions you guys have on this,or if my symptoms ring a bell to anyone elce,,thanks much,,,mt in indiana
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If you have your Gall Blader checked out the doc may give you a drug called "Urso." The claim is this drug may reverse your gall blader to like new....didn't work for me. Might be worth checking out. Hope this helps.
ya,i was thinking about gullbladder too,but wasnt sure,it seems like i can somewhat control it,like if im sitting and i get the pain,i can usualy get it to calm down if i stand up and walk around a little.,and i had that bad pain under my right shoulder where they say it tends to manafest itself with gullbladder problems...also drinking seems to agravate it.
as fas as the lightheadedness,stuff like that,,thats also what the doc said,but i have not had the pins and needles feelings checked out,,i was scared and everything i read about them pointed to samething realy bad like ms or diabetes!!!
i was screened for diabetes,that was negetive,but i was also scared of lymes disease,as i live around lots of woods,and about 2/3 years ago i did not see a tick i got bit by,but i got a weard circle rash on my thigh that now i see looked just like a "bulls eye " rash associated with lymes disease.
i didnt even know it was big in indiana,but here in n.,w, indiana,it is worse then anywhere in our state!
all i have to say is this and im sure most of you would agree,,,
IF IT IS NOT ONE THING,ITS ANOTHER!
well,thanks again,and i appreciate reading your comments,thanks, fallingapart33
Hang in there!
Sounds like you're going to live so quit worrying. I don't say that lightly because I know it's easy to worry about these things.
The lyme disease could be there so you might want to check with someone at an infectious disease place. Regular doc's don't know much about it which is surprising.
Otherwise, you should seriously look at your diet and exercise. I would recommend that you think about cutting 90% of sugar out of your diet if you haven't already and also get on some aerobic exercise like with a elliptical machine. Get a physical first.