Well, How to even begin here? It's really difficult to start, because there's so much to type. I guess I'll start at the beginning!!
Well, for starters I'm 23 female, yes overweight. No known medical problems until July of 2007. I basically had my Period for about 78 days straight, went to the OBGYN, she put me on Provera to help stop the period. When I was put on provera, it DID work for stopping the period but started giving me INCREDIBLY horrible heart palpitations. I put up with it for a few days, until I realized that it was happening more & more. I had just gotten Medical Insurance for the first time in 5 years, so I went to a family practice that I'd never been to before. The doctor I used to see (this was back when I was in High School) has actually closed/moved/something. Well anyway, I went to see my new doctor, who was actually a Physicians Assistant. He did an EKG, 24 hr Holter Monitor, Heart Ultrasound, Complete blood work up (tested for so many things I didn't know what to think lol). He also sent me to a separate lab to do a 5 hour blood glucose test. I did that test which showed that I was hypoglycemic. They took my blood before I drank the nasty stuff, and it was normal, the 1st through 3rd blood samples after I drank it were normal, the 4th was slightly elevated & the 5th was WAY too low. Okay, so after all this I get called back to my doc about 3 days later to come in for all the results. He did catch some palps on the holter, but said they were pretty normal. Ekg was normal. Heart ultrasound normal. Blood work wasn't though. I had an abnormal THS level which was a 6.4 I think, liver something was slightly elevated, cholesterol was slightly elevated but has since returned to normal, Kidney function was normal, everything else on there was normal. So He set me up with an appt. to see an endocrinologist. I went to the Endo a few weeks later, put me on Synthroid & also diagnosed me w/ PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) because I had all the symptoms of it, however, he didn't know if I actually had cysts on my ovaries. Also told me the results to my blood glucose test were pretty typical of being pre-diabetic. Also, let me tell you all through the years I have constantly have small nerve symtpoms like someone is stabbing me with a needle in a random spot on my body. This has been about the past 7 years or so. Anyway, I had started to get more random 'shocking' pains in my upper torso. Just randomly placed, no specific order and weren't really ever in the same spot. I also developed some type of nerve damage in my right hand/arm. Along the outside of my arm, from my elbow down to my pinkie & ring finger. I had noticed it at night, but just figured it was the way I was sleeping. Then it started to happen during the day. Well, now it's pretty constant, just has times where it's less obvious & times where it's pretty awful. After a weekend in houston @ my aunts house & having many of these shooting pains in my upper torso & one horrible pain that was in my side, I went back to the doc. He actually told me that I had a kidney infection (which I actually doubt was true, but at the time I was a little medically dumb lol) and put me on 5 days of antibiotics. Well, I had never had a kidney infection, & this scared me because my grandmother died of kidney failure. So i started going online, researching pretty much everything about your kidneys. Soon I started to become VERY paranoid that I was going to die of some strange disease because the shooting pains continued (still are continuing), & I thought my Kidneys were going to fail, the heart palps continued & I thought I was having a heart attack, I soon started having panic attacks. Well, I went to the ER for one of the panic attacks & got told I had Bronchitis. After that, I started thinking I had chronic bronchitis & was damaging my lungs. Well, again the shooting pains continued, once a day or so. During all this, I guess in about november, I started to get shooting pains in my eyes. Those scared me, of course, because I was afraid I was having a stroke. I went to my doc for that, he told me I had a lot of fluid in my ears & head & that I could be having some sort of migraine also. So he put me on another antibiotic to get rid of the infection in my ears, & also gave me darvacets for pain. After all this, the shooting pains in my head/eyes, shooting pains in my torso, kidney infection (two times by then), hypothyroid, PCOS, bronchitis, ear infections, blah blah, I had multiple panic attacks & finally told my doctor. He put me on Buspar. I kept thinking there is SOME reason for these shooting pains, there is something wrong with me. No matter how calm I was, the pains continued. About two weeks ago I got influenza. After that I had some pretty extreme bouts of a high heart rate. SO bad I couldn't sleep. After that, I started to get this swelling & tight pain in my right torso (upper). I went to the doc again (new doctor, old one went to Utah, i'm in tx) she said she thought it was my Gallbladder & did a CT on me. CT showed nothing, she is supposed to be doing a Hida Scan tomorrow. Well, after that CT she told me to go home, don't eat anything heavy, & go to the ER if something unbearable happens. So Friday night I went to the ER because the pain was pretty much from my upper torso down into the top of my right thigh. The ER doctors did a CT with contrast & boy did it start then. The stabbing pains started, EXTREMELY horrible heart palpitations, I waited thinking it was just a weird reaction to the dye. Well, after that I was ok for a while. Came home after being told it was an ovarian cyst that had ruptured PLUS it was probably my gallbladder & it just wasn't showing any blockages because the stones weren't blocking anything?? So I came home thinking allright... well yesterday I was sitting on my couch, doing nothing, resting because I'm thinking I just need to chill till we get this figured out. Well I'm watching tv all the sudden I get this build up of pain in my left chest, total lasted about 4 seconds. Was absolutely, hands down the most excruciating pain I've ever felt. It wasn't near my heart (believe me, I have heart palpitations constantly & I know when my heart is doing something). It was actually (i believe) my left lung? I have had the same pain one time before but I was in the middle of um... well.. sex & thought I just pushed myself a little too hard. So ever since I had that pain I have been having some horrible shooting pains, all upper torso/chest. I have been coughing since then, but it hasn't been this horrible cough. I just don't know what to make of all this. I'm so sorry this post is so long, but I really need help. I have even gotten to the point where I have written down pretty much all my thoughts in a journal & basically said my 'goodbyes' to everyone because I honestly think I'm gonna die. Can anyone give me a clue as to what all could be causing this? Could I maybe have diabetes & the test just have been wrong? My anxiety has been SO severe I just am so stressed & need some help/answers/encouragement/SOMETHING. Thanks for reading this, I know it's long. :) GBY all.