Please diagnose my symptoms please?
June 30th, 2010
I am a 38 year old male. Healthy for all intents and purposes. I am 5’8″ and 145 lbs. I eat pretty well, and exercise once or twice a week.
Here’s the deal. I used to drink a couple nights a week and drink good, I mean like get really drunk. I have experimented and used small amounts of ecstasy and cocaine with alcohol in my late twenties to early 30′s. I haven’t used ecstasy for at least 4 years and I very very rarely do a line here and there. It’s just not for me anymore. I very rarely drink now, since about 2 years ago. maybe about once every 4 months I get liquored at some special event.
Here is the medical breakdown. I have a stressful job. Very stressful. Lately I have been having more abdominal discomfort, like a nagging feeling, I sometimes feel dizzy like I’m going to pass out. I eat pretty normal. I didn’t used to drink a lot of water, but now I make myself. Water was not a part of my diet for a long long time. I just **** the taste of it and I urinate all the time, too much. Anxiety has been coming upon me more and more lately. I have a lack of focus and sometimes muscle pains in the muscles next to my scapula on my left side. Sometimes if I lay the wrong way on an arm or leg it falls asleep faster than normal. I also have an upper extremity hemmangioma on my left hand that I’ve had there since childhood. It has never hurt, and always been deemed cosmetic. It now is giving me some sort of discomfort from time to time.
On a lesser note, as I am getting a little older, I am ********* a lot, I mean a lot. Every half hour. But not much comes out. And the stream is kind of weak.
I have a doctors appointment in a few weeks to get a check up, but of course I am neurotic and am worrying about stuff all the time. I am one of those people that can’t control the worry. Almost to the point where I think I may need to talk to a head doctor and get some anti-anxiety medications. If not, I could end up getting fired.
I have an extreme phobia to needles which has always kept me from getting medical treatment. I even needed stitches one time and a nurse that was on scene at the event, butterflied my gash on my leg and now there is a huge scar. I literally cannot go to the doctors because of this phobia. I have to now. I live alone and I am afraid to pass out or have a heart attack from stress and not have anyone at home to help me. I actually was awakened the night before a big meeting that I was worried about with some pains in my chest. I had no other symptoms of heart attack next to that, so I stayed awake and drank some chamomile tea for the anxiety and didn’t go back to sleep on purpose.
I know I sound neurotic, but this fear just has me petrified and now I can’t avoid it anymore. Am I just driving myself crazy? Reading all above, what would you say?
On a side note. I have had anxiety lately that has caused me to get a couple of xanax from my neighbor, which I have done on a few occassions before and it helped me immensely. Most of the symptoms went away. I somehow don’t see doctors prescribing xanax much anymore and I have heard nightmare stories about Lexipro and other anti anxiety meds. I’ve altered my diet to help as well. For some reason I can’t get rid of the nagging feeling in my gut ever. It feels like a dull burning discomfort. Never sharp pains. Thanks all so far. Appreciated.
Tram
Categories: Heart Diseases | Tags: 4 Months, Phobia, Wrong Way
Katrina
First I think that you have been drinking too much and it has caused damage to your liver hope you get better
Shane
You need to copy this and take it with you to your doctor’s apointment. Also write out any questions that come to mind between now and then and ask your doc about those too.
I had alot of anxiety awhile back, but medication really helped me. I bet alot of your issues will be ok if you just treat the anxiety you feel. Your self medicating with chamomile is a good thing until you can get to your doctor and hear what he has to say.
Eldin
Okay, you sound extremely stressed. Stress causes anxiety and makes you worry about everything, sometimes to the point of blowing everything out of proportion. I used to have extreme stress and depression because I was unemployed for a year. It caused me all kinds of stress-related ailments: back ache, neck ache, bursitis, heart palpitations, insomnia, the list is endless. Of course insomnia didn’t help matters, it made my symptoms worse. I thought there was something seriously wrong with me, I was only 25 but physically I felt like I was 50 and was going to die of a heart attack. Turned out it was just extreme stress. Just remember that if the mind isn’t happy, your body will show it.
Some people think they have symptoms of an oncoming heart attack, and then it turns out to be an anxiety attack.
So take a deep breath… try to see everything in perspective here:
1.) Could your frequent ********* be the cause of drinking a lot of water? How much water do you have in a day? Drinking too much water for your body weight can cause kidney pain and an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach, i.e. diarrhea etc. Remember that frequent ********* is also a sign of diabetes, so you have to rule that out.
2.) Could the uncomfortable feeling in your stomach be stress-related? It could be that you have a stomach ulcer.
3.) It is unlikely that when you go to a general practitioner that there will be needles involved. Needles are normally involved when specific blood tests are being done. Chances are the GP will ask you a few questions, take your blood pressure, listen to your lungs etc. So don’t worry about the needle thing just yet. It’s only with a referral to a specialist at a later stage if there is something seriously wrong with you and blood works need to be done.
4.) Don’t let your GP prescribe you strong tranquilizers for a long period. A lot of doctors are all too eager to prescribe sleeping pills and tranquilizers without thinking about the long-term effects. You can develop a dependency on it and it could start causing the opposite effect: increased anxiety, increased insomnia. So take it only when necessary.
Good luck!
Rebekah
You may not realize it but anxiety can take over your life. Kinda like stress, before you know it, your head, can make you think things that are are not true,like telling you that you have disease and it literally takes over your life and you believe it. Im dang serious.
Dont do that to yourself. Sometimes we are our own worse enemies.
Take a chill, relax, there is nothing wrong with you. Go to the doctor for a routine check-up.Your alright. REALLY. RELAX.
Fear is no fun, it get’s the best of us.