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WhimsicalPig · 20/07/2023 16:30

I feel awful all the time. Physically, mentally. I’ve had a huge range of bloods done twice and GPS say they can’t find anything so that’s the end of it all. But I feel exhausted all the time, I get headrushes a lot. My brain is constantly foggy. And when I say exhausted, I don’t mean really tired, I mean I get dizzy with exhaustion. I could lay down in the cold and rain in The road and sleep. It’s dangerous for me to drive a car. Doctors have put me on sertraline but this has neither changed the situation nor has it made it worse. I am mum to a two year old but have two days a week away from them whilst I work in a job I do enjoy, or would if my brain wasn’t so fogged up I could think properly

Its affecting my physically and mental health. I can’t run more than a few metres without being knackered and out of breath. My skin has become really full, grey and wrinkly. My hair has gone dry. I want to eat junk food all the time, but I actually have a good diet with lots of veg and whole grains. Don’t eat much meat but some chicken, have other protein though. I take a multivitamin, omega fats and a probiotic. I also have powdered things like collagen and turmeric which I have in smoothies a few times a week. I eat lots and lots of nuts and seeds. But my face is so hideous, I had my hair cut today and I couldn’t even look in the mirror I hate it so much. I look about ten years older than I am. My teeth are hurting and going yellow, but my dentist said they were healthy last time I saw him but they look terrible.

I have been feeling awful for months on end. It’s just constant and the GPS no longer care. They’ve got me some mental health meds and on the waiting list for counselling and see you later, but that doesn’t change the physical issues I’m having and the medication hasn’t changed the physical issues. I can’t sleep even though I’m beyond shattered, like this is a tiredness like nothing else. I’m not overweight, I’m 8.5 stones at 5’5”. I can’t afford to go private, nor can I afford to get my teeth whitened or have Botox before anyone says anything. And I have got a good skincare routine going with spf and retinol etc. I feel like something is really wrong but because it isn’t showing up in blood tests doctors don’t care. I worry with the breath loss, headrushes etc it’s my heart but no other symptoms. I just don’t know where to turn, I feel alone. My body is clearly screaming at me something is up but I don’t know what it is. I’m scared.

OP posts:
Spidey66 · 21/07/2023 17:02

Or you're going through an early menopause. (So much for not suggesting a diagnosis🙄)

misskatamari · 21/07/2023 17:06

Sounds a lot like perimenopause symptoms but also really commonly experience symptoms but those in the mindbody/TMS community. I’d really advise checking out Nicole Sachs’ cure for chronic pain podcast and the curable “like mind, like body” podcast. Lots of people dealing with, and healing from, similar. Myself included. Bloods always fine, dismissed by doctors etc

Notellinganyone · 21/07/2023 17:17

Aquamarine1029 · 20/07/2023 17:15

You're 44, it's Peri. Blood tests are not used to diagnose peri-menopause. Arm yourself with the NICE guidelines and march back to your gp.

Absolutely this.

Lilxa89 · 17/09/2025 19:15

Wow i could've written this myself :( how are you now did you get answers

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