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I'm 22 and doctors havent figured out what is causing so many issues with my health

 
 
Reply Fri 28 Aug, 2015 01:45 pm
April 20th:
Went out and drank heavily for my 22nd birthday. Came home, walked into my bathroom and fell on my tile on the left side of my body. No recollection of how/why I fell or the moments after.
For the next four days I could not lay on my left side. I had numbness, tingling, muscle spasms, pins and needles in all limbs. Abdominal pain. Heart constantly racing. I felt a lot slower when it came to moving and thinking. During the night I would wake up clenching like I had to urinate but felt no urge to nor was making the conscious choice to clench.

April 25th:
I woke up feeling completely fine and had no symptoms except for a slight tingling feeling to the right of my spinal cord around my T4. I could not sleep that night and laid awake all morning in bed. During that time I could feel my limbs going tingly and numb again from head to toe. I finally got out of bed and went to use the restroom. Upon sitting down a realized I couldn't feel if I had to use the restroom and didn't know when to push or if I was pushing I couldn't feel that I was doing so.
I decided to go to CareNow and after speaking to the doctor he sent me straight over to Denton Regional with strong concerns of my lack of feeling. By this point i was malnutrition. I couldn't eat, drink, hardly sleep after my fall. I walked into the hospital weighing 114lbs which I have not been since I was maybe 12.
i was placed in room 1 of the ER. they placed an IV in me. Took blood samples and pumped me full of fluids. They kept asking if I could give a urine sample and I said yes I physically could but i can't feel that i have to pee or that Im holding it in. The only way I knew was because I held it in for so long my bladder felt like it was going to pop from being so big. They finally did a CT scan after 5 hours and found "nothing medically urgent" and sent me home after 6 hours. The feeling in my bladder came back later that night but I was still severely suffering from muscle spasms, numbness, tingling, I could hardly walk on my own.

For the 4-6 weeks I continued to suffer from these symptoms along with new ones. The tingling next to my spine got worse, I would walk as far as my mailbox and be done for the day, severe abdominal pain that was worse at night and in the morning, it would almost make me vomit, heat intolerance, severe night sweating. Could not hold my bladder through the night. I could no longer sleep on my stomach after the fall. Sleeping on my back wasn't helping me. I would wake up either right after falling asleep or right before waking up in a sleep paralysis state with an incredibly uncomfortable shock-like wave going through my whole body. This would last from either 5 minutes to three hours. I would not be able to move or call out for help in this state and would just have to wait it out. Muscle spasms all through the night and I wake up not feeling rested at all. I always felt ill and tired.
Went to see Dr. Maddukuri in May. She prescribed me a medication to help with inflammation and help me sleep. It did not help at all and i was back in her office the next week. She wanted me to schedule an MRI for my neck to check for whip lash or signs of post concussion syndrome. The MRI would not be cheap and I did not think that was necessarily going to help me or find the problem.
I then decided to try and wait the symptoms out, regardless of being miserable, to see if they would go away on their own.
My abdominal pain and night sweating calmed down for a few weeks and the tingling, muscle spams and numbness was not so bad. Still had T4 tingling.

June 19th:
I had planned a Vegas road trip months in advance and was due to leave the next day. I went to my PCP because i had been sick all week and did not want to ruin my vacation anymore than it might already be. He gave me a steroid pack and shot. This did help the week I was in Vegas. I could walk and function normally for the most part.

June 26th-July:
Coming back from Vegas my symptoms slowly started coming back. Night sweats, heat intolerance, tingling, loss of sleep and appetite, heart racing day and night, T4 tingling feeling, abdominal pain, always feeling ill and not rested. Could not hold my bladder through the night. Night sweat would come back for a few weeks and then go away for a few more.

August:
Symptoms kept getting worse and would not go away. On the 3rd i saw my PCP who thought I may have Bursitis in my left hip. Thinks night sweating is from my Adderall but I know Its not what is causing it. Says I have tender ribs from falling. He gave me a six day steroid pack for inflammation and for the whole next week while taking it I felt mostly completely fine and that i had finally found the answer to my problems. After taking them my night sweating, abdominal pain, heat intolerance, tingling, T4 tingling, ill feeling and restlessness came back. Went back after a week of this and was prescribed 15mg of Meloxicam. I started taking two a day because they were not helping and are still not helping.

Today:
I feel heat in my hip constantly, muscle weakness, loss of movement and worse at night after trying to sleep on it. Loss of sleep. Tingling in limbs and T4 tingling. Heat intolerance. Night Sweating. Abdominal Pain. Cannot hold bladder through night. Constant ill and tired feeling, Zero energy. Grinding teeth in sleep and on cheeks. Soreness after the smallest activities. Heart constantly racing day and night.

My doctor just took blood to check my CBC, thyroid again and an ANA for Lupus.

Side notes:
I take Adderall xr 20mg
Depo Provera shot for over a year
suffer from anxiety and depression but take no medication for it
nightly drinker
Ecig vapor smoker
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Reply Fri 28 Aug, 2015 04:08 pm
@Courtneylopotosky,
Are you in the United States? Are you near a University hospital? Those are usually teaching hospitals and they have physicians who are curious (well, a lot of the time) to figure out what is going on with a patient with a lot of symptoms. They usually have many medical departments for various specialists and usuall have clinics, for those as well. These are listed on their hospital websites, where you can call and ask for help to find the right department.

Anyway, wherever you are, I'd seek more opinions from other doctors.
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