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Light headed/dizzy, shaking, weak, numb/tingling on fingers and toes, flushed

Two weeks ago around 6pm I had an episode of multiple symptoms that precipitated very quickly, within about three minutes, without warning.  These included feeling very weak, shaking all over, light headed/dizzy,numbness/tingling on fingertips and toes, slight shortness of breath and chill.  I felt like passing out, flushed.  I figured it was from not eating so I grabbed a burger and it seemed to alleviate the problems.  Well, it happened again around the same time of day a few days later. But this time, eating didn't help as much.  Eventually the symptoms went away.  My colleagues observed that I looked very pale.  Since then, I have been experiencing episodes every day in the evening.  I keep a pile of energy bars in the office and gulp one down at the very first hint of weakness, shaking, which seems to go away in about ten minutes.  If I don't, the symptoms quickly intensify until I am so shaky and weak that I can't remain in a sitting position.
I've had blood/urine test and was told all is ok.  
Here's the curious part.   Last two days, instead of gulping down an energy bar, I've been taking Vitamin B-12 that dissolves under the tongue.  This seems to help alleviate the symptoms as well as the energy bar.
Any thoughts or guesses on this will be gratefully appreciated.
Thank you
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featherwind, i am stunned reading your post. i came to this site because i have some symptoms that are, for a change, likely physical in origin, not emotional. i scrolled down instead of just moving on to another site, and saw what you wrote. i think i might know something about what you have suffered with. i can see a picture that looks so familiar! much like what i have dealt with my whole life. maybe i'm wrong but maybe i'm right. i am deeply hoping you will read this. ...i feel a need to contact you to see if i can shed light on these problems....
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featherwind, i am stunned reading your post. i came to this site because i have some symptoms that are, for a change, likely physical in origin, not emotional. i scrolled down instead of just moving on to another site, and saw what you wrote. i think i might know something about what you have suffered with. i can see a picture that looks so familiar! much like what i have dealth with my whole life. maybe i'm wrong but maybe i'm right. i am deeply hoping you will read this. ...i feel a need to contact you to see if i can shed light on these problems....
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I use to have problems similar to everyone on here and still do sometimes. I just wanted to update everyone on what I have found it to be. I use to be really sick all the time. Weakness in my body, dizziness, light headed, feeling as if something was really wrong with me and all the while, the doctors done EVERY test that you can think of and still nothing. I am considered a healthy 34 year old. I started doing some research on my own, me being a Web Master and all, and came up with a few different things. Then, I was checked for all those different things and still nothing. I, then, ended up in the hospital while being pale for a week straight with no relief. Now, most of the problems went away when I had started eating BEEF for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Yes, that is what I said. See, most people who are diagnosed with ANEMIA automatically think IRON but IRON DEFICIENCIES usually occur with blood loss. I use to have a stomach ulcer and cured that with rice and chicken meals for about 4 or 5 months. I also have VERTIGO, LOW BLOOD SUGAR, among other things wrong with me but I kept those under control. For the longest time, I thought the shortness of breath was either from something I was allergic to since I have many food allergies or from my Asthma. While keeping those under control, I was still have symptoms. I, now, have not been weak while I have been eating the BEEF. I do get dizzy, short of breath, or just feel like crap but it is not often and it goes away after a few seconds. Try it and see if it helps. It is also, maybe, a little bit of anxiety since I get butterflies in my stomach for no reason also. Vitamin B12 is the type of anemia, mainly, for vegans, people with food allergies, and just by not eating right. I eat two small beef patties, nothing else unless its a little bit of corn noodles, four times a day. I just wanted to let everyone know.
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call me crazy but why in the last two years is everyone experiencing something similar across this entire country and why so many doctors cant find whats wrong or confirm it in a test?
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either MS or a bad virus that takes years to go away
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sounds like MS but who knows really ive felt like fibromyalgia ms cancer tumor meningitis for two years almost now and ive seemed to trade a debilitating amt of symptoms to a less debilitating amt of symptoms it makes no sense but im still trying to fight it by eating healthy drinking lots of water and medicinal teas along with homeopathic remedies and vitamin supplements because i have no diagnosis yet and im on my way to a thyroid doctor next already seen a neurologist but she barely even listened to me then prescribed **** right away for migraines which is a seizure med but i dont have migraines i told her its more like a numbing pressure on my skull that comes n goes ...alot less often now but needless to say i will not be taking those pills or covering up my symptoms becaus emy body is odviously tellingme something n i should listen if they wont
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