Do you feel extremely tired and not refreshed after having a night sleep?

yes.

whatever it is, I've been having the same symptms!!!! Let me know when you find out, 'cause I've been tested and can't find the cause either.
Ah, and my family tells me the same, that I'm ok and I should stop bugging them.
I feel exactly the same, all the symptoms you described!!!

really? are you also a girl? because all these symptoms went away once my period ended, which was yesterday. all my symptoms started a week before my period, which is usually when i feel sick. anyway, im going to an endocrinologist tomorrow afternoon to get some tests run on my hormones and such, to see if all this was caused by hormones. it could be. i mean hormones can do CRAZY stuff to you. if all my tests come back normal, then this might of been just some weird bug that comes and goes. weird huh? all i do is pray this never happens again, ahhaha.

yes, I'm a girl, 31, had episodes of messed up hormones (took a shot that induced me to menopause for almost a year, but I'm ok now). I can believe hormones can make us feel horrible, but.. I've NEVER felt like this before... not even when I took that medicine (yes, that made me feel like crap, but not like now, it's a different thing now).

I have hight lymphocyte count, it's been high since... the beginning of the year!! Sometimes also high basophil count.
I'm concerned because I've been feeling like this for some months, and it's not hepatitis, not toxoplasmosis, not rubella, not mononucleosis (that was my biggest hope of finding a vilain for my case!!)... also not intestinal parasites, nothing like that. I kind of see doctors every day, I can't stand this anymore... I've been having these weird symptoms since May. After all this mess, I thought it could be stress.. I went to a cottage to try to rest.. and I was bitten by ticks, and after that i developed new symptoms. That was July already. So now I have 2 different things to worry about. I'll get tested for more stuff soon, I hope I can find out what the heck is going on. In the meanwhile, would you please let me know if you find out anything about high lymphocyte count generating all that illness?
Thanks a lot!!!
*** Are you feeling ok now? I hope so!

well i went to the endocrinologist, and basically he said that theres nothing wrong with me, but if i get this again before my next period then to come back. but i dont WANT to get this again, you know? god this is all so stupid, im truely sick of this. i dont get the anxiety anymore but now i just feel tired all day, and i dont feel like myself, i cant even concentrate!!!! my mom says, "oh you need more sleep and youll feel better!!!" ive slept fine the past and im STILL TIRED and i STILL feel like crap. and i truely have no support at all. everyone keeps saying "its cause your anxious blah blah blah" but why would i do this to myself? i dont even FEEL anxious. im more angry then anything and i just wanna know whats wrong with me! my mom keeps telling me "oh ive gotten those things before too, theyll go away" but HELLO im 19 not 55 years old. stuff like this shouldnt happen to me. im too young to deal with this and its truely driving me nuts! i cry at least 2 or 3 times a day because no one listens to me and they basically all say its MY fault i feel this way. i know my body and i know me, and im not that kind of person at all. i just want to go to a doctor that cares. go to ANYONE that cares and not somebody who will give me pills and send me home. i dont WANT pills i want to know whats wrong. this is so depressing and i swear im going crazy.

Wow, when I've read your post I felt like, "is that my post? did I write this?"
You just wrote what's going on with me again!! I feel the same way, I want to know what's happening, heck with pills! And I'm also the kind of person who knows my body and I know it's not anxiety (yes, people tell me that, too, and they're tired of me and said I better not talk about this to them 'cause they won't listen anymore).
I've been feeling tired and confused too, among other symptoms.
Are your blood tests all normal?
Do you have any skin rash, headaches, ever had crazy night sweats, vision changes?
Isn't there anything unusual you might have done before you felt ill that could have triggered this reaction? do you take birth control pills?
What I do is searching the web for "high lymphocyte count" and see all the wonderful things it can point to. I also googled my symptoms... then I see a list of illnesses that range from the flu to serious conditions... it doesn't help much, except for the fact that I can go to the doctor asking him about those specific illnesses I saw on the web.
I don't know if it helps or makes me more nervous though...
One thing that might have something to do with my case is: despite my thyroid function blood tests are all ok, I had an ultrasound of the neck and it showed I have a cyst on the thyroid. I don't know if it's in it or close to it. I don't know what this means yet, but at least the web says this kind of cyst isn't painful. So I don't know if this can be the cause of all this mess or if it was just found by chance.
If you ever need to talk about the way you feel, let me know. I know how bad it feels and how everybody turns theyr backs!

