Thyroid test came back well within range (too depressed to look at the figures).
Doctor has signed me off work for a month with depression.
Told me to keep off the internet because it's making me add 2 and 2 together to make 5 all the time. He said support forums are invaluable when you have a diagnosis..
Totally fixated, stayed in bed til 2pm today. Not knowing what's wrong is driving me insane.
It's my birthday on Oct 12 (Saturday), bad timing or what?

Thanks to everyone for your support and kindness x

Happy Birthday.... same day as my husband's!

A good deal of PN can be life style interventions. Too bad your doctor doesn't know that. Some PN is environmental, so finding that solution has to be done on the net.

Oh, well, the net scares many of them, you know.

This forum is always here, free of charge to you and the world.
Use it as you need for whatever you want. We have a Pet's forum, a creative forum with art work and poetry, health news items, sanctuary. Lots of other things to read and click on.
There are many animal lovers here, and the Lighter side and Pets forums are filled with fun video links.

I just learned about "silkie" chickens this week in fact on our Pets forum!

Thanks Mrs D..

I'll check out the animal stuff on the site.

Can't remember if I've mentioned having periods of "heavy arms" as a symptom as well as the feet pain.
I've had it a few times, particularly in the mornings if I'm rushing around (that's not happening much at the moment.. but it happened today by the time I arrived at the doctor's). My arms feel like lead for a while, then it just goes away.
It feels like I'm doing exactly what the doc said, trying to link symptoms and self diagnosing.
He looked at my vocal cords too, as my voice keeps cracking when I try to talk in my usual, lowish voice range. He didn't see anything untoward.
Now I've just got to stay off google looking for a throat self diagnosis...

Thanks again..