whatiswrong
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Hi there,
Sorry, I made an account just to post this. I have lurked around the forum's for a while now because I have been worried. I find doctor's don't take me seriously and I hate burdening my friends so I'm going to post everything here with a tl;dr at the end. You don't have to read it, I am purely going to vent. For reference, I am a 20yo female, BMI of 22, I don't eat the best I perhaps could (I am a student!) but not the worst either. I try and cook healthy food.
Anyway. my problems started when I was 18. I started getting these random bouts of lightheadedness where I would have to lie down, and unexplained pain under my ribs (especially left side.) The lightheadedness would generally get better with eating and it was manageable, though it got progressively worse. These days I still get lightheadedness, but it comes on super rapidly with little warning, often with this...I don't know how to explain it but I feel super hungry, it feels like I have to eat right now or I will pass out. It is like a switch flicks in my head and BAM I have to rest. I'll start sweating and shaking and I feel my hands shake and I get this rapid heart beat which can be quite painful.
Onto the chest pain, this started about a year ago when I began university. I was sitting in a lecture and I felt my chest tighten up in a very painful way, and my heart rate became super rapid so I could feel it in my ears. I went to the doctors for a sit and wait (and after nearly 2 hours of waiting I nearly left) but they saw me and said my heart rate was over 130 BPM. They gave me an emergency ECG right there and then and they thought my I was having a heart attack so they sent me to hospital. It's worth pointing out I wasn't having a heart attack, although it was practically mimicking one and the hospital sent me home. So I have a very rapid heart beat and get chest pain sometimes, especially when I get a cold/ flu, the fast heart rate/ chest pain is awful.
The next thing to go wrong, so to speak, was my legs. I get cramping in my legs really bad. And once it starts it honestly does not go away until I sleep, no matter what I do. And when I wake up my legs ache so much. Recently this has been joined by pins and needles in my feet and lower legs, as in it will keep going until my feet turn completely numb. Also. I have had scratches on my feet for months and they don't really get better. They don't hurt so it doesn't bother me but it is a bit off. I also get pain in my arms occassionally, but honestly it is more of a twitch in my arms or an electric shock when I move too fast. Sometimes pins and needles but nothing too unbearable in my arms.
And then my periods stopped. Well, not completely, but they started getting further and further apart that I might as well not have them. Also when I did get a period it was very, very painful. Like shooting pains down my legs and being unable to do anything. At this point the doctors did a hormone test and found I had high cortisol, prolactin (I had weird milk problems despite not being pregnant so I had kind of guessed this) and abnormal liver hormones ( I cannot remember what was abnormal about the liver) just that it was weird. I was told I was stressed and that basically I need to calm down. I don't really agree with this, but fair enough.
Then the bladder problems began. It was super painful to go to the bathroom, and even when I wasn't using the bathroom the pain down there was so bad some mornings I would just cry. My boyfriend at the start would get up to comfort me, but I understand that he couldn't keep doing that and so I was left to deal with it. I also am always itching down there, I have had thrush a couple times. I have to go to the bathroom a lot, like several times more than those around me and at least once during the night. I never really noticed until my boyfriend's family started making jokes about how often I use the bathroom. Oh, and if I don't go very quickly I get more awful pain under my ribs, so it can't wait.
Perhaps more concerning to me (sorry this is gross) is that my bowel movements fluctuate a lot. Always between constipation and diarrhoea. I don't know what causes it or what I can do differently but at least it relieves the bloating a little bit. In the last few months I have gotten a lot of pain from bloating, and ibuprofen helps me get rid of the excess "air" and relieves some of the pain but I cannot live off ibuprofen forever. The bloating is always around my tummy area, and sometimes it is quite visible to me. Sex used to be really painful and honestly it still causes loads of cramping afterwards. These days once its (sorry I am about to be crude) inside of me I don't really feel anything at all. It is better than pain during the act I guess, now I just have to cope with the aftermath.
The other weird thing is thirst. So I feel thirsty a lot and drinking water doesn't shift it so I have kind of gotten used to ignoring it. It doesn't matter how much I drink so I tend to just match those around me. Drinking lots and lots of water just means I have to use the bathroom more (and we already established I don't enjoy my bathroom breaks.)
There is a lot more weird stuff I could mention, but I have said enough that I feel it's out of my system. I honestly don't know what's wrong with me, I did once ask if the doctor thought my lightheadedness all the time could be something like diabetes and they laughed me off. Sorry for posting something that is probably not diabetes in such a forum, but I know you're all nice (I've been lurking) and I guess I just want someone to listen to me. This has been going on for years and I know it doesn't sound that bad but it makes me miserable. Thank you for reading, I hope I get better soon.
tl;dr For the last two years I have been in pain; lightheadedness, rapid heartbeat, weird hormones, numbness and pins and needles, bathroom problems, fluctuating bowel movements, bloating, cramps, thirst. 20yo female. Lots of weird stuff going on but doctors don't really care and it takes weeks just to get an appointment, and weeks after that to get a single test. Feeling frustrated and just want to vent, I am sorry it is in a diabetes forum. I hope you all have lovely days.
