So this all started 4-27-2017. One day I went to bed with a headache which I don't really get. The next day when I woke to head to work I was a little dizzy 6:30am. By 11am I had to leave work because I felt I was going to pass out. So got some dizzy meds on way home. Still had an appetite just dizzy. Missed the next day of work which was Friday then Saturday went to doctor and said I had vertigo. Which I explained I was never spinning just felling faint. Anyway Sunday had a really heavy head feeling with pressure in the back top of my head. And also lost appetite. Went to the er and they did blood work ekg,chest xray,urine sample,checked my blood pressure laying,sitting and standing. Also kinda hard to get a full breath and heart seemed to be racing. Everything was good. Now I started suffering what I would say anxiety. I felt the need to move and also didn't want to be alone. My wife has been on a hurray of pills her whole life. Me on the other hand always calm and reassuring and hate pills. Anyway that Tuesday I went to my regular doctor and he said it was a virus and would be gone by the end of the week. And to rest. I hadent been back to work yet either. So the week went on and lost my appetite completely had to force myself to eat one thing all day for I new I needed to eat. So that Friday I called my doc and said I'm not better so he requested another blood test that came back normal so he referred me to neurologist which was a long way out. So I went back to work that Monday and worked all week but had head pressure ringing in both ears but mainly right ear. And constant dizziness with feeling better for a few hours in between. Still not much appetite but trying to eat healthy. So after that week on the weekend I seemed to get worse and went back to the er. They did another blood test and ct scan of my head and everything came back good. They said vertigo again. And recommended amitriptylene and physical therapy. So Monday while at work I called my doc and he said ok yeah take 10mg ami at night before bed and prescribed escitalopram 20 mg in the morning. Well I hate pills and the escitalopram was over 100 dollars so I didn't get it. So I cut the ami in 1/4 and took 2.5mg a night and by the third day started feeling better.not sure if it's the ami or not. O yeah I also got sleeping pills to because the first week I started not being able to sleep well. the ami helped with falling asleep but would wake very early almost every morning around 5am and could not fall back asleep. So that week I started ami I felt good for almost 2 weeks and then started feeling dizzy again last Friday lost my appetite completely again the last 3 days. Seen the neoroligist on the 12 and he said virus related he thinks but to come back in a month if i still feel this way.and he said it could be ms but highly feels it's not. I had tiredness in my calfs the second week and he said virus can take a toll on our bodies. And way I felt I started to get worse so I left a message with neoroligist cuz he said call if i worsen. And I called my doc and he got me in yesterday and told me that I need to relax that he thought it was post virus stress at first but I've had alot of tests done and he read the neorigist notes and everything is good there. He said it's anxiety. I told him no way could anxiety cause this many symptoms and he advised me it could and I need to take my meds so I agreed. But I woke up at 3 am this morning and could not fall asleep my stomach hurts really bad and I feel like I have the flu or something. My wife had to take the kids to daycare today which I usually always do and she has to go to work but told me to got the hospital. I'm 27yrs old have a wife and 2 kids 8 year old son and 4 year old daughter. So a little about my life. Me and my wife been together since high school got married t years ago and have not been doing good in our marriage lately. My wife and daughter got in a bad car accident 1 and a half years ago. That left my daughter with life time problems. But she can walk talk and think on her own like a normal 4 year old. I just recently last 4-5 months got the foreman position and was working alot 6 days a week and my wife didn't like it and said she was gonna leave because she felt like she was said raising the kids alone. So my doc says everybody has there braking point and I finally found mine. I just do t believe how this could effect me like this so bad. I feel some days I'm dieing slowly. And I love my kids so much and want to watch them from up. I'm kinda shaky Vision goes funny I'm very forgetful. My neck muscles are tense. Just not myself and I've lost about 30lbs in the last 8 weeks. Not on purpose. Everybody says how skinny I am and I look sick and pale.
Also I missed yesterday of work and today because I feel horrible. Sometimes my tongue tingles and my calf muscles in my legs and my hands. Months before all this happened sometimes my pinky finger and ring finger would tingle and I almost felt as thou I had diabetes cuz if i would eat or drink one beer i would feel sick to my stomach and dizzy but would never last longer then 10 minutes. And i was a chewer and drank a 6 pack or so of beer on the weekends. Ever since this happened I quite both besides last week I bummed a chew from a guy at work 3 days in a row and in that time I was feeling so much better I started getting my appetite back and started eating unhealthy
Shane I went through a very similar thiing in Dec/Jan this year, Im 54 and had never had anxiety before apart from I do over worry a bit about things before they happen. Mine started with dizziness as well, no spinning but feeling really off balanced and wobbly legs when I was walking, I made the mistake of googleing my symtoms and then convinced myself I had MS or a brain tumor, then I started having so many awful symptoms, terrible belly aches for the first few hours of the day, constipation, numbness in all sorts of places, extreme fatigue, no apetite, I lost 5 kgs in 5 weeks and I never lose weight even if I try, an internal vibrating, tremoring on and off that made me feel like I was standing on the edge of a cliff about to be pushed off, like extemly nervous. Chills with no fever and feeling like I had a raging temp when it was in fact normal etc etc I went to the ER twice, something Ive never done in my life before and to my own Doc many times, had loads of blood tests, usual nuro tests, urine tests etc even had a colonoscopy due to blodd in my stools and everything was normal, the Docs said anxiety and I thought no way could I be so unwell from anxiety and I was feeling really anoyed that they were saying that, but after finding this site and lots of others with similar stories I started to think ok maybe it all esculated due to the worry that I was going to die and my 5 children would lose their mum , I got better over a couple of weeks, all the wight came back on and now Im so much better, I still have health anxiety going on the latest was Melanoma due to a dodgy mole, that luckily was fine, but I just wanted to tell you it is so likely to be anxiety and not anything sinister, for about 5 weeks I couldnt do anything but lye on the couch, which is not like me at all, I also had this awful vibrating generater like noise going on in my head at night that would wake me up, hope you are also back to your old self soon.
Hi Lee I am going through the exact same thing dizziness headaches hot and cold flashes fatigue loss of appetite thinking I have got everything wrong with me have health anxiety for years just had blood pressure done again and blood tests so will see I feel for every one are like myself dr changed my citalapram 40mg to escalapram 20mg four days ago feel worse at the moment hope it helps me say strong