Difficulty Breathing w/ Crohn's

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Hello, I have a question.  I'm new here, I'm a 26 year old male and I was recently diagnosed with Crohn's.  I do NOT have diarrhea, blood in my stool, etc but I DO have fatigue, weakness, I think I have some sort of arthritis (joints feel weak), but my MAIN question is something to do with the nervous system.  ALL of this happened suddenly one night when I took a laxative for constipation I had back in October.  The entire night I was in the restroom and I felt this weird pressure/tingling/weakness on the left side of my body, particularly my left head/temple.  Ever since, I've been weak, I've had tingling and stiff sensations in my head, neck, and (sometimes) partial facial paralysis at times (it comes and goes) and it's as if there is something stuck in the left back of my head/temple/ear area.  My neck is stiff, it's difficult to concentrate, memory is getting foggy, my left arm gets weird pressure sensations, my underarm gets this weird pinching sensation, I have slow breathing out of my left nostril (and I personally believe my left lung FEELS weak, though the CAT scan said differently).

I've been through the "oh, you have stress/anxiety, here's a Zoloft" treatment MANY times and trust me, it ain't just stress.  As a matter of fact, I can't even FEEL stress or any sort of emotion.  I don't have the energy to feel "angry" or "happy" or whatever, just blah.  Zoloft doesn't work and it definately isn't helping my pain.  The thing is, all these weird symptoms, I'm NEVER feeling "hurt" (if anything, numbness) except for sometimes sharp pains in my left chest/breast area.  I've had an MRI/MRA, CAT scan of brain, chest, and abs, X-ray, colonscopy, endoscopy, etc and all turned out fine except for my colonoscopy which showed I have Crohn's.  I had a blood test and my thyroid is "fine" so they ruled that out along with TIA, diabetes, etc.  What could all these sensations be?  Are they nervous system related?

I initially thought my breathing issues came with sinitus or something but I had an MRI, I'm sure they would've found something, right?  I have asthma/allergies but strangely, both seem to have "disappeared" as my breathing just feels weak.  Normally, when you "breathe in," you can feel the sensation in your chest but I can't feel it in my left side of my chest anymore.  Thus, I was scared my left lung wasn't working or I had PE but I asked a friend and said that if I had PE, I'd be in pain.  I just want to breathe again (all I do is deeply breath OR short breaths).  I'm scared something is blocked in my left side or something.  How come I'm (seemingly) breathing slowly, particularly on my left side?!?

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