Hi all,
I apologise in advance for what might be long and rambling....
In the last 18 months I have been experiencing episodes of fatigue, increased frequency of urination, pelvic and lower back discomfort, swollen lymph nodes in neck, sore throat and problems swallowing, accomapnied by moderate anxiety. These symptoms would last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. My dr firstly went down the pelvic route, I had smears, ovarian scans and then fell pregnant, which put a hold on things. Before falling preganant I also had troublesome periods- long lasting, painful and heavy.
Sadly I lost my baby boy at 16 weeks after feeling unusally tired with back and pelvic pains. I still don't know why this happened.
A month after my miscarriage I started getting a pain in my upper chest to the right of sternum. Dr said pulled muscle. Since then I have been experiencing the following symptoms for a month:
Swollen lymph nodes (now beginning to go but seem to go up and down within the day)
*Sore throat on and off
*Problems swallowing on and off
*Coughing on and off and sometimes hoarse voice
*Hot face, expecially upon waking. Episodes througout daytime
*Feeling like i'm out of whack with temperatures- mainly at night, I have been feeling like i'm burining up, sometimes sweating, sometimes dry
*Discomfort around windpipe in lower neck (thyroid??) especially my right hand side, hurts there when I swallow sometimes and that's where it feels like food gets stuck sometimes
*Sweaty, clammy feet. Usually worse at night
*Increased heart rate when doing things like bending down, getting up off of toilet. Some tightness felt across chest
*Change in bowel habits. From 2-3 times a day, now I only go once first thing in morning and it is soft and sticky (hard to wipe)- unusual for me
*Some abdominal discomfort on left hand side
*feeling like a stitch under left rib cage
*increased urination. Sudden urges to go when I don't actually need to
*Feeling weaker than usual (I am an active, strong person usually)
*Decreased mental cognition - more forgetful, foggy
The dr did blood tests three weeks ago- showed low Vit D, low kidney function and Serum ALT levels were a bit out of whack (but had been to a party a couple of days before and drunk prob too much alcohol!).
Dr didn't advise anything apart from take vit d supplements....
I have another appointment with another dr on tues. I am going to try and push things and get some more tests done. The initail anxiety I felt with the onset of this episode of symptoms has decreased slightly, but it is all impacting me a lot.....
I'm not really sure what I'm looking for by posting, I guess maybe simialr experienes, any advice with what tests to push for with Dr. I just feel like I'm going crazy. I know stress may be to blame for some of my symptoms but I just want to start finding out what the hell is going on! And of course, hopefully, get to a stage where we can start trying for a baby again.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated (if you have read this far!! So sorry for long post!!)
Thank you
Kelly