Hello guys, I’ve been having so many issues lately and my family don’t believe there is anything wrong, so my only hope is to write here. I’m an 18 year old boy, my weird symptoms first started 5 months ago, where I got the common cold and it weirdly lasted for 40 days. After that, I have always felt there was something wrong. The first symptom was the smell stuck in my nose, after the 40 day sickness, I have always had a smell stuck, it keeps changing, but never goes away, I tried cleaning my nose with all products, just doesn’t work. After about a month a new symptom came up, the dizziness and confusion, the dizziness happened when I didn’t get a lot of sleep, this never used to happen before, the confusion was not severe, but a few times in a day I would just feel weird, like everything is going fast. After that I got a lump in only my right nipple, google says its ok to have them as a teenage boy, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it happened with all the other symptoms. After that more symptoms came up, I started feeling jittery, fatigued, and sometimes slightly out of balance, like the ground is shaking a bit. Later I got itchy darker colored skin in my armpits and thighs. Later I started having headaches where I felt there was pressure on my head, but these have stopped now. Then there was the back pain and nerve pain, it started as just a lower back pain, then after a few days I started to get a shock like pain in my arms and legs, it’s stronger some days than others, and the back pain has been there for about 2 months now. The next symptom that I just got was the random soreness, on random days I would feel like my hands and legs are sore, sometimes even my face, I feel like the joints start to hurt, it mostly happens on my right hand and leg. These past 5 months I have always had a symptom or another, and they keep increasing, I also started getting easily scared/spooked, and there were times when I felt like my heart was beating very strongly, and other times where I could barely feel my heartbeat even when squeezing on my chest. These days I get easily lightheaded, easily irritated, sometimes dizzy. I don’t know what’s happening, I considered hypochondria or general anxiety, but I’ve never been the type to be anxious and I still love social events and I don’t feel depressed or anything, and I don’t think too much about the symptoms but now I am forced to because the pain keeps increasing and a new symptom comes every day. I also feel like my personality has changed so much in the past month, and I don’t know why, it’s weird.
Sorry for the extra long post but that was explaining 5 months of symptoms, I hope someone can help me, I’m becoming more and more miserable every day.
Have you been tested for mono? My son got it when he was 19 and had similar symptoms as you. I think you should go to your doctor and ask for the test tell them your symptoms. They swab your mouth. Test comes back instantly. It’s a viral infection. You can have antiviral but it didn’t help my son much. Just curious do you have pain near your ribs as well? I think you are going to be ok. Just get checked out by the doc. Hope you feel better.
Hi, thank you so much for replying. I just read up on mono and I don’t think I have it, because it transmits through kissing and I have never done that 
plus I have had symptoms for 5 months, so no luck there.
And yeah, I did have pain in my chest area but it comes and goes and it’s next to my heart so I don’t know if its heartburn or rib pain but it lasts hours so it can’t be heartburn. I read up on many diseases, and I can’t seem to figure out what I have, it’s weird and scary.
Hi. I suffer from health anxiety as well. I’ve gone about 2 years of feeling somewhat normal again though. But I remember worrying about my heart, my head and my veins all the time.. I was convinced I had heart problems, POTS, or anything that was killing me. I got pregnant with my 2nd and all that went away and I’m not sure why? I think it was due to my attention being shifted onto being pregnant and then onto raising a newborn.
My point of this is, its very hard to see logic within your thoughts and obsession, But it really is mind of matter, you really have to find something to help you focus your attention off the anxiety symptoms and onto something else. It isn’t logical to have all your worries be true. Just like my worries, I cant have a heart problem and another disease at the same time, and have some vascular vein problem or at least it is highly unlikely.
I’m so sorry your dealing with this. I know its hard to deal with it.