My symptoms:

NEW ISSUES (as of last couple months):

Rashes around both ankles, tingles/burns when I'm stressed. gets more red when I am stressed or blood pressure goes up. Feel pulse (throbbing) often in bottom of feet

Fingers tingly/numb when laying on sides. I'm fine when on back.

Tingling on back of legs and butt sometimes.

Confusion, can't focus, slightly shaky.

Twitching at night while in bed (in multiple areas of body, once every several seconds. doesn't feel like typical muscle twitching)

Elevated heart rate. Can hardly ever truly relax. Feel high strung.

Bleeding gums (when I brush teeth, more bleeding than normal)

green stool (after drinking)



OLD ISSUES (ongoing):

Pain and tension in neck and shoulder (neck has locked up a couple times in the past)

Bad knee from old injury (can't straighten leg completely)

Heart palpitations, sometimes multiple in a day when stressed.

Somewhat dull chest pains. More often under stress.

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Everything under Old Issues I've never paid much attention to. They never bothered me that much and I attributed them to symptoms of stress.

The New Issues are what I'm concerned about. First week in August all this crap just set in and suddenly began. I thought I gave myself type 2 diabetes from my diet. I don't eat horribly, but not great either. Stay away from sugary stuff most of the time and I don't really use a salt shaker.

I haven't been to a doctor for anything really for the last 20 years. I'm 39. I'm not very familiar with hospitals, and certainly not the type to manifest things. If you looked at me you wouldn't think 'unhealthy'. I'm a gym rat and it shows, and the only thing I do is protein or a very light pre workout with a small dose of caffeine from green tea and some amino acids. I now realize looking healthy means absolutely nothing.

The hospital took blood for 5 tests and lost the paperwork, so I had to go back and have them do it again.. I should get those results tomorrow or tuesday. The nurse mentioned 'peripheral neuropathy' as a possibility after I mentioned that other than the gym, I sit, a LOT. My job for the last two years was nothing but sitting doing remote tech support. Then I go home to sit at my computer learning things about graphics if I'm not at the gym.

I do have hypoglycemia, but this isn't that.. I've known that for years and know what it feels like. I don't eat for a few hours, I get shaky and confused. I eat, I feel great again. This isn't that. As far as I know hypoglycemia doesn't cause the above problems, especially the ankles and such, but I'm no doc.

One question I have is about Chondroitin Sulfate. I keep reading about a relationship between that and PN, but the only info I can find are medical/scientific journals which are very confusing. I can't even tell if the chondroitin causes or adds to the problem, or if it helps cure the problem. The language was foreign to me. I did use chondroitin sulfate for quite a while for a knee injury.

So far I don't have confidence in the doctor I went to or the hospital. One nurse said 'oh, nothing to worry about you have some varicose veins'. Yeah I do have a few of those on my shins, but that isn't what my ankles are. Rashes and varicose veins seem pretty distinct. So, I'm online trying to do my own research. One thing is for sure though, I refuse to put up with this long term and have no interest in treating symptoms. I want to cure these problems from the root, whether it's from diabetes, alcohol (I drink somewhat heavily once a week on Saturdays), my diet, my liver, whatever. I am willing to make big changes and prefer to do this as naturally as possible from the root. I'd like to get some preliminary advice and then I'll probably post my test results here when I get them. I think I have the papers listing the test they are doing.