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Q: Sick and fatigued all the time

asked by: jsurratt6371 on July 1st, 2009

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I am sorry if you want my pic, but all mine are too big and they will not download them. Anyway back to what I am asking. I had a viral myocarditus 6 and a half years ago, it left me with a 30% ejection fracture. Since then I improved it to a 52% which isnt far from normal. I have been sick with oe thing after another since this happened to me, and I always feel tired. I have been depressed and had panic attacks quite often, but I do feel as though this is not what is making me feel so bad. I wake up sore and acky everyday and am pale all the time now. I was not a sick man before the heartattack, but since I am seeing the doc once or twice a month. My family has said that I am a hypocondriac, but I complain of the same thing not new ones, tiredness, fatique, muscle pai throughout my body and stomach pain, I just all around feel bad. I catch colds or upper respiratory infections once a month anymore and just have a hard time getting around. I want my life back more than I could even imagine, I am having trouble dealing with all of this. The doctors never find anything wrong with me, when I go, they say that it is severe depression and anxiety. I have been on cymbalta and Zoloft, both of this with colonipins for anxiety, they reduced my anxiety attacks but I still stayed sick. Now I worry so much about my health I check my pulse and am going white headed from the stress of feeling bad all the time. I was never like this before the heartattack, it bothers me tremendously. Someone please help, I am only 27 and I want to have a normal life, not one plagued by one illness after another. I thought from different articles that I have read that I had muscular schlorosis, due to the fact that I have severe nerve damage in my neck and shoulders ( I had a nerve doctor test my neck and shoulders and he found the damage 4 yrs ago) and the fact I have jerks and twinges throughout my body with random pains all through my body. It matches up but no doctor will check, they all think I am crazy and imagining all of this. It makes me sick to be like this, I just dont believe I am convincing myself I am this sick, how could that even be possible! I feel too bad for that to even be feesible! Someone please help I am on my last legs

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Toast1

replied on October 23rd, 2009

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Sick and fatigued all the time

Hello. Sorry about your multiple symptoms. I also am trying to get to a diagnosis of some odd symptoms including extreme fatigue at times. I am not in the medical field at all, but, given what I have been learning recently about my own health, it sounds like you have an autoimmune disorder of some kind. One autoimmune disorder can affect many different systems in the body. And there are various types of these disorders. Some of them cause symptoms like great fatigue, abdominal pain, chest pain (Lupus [SLE] can inflame the tissue that surrounds the lungs and the tissue that surrounds the heart, for instance), nerve issues, arthritis of various kinds, skin problems, kidney problems, etc. Your doctor(s) can and should order some new blood tests. Tell a doctor that you would like to have blood tests that look for antibodies that indicate various immune disorders, including antibodies called ANA, Smith Antibody, JO-1, etc. You can Google some of these antibodies and various immune disorders. Be sure to include myositis and Lupus. Some other disorders include nerve/myelin damage as I recall. My recent blood test was positive for some autoimmune antibodies (they tested for about a dozen of these antibodies and three were positive--whereas they are all negative for most people without autoimmune disorders), which means I have an autoimmune disorder. This was the first time in my life (I'm in my late 40s) that I know that I've been tested for these antibodies. Many immune disorders start to affect people in their teens, 20s, 30s or 40s. One general form of Lupus can be brought on by certain medicines and subside when the medicines are stopped (we should be so lucky, but probably not). Maybe they've tested your blood for a few autoimmune antibodies over the years, but not enough of them, or not in the last year or two. I get the impression that there are dozens of these antibodies that can be tested for, and that my doctor requested some of the basics and found some positives. More specific tests are in my near future to try to help diagnose my issues. Good luck.

Toast1

replied on October 23rd, 2009

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Oh, and the type of doctor you should be seeing if there is a decent potential for an autoimmune disorder is a rheaumatologist. Immune disorders are their specialty. In my case, my primary caretaker recently ordered some general blood tests that for the first time included a general panel/general test grouping for autoimmune antibodies. Because of some positives for these antibody tests (positive for a fraction of the ones tested for), I am now scheduled to see a rheumatologist to sort out where we go from here medically and diagnostically. In the last week I've been doing basic web research on the antibodies and the immune disorders. I recommend that you ask one of your doctors for autoimmune antibody blood tests (maybe request this blood test of your doctor via a nurse in your doctor's office over the phone so you don't have to wait for an office visit) and/or see if you can have your primary care physicial refer you to a rheumatologist. Again, good luck.

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