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1645424 tn?1301091011

Desperate for help!

For 6years i have been having these symptoms, every 3weeks it starts with a rash round my neck and sometimes my face, this will last for about 3days, then i start to feel itchy all over! and a feeling of flu like symptoms! i feel dizzy,and the tips of my fingers go numb! then my chest starts to feel tight after a week of this i get a chronic pain in my breathing tube and its hard to breath past this pain. this will last for a week to 2weeks.
As well as this i have-chronic daily Migraine attacks! and all my bones feel like ice one minute and burning the next, my doctor has said ..Why don't you just get used to it????  and just today she told me -i am wasting everyone's time!!!!! and there is nothing more she can do for me.
If anyone out there recognises these symptoms please please let me no?  i feel so alone with this and i have no quality of life just now,  and don't no were to turn.
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763858 tn?1234811737
Hey Selma...anyway you can change Docs?? That's the FIRST thing I would have done!  However, I know how you feel.  I started having "continual" migraines about 10 yrs ago..when my PCP kept blowing me off to stress also.  Then...after an X-Ray...he sent me to an ENT...which finally ended up with nasal surgery....which I have YET to heal from.  My symptoms only got much worse!  

Four years ago...I had a spell of numerous (mostly neurological) symptoms which just bombarded me...out of nowhere!  I am STILL searching for answers...as my Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia just doesn't seem to answer many of my symptoms.  I've been tested for MS, Lupus, SjS, Lyme's, Wegener's, etc...ALL to no avail!  One thing I have continually requested is a Spinal Tap...which has never happened.  I've also requested that my C-Spine be repeated...due to an "artifactual spot" on my C-Spine...hasn't happened yet either!  So...I know your frustration very well! Hang in there...althought it's tough!  You are NOT the only one in "limboland!"  There are numerous of us who are!  I continue to here reports from others who, after many years, FINALLY get their diagnosis!  We will too...SOMEDAY!  {{HUGS}}  ;)
~tj
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1645424 tn?1301091011
Thanks so much for ur kind msg!!!  i am feeling rather down with the lack of support from my GP  but i wont give up!  stay well x
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620923 tn?1452915648
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  Well u r doing the right thing in pushing for tests...I had Lupus, lymes, MS and others.....the trouble  breathing is not a good thing at all....

Many of us, myself included were dx or told our issues were stress, anxiety etc....but don't let that get u down, u know ur body...keep pushing for more tests and answers.

  "selma"
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1645424 tn?1301091011
Hi, Thanks for the msg!  i have had NO tests at all as my doctor puts all my symptoms down to "stress",i have asked for a Lupus test! so that's what i am waiting for.Each attack gets worse and the last one i had to go to hospital! as i couldn't breath.
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620923 tn?1452915648
COMMUNITY LEADER

  Hi and welcome to the Chiari forum.

Many of ur symptoms are similar to chiari and syringomyelia, but they r also similar to many other conditions too!
U need testing to get a dx to know for sure what is going on.

Have u had a brain MRI?...cervical spine MRI?

  "selma"
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