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Any advise or help for prolonged health problem?
Jessie63110 posted:
I am in need of some advise:r old fe I am a 23 female and i have been having health problems since 2007. It start out with simple joint pain and now i it takes everything to keep me going some days. My symptoms now includes painful headaches to the point it to think, read, or hear, shortness of breath, chest pains, side pains, the feeling of something in my throat, dizziness, rapid heat beat and there are a few others things. Well, the problem is that most of symptoms only last sometime a few minutes to a half a hour for the most part (but do happen periodically threw the day) and by time i can see a doctor usually not having any symptoms. I have been to three doctors in the last few years and they have ran many tests and once they have not found something they just tell me it in my head or that i want drugs or that my family is making me think i am sick ( i have a lot of health problems in family so i have asked to be test for a few of the diseases) and then tell me that there going to write in i my file that i am making things up. Well i have argued and told them that i believe my symptoms are connects (they say they are not) and i am not looking for meds (i do not like taking meds) and reason why i am coming back it because i am to young to have think about can i make it threw the day with out passing out or avoiding people because the noise hurt my head. Anyway, I am just at lost as what do: should i keep seeking and spending money on the same answers or so i just give up and live with it? Has anyone had to deal with this where there just no answers. What should i do?
2 Replies |Watch This Discussion | Report This| Share this:Any advise or help for prolonged health problem?I am in need of some advise:r old fe I am a 23 female and i have been having health problems since 2007. It start out with simple joint pain and now i it takes everything to keep me going some days. My symptoms now includes painful headaches to the point it to think, read, or hear, shortness of breath, chest pains, side pains, the feeling of something in my throat, dizziness, rapid heat beat and there are a few others things. Well, the problem is that most of symptoms only last sometime a few minutes to a half a hour for the most part (but do happen periodically threw the day) and by time i can see a doctor usually not having any symptoms. I have been to three doctors in the last few years and they have ran many tests and once they have not found something they just tell me it in my head or that i want drugs or that my family is making me think i am sick ( i have a lot of health problems in family so i have asked to be test for a few of the diseases) and then tell me that there going to write in i my file that i am making things up. Well i have argued and told them that i believe my symptoms are connects (they say they are not) and i am not looking for meds (i do not like taking meds) and reason why i am coming back it because i am to young to have think about can i make it threw the day with out passing out or avoiding people because the noise hurt my head. Anyway, I am just at lost as what do: should i keep seeking and spending money on the same answers or so i just give up and live with it? Has anyone had to deal with this where there just no answers. What should i do?
Torcal responded:
I'm not a medical person and cannot give you any specific advice. However, I have something somewhat similar that cannot be diagnosed but it is very real. Occasionally I will just collapse and lay on the floor unable to talk and with all my voluntary muscles paralyzed. I remain conscious, can see, breathe and remember. But I later pass out and sleep for a few hours. The last two times it happened late at night at the top of the stairs and I recall rolling down twelve steps without the ability to reach out my arm to grab onto the stair rail. It's also happened while just walking across a room in the middle of the day.
After one of these occasions I was hospitalized for two days i an attempt to diagnose what was wrong. But after the scans and all the other tests nothing could be found.
After a lot of web surfing I came across a condition known as "transient ishemic attack". Google it and see if it fits. It is basically a stoke cause by a rapidly dissipating blood clot which goes away before it can be detected. They cause a number of stroke-like symptoms depending on where it is but there is no brain damage and the sympttoms usually subside within one or two hours or less.
It happened again last week and my doctor sent me in for an MRI of my Carotid arteries and an Echocardiogram of my heart. I e-mailed him asking about transient ishemic attack but have yet to hear back.
Good luck.
After one of these occasions I was hospitalized for two days i an attempt to diagnose what was wrong. But after the scans and all the other tests nothing could be found.
After a lot of web surfing I came across a condition known as "transient ishemic attack". Google it and see if it fits. It is basically a stoke cause by a rapidly dissipating blood clot which goes away before it can be detected. They cause a number of stroke-like symptoms depending on where it is but there is no brain damage and the sympttoms usually subside within one or two hours or less.
