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Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 6
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 6
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I understand that these symptoms can be pretty broad when it comes to actually diagnosing and that docs don't want to dx me with something without being 100% sure. I have had fasting and non-fasting bloodwork done which showed normal levels for everything, including TSH and free T4. My mother has lups and RA which I told the neurologist about and he didn't mention that even being a possibility.
One other symptom that I can't be sure whether it's related or not is that I seem to not be able to breathe in any hot surroundings. I can't even take hot showers. I can't be outside when its too humid because I can't take in a full breath and I start to feel faint. I'm not sure if that's just a symptom of some kind of asthma or if it could be related to this whole deal of symptoms.
I was diagnosed with Lyme while I worked in upstate New York and I received antibiotics for 30 days and that was it. I grew up in SW Ohio which is prone to ticks also so I guess theoretically I could have gotten it while I was younger and had a reinfection or been bitten again. However, when they tested me it came up negative. But they said within the first month, false negatives are common and I showed all the symptoms so they gave me the doxycycline anyway.
I guess what I am so aggravated with is that fact that they just brush me off. They will give me a dx that doesn't even fit my symptoms or test results, and refuse to look at me further. The neurologist wants me to wear a Holter monitor for 30 days. However, my insurance wont cover the newest version and will only cover the older one which runs off a land line.....which I don't have. So the only time I can transmit my heart rate is at work which means I have to have an episode while I'm there or they will never be able to track it.
I have to go to a family doctor for an ultrasound and a fine needle aspiration on my thyroid nodule because I'm only 22 and it was a single nodule, not a cluster. My first thought was that it could possibly be pressing on a nerve or an artery causing these episodes but when I mentioned that to the neurologist he said no.
I'm definitely going to bring up all symptoms to my new family doc though. Having gone to the opthalmologist also, he said that my eyes were fine and that they aren't ocular migraines. Thanks for the info. I certainly didn't know the other things like B12 levels could cause this. I will look into that also.
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