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you have a cyst? dude i think that can make a difference. and the part that bugs me is, i have alot of friends with thyroid problems. alot, lol. theyre all like, "wow, that sounds like thyroid problems!!! go to the doctor!" so i go and he says theres nothing wrong. ahha. but my friend melissa said (and she has major problems and shes only 20. shes been taking birth control since she was 14 because of her hormone problems.) that when they do tests on you, its not always accurate. because your thyroid fluctuates throughout the day. so when they test you it can be fine, but a different time in the day it can drop or go high. and just the fact the doctor sent me home was annoying. so my mom agreed to take me to a nature path doctor. ive "heard" that they talk to you more, find out whats wrong with you by trying to heal your whole body, not just mask over one part like pain or nausea. but my mom has a history of thyroid problems. so does my dad!!! they have it where its underactive and you get fat. my doctor said though, the thyroid problems when involving panic attacks is when it gets too high, and overactive thyroid. typically with that you loose weight too. AND this is crazy but, in the last 2 weeks ive lost 14 pounds, and im eating the normal amount that i used to before this all happened. thats the part that scares me most. and ive been drinking water like crazy. i dont feel thirsty but my mind keeps telling me "drink! drink! drink!" so i drink more than a gallon a day. basically every 5-10 minutes i take a gulp of water. lol. the funniest thing is when i took my urine test, it said the actual amount of urea in my pee was like .0001% ahhahaha cause ive been drinking so much water. LOL. but my mom has a bump in her throat too, but she hasnt gotten an ultra sound. she has problems swallowing too! and the doctors STILL said nothing was wrong. they just said she had a swallowing abnormality and thats it. i swear sometimes doctors are so dumb ugh. no offense if anyones a doctor and reads this, lol. oh crap i dont remember what questions you asked me, ill have to make another post. ahahhaha

