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I'm having multiple odd episodes that are keeping me undiagnosed. Help
Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Oct 19, 2023 | Replies (203)Comment receiving replies
Hello John, You are really suffering terribly. I feel very bad for you because it sounds like you are going through absolute hell!
Check the meds you are on. They are OFTEN the cause of all kinds of nasty side effects. For example, a side effect of meds for rheumatoid arthritis is paranoia and psychosis!
Often when a patient in hospital presents with a host of seemingly unrelated symptoms, they call in an internist to figure things out. Can you go to see one? Don't worry about the cost if that is an issue because your health is precious and it sounds like your quality of life is seriously compromised. Can you insist on being admitted to hospital to undergo a battery of tests to figure out what is causing all these symptoms? No one should have to live with such a condition and have no idea what the diagnosis is. Let us know what happens...hopefully very soon!
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@afrobin Thank you. I am suffering in the worst way. I'm currently not on any medications and haven't been for a long time. Unfortunately, I've been to a number of internists and none of them have been able to help me. When you think Internist, or DO, you may think more inclined or knowledgable than an MD, unfortunately, this isn't the case. I'm a living testament to that. I wish it was that easy but I've had lots of tests including all of the basics.
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@johnwes5819 I absolutely agree that medications are a very frequently overlooked cause of sometimes debilitating and worrisome symptoms - and by "overlooked," I mean by physicians as well as people taking the drugs! A case in point is what I predict will be revealed as an extremely serious problem over the next decade or two : common protein pump inhibitors taken by countless millions and now sold over the counter. From heart arrhythmias and fatigue from low magnesium to unexplained dizziness (often blamed on "anxiety" ), to an increased risk in serious kidney disease, heart attacks and pancreatic cancer and more are now known potential sequalae ..an increased risk in dementia is not proven but suggested by some studies. yet people keep popping them. And doctors too often keep declaring them as "safe and effective" - because, let's face it, they calm symptoms easily and it's quicker and easier than to deal with other potential causes and solutions to GERD and heartburn (and, no, PPIs now are fairly well proven to NOT prevent esophageal cancer as was previously claimed and some research suggests the opposite..)The US is a nation of drug takers and while I totally support medication that is needed and I promote and love and respect science, and research, it is disheartening to consider how many people take multiple drugs they do not necessarily need with little thought or attention paid to what they may be doing to that person and how multiple drugs interact - and if they could be causing strange symptoms. Having said all that, I still think it is highly unlikely, John, that you are suffering from multiple ills. I still think the best explanation so far that covers most all of your symptoms is a form of dysautonomia.