Sorry, I made an account just to post this. I have lurked around the forum's for a while now because I have been worried. I find doctor's don't take me seriously and I hate burdening my friends so I'm going to post everything here with a tl;dr at the end. You don't have to read it, I am purely going to vent. For reference, I am a 20yo female, BMI of 22, I don't eat the best I perhaps could (I am a student!) but not the worst either. I try and cook healthy food.
Anyway. my problems started when I was 18. I started getting these random bouts of lightheadedness where I would have to lie down, and unexplained pain under my ribs (especially left side.) The lightheadedness would generally get better with eating and it was manageable, though it got progressively worse. These days I still get lightheadedness, but it comes on super rapidly with little warning, often with this...I don't know how to explain it but I feel super hungry, it feels like I have to eat right now or I will pass out. It is like a switch flicks in my head and BAM I have to rest. I'll start sweating and shaking and I feel my hands shake and I get this rapid heart beat which can be quite painful.
Onto the chest pain, this started about a year ago when I began university. I was sitting in a lecture and I felt my chest tighten up in a very painful way, and my heart rate became super rapid so I could feel it in my ears. I went to the doctors for a sit and wait (and after nearly 2 hours of waiting I nearly left) but they saw me and said my heart rate was over 130 BPM. They gave me an emergency ECG right there and then and they thought my I was having a heart attack so they sent me to hospital. It's worth pointing out I wasn't having a heart attack, although it was practically mimicking one and the hospital sent me home. So I have a very rapid heart beat and get chest pain sometimes, especially when I get a cold/ flu, the fast heart rate/ chest pain is awful.
The next thing to go wrong, so to speak, was my legs. I get cramping in my legs really bad. And once it starts it honestly does not go away until I sleep, no matter what I do. And when I wake up my legs ache so much. Recently this has been joined by pins and needles in my feet and lower legs, as in it will keep going until my feet turn completely numb. Also. I have had scratches on my feet for months and they don't really get better. They don't hurt so it doesn't bother me but it is a bit off. I also get pain in my arms occassionally, but honestly it is more of a twitch in my arms or an electric shock when I move too fast. Sometimes pins and needles but nothing too unbearable in my arms.
And then my periods stopped. Well, not completely, but they started getting further and further apart that I might as well not have them. Also when I did get a period it was very, very painful. Like shooting pains down my legs and being unable to do anything. At this point the doctors did a hormone test and found I had high cortisol, prolactin (I had weird milk problems despite not being pregnant so I had kind of guessed this) and abnormal liver hormones ( I cannot remember what was abnormal about the liver) just that it was weird. I was told I was stressed and that basically I need to calm down. I don't really agree with this, but fair enough.
Then the bladder problems began. It was super painful to go to the bathroom, and even when I wasn't using the bathroom the pain down there was so bad some mornings I would just cry. My boyfriend at the start would get up to comfort me, but I understand that he couldn't keep doing that and so I was left to deal with it. I also am always itching down there, I have had thrush a couple times. I have to go to the bathroom a lot, like several times more than those around me and at least once during the night. I never really noticed until my boyfriend's family started making jokes about how often I use the bathroom. Oh, and if I don't go very quickly I get more awful pain under my ribs, so it can't wait.
Perhaps more concerning to me (sorry this is gross) is that my bowel movements fluctuate a lot. Always between constipation and diarrhoea. I don't know what causes it or what I can do differently but at least it relieves the bloating a little bit. In the last few months I have gotten a lot of pain from bloating, and ibuprofen helps me get rid of the excess "air" and relieves some of the pain but I cannot live off ibuprofen forever. The bloating is always around my tummy area, and sometimes it is quite visible to me. Sex used to be really painful and honestly it still causes loads of cramping afterwards. These days once its (sorry I am about to be crude) inside of me I don't really feel anything at all. It is better than pain during the act I guess, now I just have to cope with the aftermath.
The other weird thing is thirst. So I feel thirsty a lot and drinking water doesn't shift it so I have kind of gotten used to ignoring it. It doesn't matter how much I drink so I tend to just match those around me. Drinking lots and lots of water just means I have to use the bathroom more (and we already established I don't enjoy my bathroom breaks.)
There is a lot more weird stuff I could mention, but I have said enough that I feel it's out of my system. I honestly don't know what's wrong with me, I did once ask if the doctor thought my lightheadedness all the time could be something like diabetes and they laughed me off. Sorry for posting something that is probably not diabetes in such a forum, but I know you're all nice (I've been lurking) and I guess I just want someone to listen to me. This has been going on for years and I know it doesn't sound that bad but it makes me miserable. Thank you for reading, I hope I get better soon.
tl;dr For the last two years I have been in pain; lightheadedness, rapid heartbeat, weird hormones, numbness and pins and needles, bathroom problems, fluctuating bowel movements, bloating, cramps, thirst. 20yo female. Lots of weird stuff going on but doctors don't really care and it takes weeks just to get an appointment, and weeks after that to get a single test. Feeling frustrated and just want to vent, I am sorry it is in a diabetes forum. I hope you all have lovely days.
