Hi everyone, i need some opinions, i can't take anymore. Im 23 from England and have been suffering with widespread pain for about a year or so now. Im not sure its fibro though, i think it might be some kind of neurological problem as some of my symptoms are strange. The only thing that makes me think it might not be neurological is that all my symptoms are intermittent. My doctor told me that if i had a brain/spinal problem, my symptoms wouldnt just come and go?? is this right?? I can sometimes go a week without any major symptoms, just a bit of lightheadedness. But im not so sure, as it feels like my symptoms are getting worse everyday :(
Heres my symptoms:
* Muscle/Bone pain all over my body but mainly arms/legs/hands/feet/thighs/buttocks/hips
* Dizziness, this is really bad, i get sudden vertigo, where everything around me moves.
* Lightheadedness all the time, off balance feeling
* Cloudy foggy vision (like i cant focus properly on anything) this is the worst symptom
* Sudden numbness and tingling/chills in arms/hands/left leg/left foot
* Sudden hearing loss/ringing in ears/fullness in ears and pressure in head every day
* Neck pain
* Flashes in vision and headaches now and again
* Things feel a bit different when i touch them sometimes, and my left hand feels weak alot of the time
* Sudden rushes of dizziness/adrenaline all the time for no reason
* Burning skin patches all over
* Feeling like my brain is swelling up inside, like a strong pressure, sometimes to one side, sometimes both sides of head.
However at this moment as im typing i feel fine, no symptoms at all, then in a minute i could do something and all of a sudden a symptom will kick in. Its never ending. Does this sound like a serious disease? I have had a ct scan of my brain and it was normal, bloodwork normal, heart echo scan normal, but i have had swollen lymph nodes in neck and groin for over a year now with no explanation, as the ultrasounds and biopsy have proved they arent Cancer and the blood tests for infection are clear! so i have no clue why they are swollen! which makes me think i have some spinal or neurological infection or disease that they havent found yet??
i think i need an mri of brain and spine and possibly a lumbar puncture to detect for lyme disease but no doctor will listen as they think its all in my head! and too "intermittent" and too "widespread" ...
right just then i had a sharp stabbing pain in my left temple area, thats travelling down my neck, my foot is tingling and my vision is a little bit 'off' , not blurred but hazey..
I have not got stress problems and i know this is not anything like anxiety as i am not anxious. I get anxious when the symptoms are bad but thats obviously going to happen! I just want answers, ive even thought about saving up for private mri scan and private lyme disease testing as no-one will listen to me, and everyone knows you cant tell a doctor anything!
Hopefully someone on here can help cos I literally cry about this everyday i cant take anymore, im 23! I never used to have any issues. I took a bit of cocaine one night cos and my symptoms started a couple of months after taking it, which worries me sick as i think i may have triggered or caused a brain disease of some kind. The doctors pretty much laughed at me for that! Please help :(