messtafarian
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So...
Two years ago, I developed hot flashes and I was bleeding very heavily menstrually. Otherwise I felt like I was fine but I was getting worried. I had also had a pretty serious head injury a couple months prior to that. Now, two years later, that I have seen my MRI and my cervical spondylosis and yet ANOTHER herniated disc, I am starting to wonder if the "hot flashes" were actually a CNS response to a sprained neck.
About three months ago I became *very* ill. I had meningitis, an ear infection, somehow another herniated disc, my sacroiliac joint dislocated, stomach problems so bad I would double over...etc. And the thing is I had been reading all this other stuff about how to fix your hormones and your thyroid and so on, so when I became seriously ill I tried *everything*. EVERYTHING. I developed a tremor, vertigo, I had terrible pain from the new herniation...started getting tests, suddenly I was told I had an autoimmune disorder and now I find myself at 10:30 in the morning in my house with a warehouse worth of supplements and no idea anymore what I am trying to cure.
what is left: I have slight diplopia ( double vision, my left eye seems a bit weak)), still a touch of vertigo, a fine tremor and something I guess I would call a "reachy" feeling -- it's like my fingers and toes want to reach out, or spasm, something like muscle tension only at the very end of my nerves.
I've done three courses of antibiotics, been on ativan, flexeril, prednisone, and I just filled a prescription for Cymbalta.
So this is what I think. I think somehow what really happened is that I had a nervous breakdown. At this point I feel a sort of internal tension and sort of a mistrust of my body -- I feel unsteady, and weird. But I also seem to notice *every* single message my body is sending me every second of every day. I think I've just now become so hyperaware of "symptoms" that I am freaking myself the hell out. I can't concentrate on anything else at all.
I wonder if I could just calm down if all these "symptoms" would stop. I think what I really have now is an *anxiety* problem, which is what the Cymbalta is supposed to cure, plus peripheral nerve pain which I do not have anymore.
Does anyone have any suggestions for nervousness? I am not calling it anxiety because I think my actual nerves are involved. I am NERVOUS about my health at this point. And anxious generally.
Two years ago, I developed hot flashes and I was bleeding very heavily menstrually. Otherwise I felt like I was fine but I was getting worried. I had also had a pretty serious head injury a couple months prior to that. Now, two years later, that I have seen my MRI and my cervical spondylosis and yet ANOTHER herniated disc, I am starting to wonder if the "hot flashes" were actually a CNS response to a sprained neck.
About three months ago I became *very* ill. I had meningitis, an ear infection, somehow another herniated disc, my sacroiliac joint dislocated, stomach problems so bad I would double over...etc. And the thing is I had been reading all this other stuff about how to fix your hormones and your thyroid and so on, so when I became seriously ill I tried *everything*. EVERYTHING. I developed a tremor, vertigo, I had terrible pain from the new herniation...started getting tests, suddenly I was told I had an autoimmune disorder and now I find myself at 10:30 in the morning in my house with a warehouse worth of supplements and no idea anymore what I am trying to cure.
what is left: I have slight diplopia ( double vision, my left eye seems a bit weak)), still a touch of vertigo, a fine tremor and something I guess I would call a "reachy" feeling -- it's like my fingers and toes want to reach out, or spasm, something like muscle tension only at the very end of my nerves.
I've done three courses of antibiotics, been on ativan, flexeril, prednisone, and I just filled a prescription for Cymbalta.
So this is what I think. I think somehow what really happened is that I had a nervous breakdown. At this point I feel a sort of internal tension and sort of a mistrust of my body -- I feel unsteady, and weird. But I also seem to notice *every* single message my body is sending me every second of every day. I think I've just now become so hyperaware of "symptoms" that I am freaking myself the hell out. I can't concentrate on anything else at all.
I wonder if I could just calm down if all these "symptoms" would stop. I think what I really have now is an *anxiety* problem, which is what the Cymbalta is supposed to cure, plus peripheral nerve pain which I do not have anymore.
Does anyone have any suggestions for nervousness? I am not calling it anxiety because I think my actual nerves are involved. I am NERVOUS about my health at this point. And anxious generally.