yes i am tired, no matter how much i sleep. i feel drained. i feel occasionally confused, but its more like im spacing out then anything. my blood test came back normal, except for the lymphocytes and neutrophils. i dont have any skin rashes at all, no headaches, i had crazy night sweats like last week ago when i was on my period but not anymore. my vision has been fine, my eyes have been extremely dry though no matter how much water i drink. the only change in my skin is that ive gotten alot of random bruises. im not anemic though, im also not diabetic (even though i have the symptoms of both haahah). for 2 weeks before this all started, i had been very depressed, i felt sore, i was tired, and my lymph nodes were hurting really bad, mostly the ones on my chest. and the day this all happened i was pretty much ok, despite those other things i listed. i dont take birht control because heart attack and blood clots run in my family. my mom took low dose for a year and got a bad blood clot in her arm. (and she weighed 114 at the time). so no i dont take birth control and i never will, lol. i used to google all my symptoms all the time and it just made me feel worse so i stopped. i dont have anxiety anymore at all, im just depressed, tired, and sore, and im loosing weight for no reason. i have had ALOT and i mean ALOT of bad things happen in the past 2 years. basically i am the power house of the family. for awhile my mom and dad wanted to divorce cause my dad was doing....bad things. id hear them fight all the time, id hear him blame everything on her. shed run to me to cry to me, and i made her feel better. i hated my father, still do, for everything hes done. he pressure my mom to do stuff and shes a weak soul, really, and so shed always come to me because im strong minded like my father. my grandma died, around then (this is 10 years ago so yes my mom came running to a 9 year old for help...what can i say, i was very mature for my age). after that everything went downhill. my cousin got married to a drug dealer. got her pregnant and left. my great grandma died. my aunt and uncle divorced so i never got to see my cousins much anymore which i used to see all the time. my brother (whom was my best friend, 8 years older than me, but we did everything together) became an a hole and left the house, and now he does drugs and many other things, and calls me just to tell me about it. my uncle died. my dad had a heart attack, and despite everything he still eats the same, and blames my MOM for everything that happened to him which is bull. my friends whom i loved so much moved and i suddenly went from doing something everyday to doing nothing, and never getting invited any where. theres many more things but, my mom and i both agree that for all these years, im the one who comforted everybody, and i was expected to be the strong one. strong ones cant break down and cry, you have to look emotionaly stable for everybody! its what they expect! oh not to mention, i got a boyfriend at 16 and lost my virginity and started crying right after it happened, and thank god hes not a complete dick and he didnt leave me. were still together. but i never get to see him at al cause he goes to school and work. hes added alot of stress to me too though, because its been a secret from my parents for 3 years. and all my life i always tried to treat my parents better then my brother did, cause i saw what he did to them and i didnt want to hurt them. so i never said no to them about anything, never yelled, never cussed, never anything. i did everything they wanted with a pleasant smile. sometimes i would just go in my bedroom and cry because there were so many things i wanted to say but i didnt want to hurt their feelings. so yea.....i guess all these things are sort of "symptoms" that led up to this. i think what happend is ive kept all this crap bottled up in me, and my brain finally said "i cant take this anymore" and flipped out. im going to get a therapist, which will be great because ill have someone to talk to that isnt biast and wont get angry, cause i dont like people being mad at me. so my mind is leading towards depression right now. im still gonna do other tests though, just in case, cause some medical problems can mimick depression and anxiety, or cause you to get anxiety so thats why im going to a nature path doctor. anyways sorry i wrote so much, im trying to learn to express myself better and i usually do that better through writing. so yea, hope you dont mind reading! lol. do you have kids? are you married???

again i apologize for so much writing ><

oh btw, how do you get tested for toxoplasmosis? because my mom got toxoplasma gondii when she was pregnant with me. they said that i might not com out fully develped or i may come out dead because of it, they even asked her if she wanted to abort. but i came out fine. im not deformed or anything. but it makes me wonder if i might have it because she was pregnant with me when she got it, you know?

just sent you a private message here..

back here, I think this link is interesting, so I'm posting it in a way everybody wll see it:

http://thyroid.about.com/od/takeathyroidqu iz/Thyroid_and_Health_Quizzes_Specialized_ SelfTests_and_Quizzes.htm

some of them have a quizz that you can answer to know if you have hypo or hyperthyroidism.

Here you can find out more about your symptoms:

http://thyroid.about.com/od/relatedconditi ons1/a/checklists.htm

take care!

The first association I got reading your initial post was chronic fatigue syndrome with co-occurring Irritable bowel syndrome.
Hypothyroidism can be one of the many factors contributing to a person's CFS.
On the other side, being bitten by a thick, poses risk for contracting Lyme disease.
30-50% of acute Lyme disease patients went on to develop chronic Lyme disease, that is remarkably similar to CFS.
Also, some previously asymptomatic patients may reactivate their infection following various stressors such as trauma, coexisting illness, antibiotics treatment, or severe psychological stress.
Similar triggers are known to precipitate CFS, too.

yea, i thought alot about it being hypothyroidism too, so i got my thyroid checked recently. everything came back normal. weird huh? well, its been almost 3 months since this all started. im doing better than i was, but theres still some things there. whats left of it, is that ill be absolutly fine, and then get a sudden swoosh of extreme tiredness, or nasuea. in fact i usually get nasuea after i eat something. i still have slight muscle weakness as well. thats pretty much all thats left over from whatever it was. my doctor thinks that now im left over with the stress of it all. because before i was sick i had alot of crap going on too. and so she thinks my immune system suffered allowing me to get some sort of infection or something. and now my body is trying to get back to normal. but it is so hard.