It happened again last week and my doctor sent me in for an MRI of my Carotid arteries and an Echocardiogram of my heart. I e-mailed him asking about transient ishemic attack but have yet to hear back.
Good luck.
Report This| Share this:Any advise or help for prolonged health problem?I'm not a medical person and cannot give you any specific advice. However, I have something somewhat similar that cannot be diagnosed but it is very real. Occasionally I will just collapse and lay on the floor unable to talk and with all my voluntary muscles paralyzed. I remain conscious, can see, breathe and remember. But I later pass out and sleep for a few hours. The last two times it happened late at night at the top of the stairs and I recall rolling down twelve steps without the ability to reach out my arm to grab onto the stair rail. It's also happened while just walking across a room in the middle of the day.<br /> <br />After one of these occasions I was hospitalized for two days i an attempt to diagnose what was wrong. But after the scans and all the other tests nothing could be found.<br /> <br />After a lot of web surfing I came across a condition known as "transient ishemic attack". Google it and see if it fits. It is basically a stoke cause by a rapidly dissipating blood clot which goes away before it can be detected. They cause a number of stroke-like symptoms depending on where it is but there is no brain damage and the sympttoms usually subside within one or two hours or less.<br /> <br />It happened again last week and my doctor sent me in for an MRI of my Carotid arteries and an Echocardiogram of my heart. I e-mailed him asking about transient ishemic attack but have yet to hear back.<br /> <br />Good luck.
susiemargaret replied to Torcal's response:
hello, J and T --
webMD info on transient ischemic attack (TIA) is at http://www.webmd.com/stroke/tc/transient-ischemic-attack-tia-topic-overview . i didn't get the impression that J's problems were characterized by passing out, but J should take a look at this description, because it is very possible that i misunderstood her post. i am not a medical person, so this is just one layperson's view.
J, have you seen a neurologist?
J, let me suggest that you start keeping a diary of what symptoms you experience, date, time of day, anything significant that happened around that time, etc. doing this might show some patterns to either you or a dr.
T, your experiences sound very frightening, and i'm glad you've been to a dr and are getting some tests.
i send caring thoughts to both of you and hope you will keep us posted on how you are doing.
-- susie margaret
webMD info on transient ischemic attack (TIA) is at http://www.webmd.com/stroke/tc/transient-ischemic-attack-tia-topic-overview . i didn't get the impression that J's problems were characterized by passing out, but J should take a look at this description, because it is very possible that i misunderstood her post. i am not a medical person, so this is just one layperson's view.
J, have you seen a neurologist?
J, let me suggest that you start keeping a diary of what symptoms you experience, date, time of day, anything significant that happened around that time, etc. doing this might show some patterns to either you or a dr.
T, your experiences sound very frightening, and i'm glad you've been to a dr and are getting some tests.
i send caring thoughts to both of you and hope you will keep us posted on how you are doing.
-- susie margaret
what good is gold, or silver too, if your heart's not good and true -- hank williams, sr.
Report This| Share this:Any advise or help for prolonged health problem?hello, J and T --<br /> <br />webMD info on <b>transient ischemic attack</b> (<b>TIA</b>) is at <a href="http://www.webmd.com/stroke/tc/transient-ischemic-attack-tia-topic-overview">http://www.webmd.com/stroke/tc/transient-ischemic-attack-tia-topic-overview</a> . i didn't get the impression that J's problems were characterized by passing out, but J should take a look at this description, because it is very possible that i misunderstood her post. <b>i am not a medical person</b>, so this is just one layperson's view.<br /> <br />J, have you seen a neurologist?<br /> <br />J, let me suggest that you start keeping a diary of what symptoms you experience, date, time of day, anything significant that happened around that time, etc. doing this might show some patterns to either you or a dr.<br /> <br />T, your experiences sound very frightening, and i'm glad you've been to a dr and are getting some tests.<br /> <br />i send caring thoughts to both of you and hope you will keep us posted on how you are doing.<br /> <br />-- susie margaret
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