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Please, Please...have your thyroid tested, and soon. Many of the mental symptoms you describe are textbook thyroid/adrenal deficiency symptoms, yet commonly overlooked by over-booked doctors. You don't have to wait for your doctor to suggest it - demand it for yourself. The test is inexpensive and the results could save your sanity. Nearly all insurance carriers will cover it.
There is a checklist on the website I'm listing below that will help you feel more confident about talking to your doctor. I have no connection with the site at all- I found it during research for my own symptoms- and I've blessed its Webmaster for the eye-opening info.
http://www.drrind.com/scorecardmatrix.asp
Hope it helps you as much as it did me. I wish you all the best.
Hi, What kind of symptoms are you having?
I new to this forum and i came here looking to see if anyone was going what im going through...and you are pretty close
When you say "Your thoughts are jumbled" could you be specific?
Magnesium deficiency can cause depression, unusual levels anxiety, imsomnia, heart palpitations, and quite a few neurological symptoms. It is not a nutritional problem though. The root cause starts as anxiety, which your body tries to calm with magnesium, but if the anxiety continues long enough, you lose so much magnesium you start having neurological problems.
Go to the Neurology forum, look for the Magnesium Defficient (sp) thread. I have posted related web articles there that outline the symptoms and the relationship with anxiety.
Hope this helps.
Your right. your doc should send u to a neurologist (or at least for an MRI or CAT scan. If he doesn't then I too would head for the ER. Mental ailments such as anxiety and/or depression should be considered only after all physical ailments are ruled out.
I know how you feel about being swept under the rug. I have problems w/ my heart where it beats so fast some days and feels like it's going to beat right out of my chest and my doc tells me it's anxiety. anxiety is not causing my symptoms. my symptoms are causing anxiety. i was given xanax and sent home (which i am now hooked on.)
hope u feel better.
regards,
Pan
I too have the same things happening to me. I don't know what is happening to me. I have never had anything bad happen to me to cause these problems.
Did you, by chance, have anything traumatic happen (emotionally or physically) when you were 17? Is there anything extremely stressful or traumatic going on currently? What are the conections between the times in your life when these symptoms reoccured?
If your doctor will not refer you to a neurologist, then go to the ER to put your mind at ease. They HAVE to treat you there, regardless if you've had a referal or what your health insurance is. They will give you a full examination, and more than likely if you describe your physical symptoms they will call in a neurologist.
Sorry but its not depression or anxiety. If you have never experienced your brain not working correctly ,you will never know what its like.I may have anxiety or depression as a responce to whats going on with me.This is a physical problem with my brain that I cant control,not emotional problems.Imagine not being able to think correctly in your head, and also not being able to remember things you just did or were thinking. This alone will cause anybody to have anxiety.I would rather have cancer anyday of the week. If there is a "magic" pill out there for me then I would gladly take it.I only have anxiety and am depressed because im pissed at the defective brain that I was born with.Doctors need to quit trying to just treat symptoms caused by what really wrong with someone. I think anybody with problems with thier brain (im not talking about depressed people)should get a whole run down of tests by a neurologist, just to rule everthing else that might be wrong. After that is all clear, then put them on medication. But most insurance companies wont do this because of cost, so throw me some pills and sweep me under the rug. This is why I believe suicide rates are so high.There is no hope!
Your symptoms were headache, abnormal sensation in the head and neck, visual problems, hearing disturbance and poor concentration. Your condition affected your work and social life. It ran a relapsing course and responded to some extent to antidepressant. The symptoms are rather vague and do not fit into any DSM IV criteria for a diagnosis. But by exclusion, its sound like masked depression, the diagnosis made by your doctor. There is always a risk making a definitive diagnosis online, as an interview and observation for signs cannot be done to their satisfaction. The exact antidepressant/s, their dosage/s, duration of administration, their effectiveness, and the duration of complete remission are not clear. The best way out is to consult a psychiatrist and psychotherapist for your condition. You can ask them for their diagnosis even if they were reluctant to offer you a definite diagnosis as the symptoms were so vague. At least you know there is no exact diagnosis for your condition. You are entitled to a second opinion too.
You should go to a psychiatrist who can give you a full examination and diagnosis and not just give you pills. It sound to me like a variation of panic anxiety, not something in the te xtbooks but something you see clinically quite often. Anxiety can cause these symptoms, and if that ends up to be the diagnosis after a more careful review and examination, the anxiolytic medications will be more useful than antidepressants. For the short term, you might ask your doctor for some Xanax to see if you get some immediate help.