Okay, so...I have had some strange, unexplained symptoms since November (it's almost April) and I am really at my ends of trying to deal with these problems will trying to juggle college and work and just wanting to be my old "normal" 20 year old self.
Muscle aches
Sporatic Joint pain - mostly all joints - most severe in knees
SEVERE fatigue
Aches/feeling of uncomfort all over
Muscle twitching (have had my whole life, but I notice more now)
Sick a lot - i.e. laringytis, UTI, bad cold, gastroenteritis (bad enough to put me in the hospital) ---> sick constantly, back to back illnesses
dry eyes
dry mouth
My ANA was tested in November--was negative (along with rheumatoid factor and other autoimmune things), in December it was 1:640 homogeneous, in February it was negative again. Nobody in my family has an autoimmune disorder. The only thing in my family (other than cancer and type 2 diabetes) is that one of my cousins had ALS (a form of muscular dystrophy) and one of my cousins has hypogammaglobulinemia (an immuno-deficiency disease.) I am taking a NSAID for the joint pain. But, I feel sick all the time. I am constantly sick....and when I'm not sick (like with a cold or UTI) i just feel horrible. I'm severly fatigued and the joint pain is at times not bearable.
Does anybody have any possible ideas?! I can't continue to deal with this while in college. It's too much, I just want answers!!