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sick for a month, no diagnosis

Hi, i am hoping someone here can shed some light on how i feel. I am 19 yr old, female 5'2, usually 102lbs but now 95lbs.  i have been told i have anxiety and hypoglycemia but not diabetic. I also had bells palsy when i was 8 yrs old.  My family medical history includes strokes, Heart failure, high blood pressure, and diabetes. My grandfather died of heart attack, two of my aunts have had heart attacks,  my great grandmother had many strokes. My older half-sister was born with heart disease and has had a few open heart surgeries.  My other half sister has been told that her heart flips. My mom has high blood pressure, high  cholesterol and diabetes. All of this is in my history but no doctors think i am at any risks.
When i started feeling down,  it felt like a virus.  I was weak and a little nauseous.  That lasted for a couple days and went away.  i started to lose my appetite and lost a couple pounds. Then i began having anxiety attacks almost every day for 5 days.  I started having stomach problems and went to see my doctor.  She gave me klonopin for my anxiety and said i have gastritis and prescribed zantac. The klonopin made me depressed so i stopped. I started having pain in my left jaw and at night i would start to feel numb on left side of my face.  I was afraid i was having a stroke and went to the hospital.  They told me is anxiety.  But the numbness is still there. i went again when it happened again and was told i may have a dental infection.  I was given  penicillin. i got more sick after taking it,  i just didn't feel right.  After day 3 i went to my primary doctor and told her and she said stop taking it because she saw no sign of infection. i told her how i had been feeling and she said it's possible i have shingles. She  gave me valtrex. After the first dose i had extreme back pain and fever.  She told me to  not take it anymore.  I felt lost. Everyone was just throwing drugs at me and then telling me to stop taking them.  
I started having a hard time breathing with no anxiety.  Trust me,  i know what the anxiety feels like.  But doctors seem to think i don't.  Everytime I've gone to the hospital,  they chock it up to anxiety. Then i had extreme pain and went again.  This time they told me i might have pleurisy or costochrondritis  (inflammation of the chest wall ).. the pain came and went and when it came it lessened after a couple days. but the trouble breathing remained.  It feels congested but i have no congestion and my cough is dry. The other night i started having extreme pressure and pain in my chest near my heart,  another trip to the hospital.  I am told i still have gastritis and also GERD. Apparently gerd feels like a heart attack.  I have had ekgs done many times and told my heart is fine and chest xrays show nothing wrong with my lungs.  now is been almost a month and this is how i feel.  Chest pressure, random chest pain in middle and under left breast. It feels like it's my heart.  trouble sleeping and when i am falling asleep,  i feel like my heart skips a beat or i lose a breath. Lying flat increases the pressure in my chest so I've been sleeping propped up. And I'm told when i sleep, I've started twitching. Getting out of bed makes the presure in my chest worse. breathing deeply doesn't hurt or help.  Also for a few days the left side of my chest felt tickly. Like my nerves were bothered.  I was told it was anxiety.  Again.  But it felt worse when i touched my skin. And my left breasr feels swollen especially in the center of my chest.  When i lie my hand lightly on my chest,  it becomes instantly harder to breathe. The tickly feeling is gone now but the pressure is still there.
Also, i keep losing weight.  I am desperately trying to gain it back,  i eat six times a day and even get woken up at night hungry. Yet, it seems that i lose  a pound every couple days.  It's scary and no one is taking me seriously.
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Both of the replies given above are excellent suggestions. First start with either an internist or an endocrinologist. Before your visit since you do have many things going on, write all the things down for the doctor to quickly view as you discuss things with him/her. With so much going on I find patients may forget something important to tell the doctor..if you have a list, its much easier to address each one.
Whenever  your not taken serious by your physician or any physician you seek help from, move on. Remember the doctor works for you, he is your guide to better health and healing. If your not getting satisfaction its time to bring in what we refer to as the BIG GUNS, a specialist. Hopefully you have access to a good research hospital also. Good luck in your endeavor to find an answer and the road to good health.
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I agree with theLightSeeker. You have a lot going on. The first thing to do is go and rule out things like hyperthyroidism, diabetes etc.

Forget your General Practitioner or PCP. I would hunt for a GREAT endocrinologist. This doctor focuses on hormones and organs like the thyroid and pancreas. Such a doctor will be able to rule many things in or out AND more importantly, will send you for blood and urine tests (to check for many conditions) BUT most importantly he (or she) will CORRECTLY interpret the results. The endocrinologist will interpret FAR FAR better than a PCP or General Practioner could.
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You need to rule out hyperthyroidism, candida, leaky gut syndrome, magnesium deficiency and low OR high gastric acid levels (GERD symptoms are identical with either low or high gastric acid levels and antiacid meds should not be taken until this is verified, otherwise your condition may worsen).

Insist on the above.
If you need a DIY testing/ approach, let me know, however my comments and suggestions are not intended to replace medical advice.

Best wishes.
Niko
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