STD Clinic NIGHTMARE!!!!

[crazyadi]

best advice i can give you is STOP looking on the net for things!

[ipi_ipi_ipi]

I diagnose a hypochondriac.

[poppynurse]

I diagnose a hypochondriac.

 

The aim of this forum is to provide help and support.

How helpful are your comments?

[Spectralis]

I think you would benefit from some counselling. Based on your very detailed accounts of imaginary illness you are causing yourself extreme stress. Fear is a very contagious emotion and once it takes hold the body's fight or flight response gets out of control. The psychological and physical symptoms of nervous exhaustion are very similar to what you describe, including opportunistic infections that take advantage of the stress condition.

As you have had your medical condition assessed by your GP and specialist clinics I recommend you get hold of a book called, "Self Help For Your Nerves" by Dr Claire Weekes. I hope you feel better soon.

[tiglet]

Having read through this thread, i think I may well be able to give you at least some sort of in-expert diagnosis: Generalised Anxiety Disorder.

 

This isn't a mental illness, but it does effect the mind one oft he symptoms is obsessing about your health (and I do mean obsessing) because you have lots and lots of symptoms which just can't all be readily be explained. the symptoms are physical, but the cause is generally not.

 

GAD can lower your immune system as your central nervous system is constantly working over-drive and so you don't ever properly rest. As you like scouting around the net, I would suggest looking at GAD (sometimes this is described as panic attacks) and see if this makes sense to you.

 

The good news is that if it is GAD, there are many treatments available, including medication and CBT. Your GP should be able to help you with this and recognise that you are not a hypochondriac, but rather someone who has had bad experiences and this has led to worries about your health.

 

Hope this helps.

[dyslexicimp]

Wow, reading this Jules you sound like you have been through the mill! Bare with me, its my first post!

 

First of all, I know all about Candida overgrowth, its a bitch. I have it too, however, I went to see a dietition who was also a homeopath. You need to look at the food you eat, cut out anything that has yeast or fungus in it etc, Probably everything you enjoy eating! including beers. There are books. I use the Candida diet book by Karen Brodie.

 

Secondly there is no quick fix, get yourself some support, i.e doctor (maybe not!) counsellor, homeopath dieticion, whoever you feel comfortable with and STICK with it, now, you wont feel great at first, you get a hell of a bloom period, but then you start to gradually feel better, I have been well for 8 years now, and had most of the symtoms you described earlier in the post.

 

Keep going, get diet help and feel well

[seanamarts]

I have read through your post and your symptoms are very like Lupus

Lupus Symptoms

Please dont be alarmed at that suggestion as Lupus can be bought on by many things. And can be controlled. I myself have have been told i may have a form of Lupus called lupus sle, but what you have discribed sounds very familiar to other types of Lupus. It is very hard to diagnose and may take many months even years to get a diagnosis, it however mimics other illness's. No one seems to know why syptoms come on and can dissapear as quick as it comes.

Have a word with your GP and ask to be reffered to a neurologist who can run the appropriate tests's.

As for the nurse who took your blood I strongly suggest you report him. he maybe doing this to others too.

[tiglet]

I still strongly suspect this is anxiety based - instead of having lots of invasive tests, I would advise OP to rule this out first.

[seanamarts]

I still strongly suspect this is anxiety based - instead of having lots of invasive tests, I would advise OP to rule this out first.

Its quite possible and I do not wish any illness on any one and lupus like MS is very hard to diagnose, I was told for over ten years that I was just stressed and suffer with panic attacks and that I needed to see a psychologist I was even sectioned for a while as I new i was ill and that there was something seriously wrong with me but was never believed. after spending ten days in a mental hospital i was discharged with the psychologist scratching his head wondering why i was there and pronounced me sane and got intouch with a doctor to run some tests where they found i had some serious hormone and neurological problems.

shortly after that I had a several strokes and then told I had MS and may have lupus sle. what im trying to say is that yes i was anxious and stress but it was due to doctors not believing that i was ill, i know my own body, i knew something was wrong but was frustrated that no one would believe me which totally mucks your mind up anyway. It is best to rule out everything because anxiety can also be apart of any illness, especially one that most doctors dont think of. It took one doctor and a few blood tests and a brain scan to finally get a diagnosis, I was so relieved that they found some thing was wrong that my anxiety went almost straight away and i wasnt stressed any more which helped with the MS, i could finally concentrate on getting the help that I needed. I was also a little angry at the fact that my strokes could have been well avoided as these I was told were possibly bought on by stress.

but yes find out by all means why you are anxious all the time and get help for it. but asking to see other doctors for some tests in the mean time to rule out other illnesses may eliviate some of the stress and anxiety.