What on earth is wrong with me?

[kneehightoagrasshopper]

For the past week I have felt like poo. I have no temperature, no rash, no specific aches or pains or anything that I could pinpoint and actually say I am unwell.

I am constantly drained. Not just tired, but more than that, like when you have the start of flu. Once I've managed to motivate myself though I am generally fine, its almost as though I've been hit with a lazy stick.

I am dizzy, and headachey. The dizziness isnt extreme, just enough to send me off balance a bit from time to time, to make me miss the last stair as I walk down it, to make me stagger slightly sideways as I walk, only sometimes, certainly not constant. The dizziness makes me feel slightly nauseaus. Not retching, or actually sick, just like I need to shake my head to clear it. If any of you get that horrible muggy, headachy sick feeling whe it is about to thunder - that s EXACTLY what it is like. Except it is not about to thunder. And It's been more than just a day or two.

Sadly, although whatever I've got has stopped me exercising (totally) it has not made me feel sick enough to stop eating (and I could do with the loss of a few pounds).

Right now am feeling cold and shivery, headachey and slightly dizzy whilst eating a sandwich and crisps and fully able to play with dd.

I do have a slight ache in my lower back/side from time to time - could I have a urine infection or is there a strange virus going round?

Have you had your iron/thyroid/blood pressure checked?

I suffer from low blood pressure and low iron and often feel quite woozy, especially in the morning.

Could you be pregnant?

Sounds a lot like my very early pregnancy symtoms, although I do sometimes get similar pre-menstrally too.

Sounds like how i've felt since i was a teenager.

My mother dragged me to the GP repeatedly and they never found anything and i've 26 now and still feel like that most days.

Let me know if you do find out what it is because i'd love to know

on no SummerRain, how awful :( I am truly sorry for you.

It is highly unlikely I am pregnant, because I am on the pill. I have one dd, and certainly wasn't planning another for quite a few years

I have had blood pressure taken fairly recently, at review for my pill, but not any blood tests.

If this continues I definitely will see the doctor, because I feel like a wet lettuce!

sounds like a (wait for it!!) virus.

I recall having something like this 2 yrs ago, feeling so so tired, dizzy, not with it but with it never seeming to come to anything.

See your GP.It could be anything, a deficiency, labyrynthitis (inflammation of the balance part in the ear) or a migraine. Do you get any pins and needles in your feet?

These are my early pregnancy symptoms. I have low blood pressure (excessively low, according to MW) so if you're not pg maybe it's a blood pressure thing.

i went to the doctor in april with very similar symptoms, headaches almost every day which often became migraines, dizzy spells and extreme fatigue. i had blood tests and he said nothing was wrong.

the dizzy spells became constant disabling dizziness in june and i was hospitalised and had an mri (which was normal thankfully). whilst i was in hospital my bp was taken every hour and nothing was flagged, i was discharged.

i went for a routine check at my doctors after the mri and he looked at my bp and it was incredibly high. he put me on medication immediately. the headaches eased straight away but it took a few weeks for the dizziness to ease as my bp was quite resistant to meds and took a while to find the right ones. i am still tired a lot of the time but not to the extent i was before.

the original doctor didnt even take my bp and the hospital missed how high it was, not sure how!!! im still perplexed how such a simple check went wrong for so long but feel so much better now :D

it can be very hard to get to the bottom of symptoms like these because it can be so many things, the original doc made me feel like i was making up, but you know if theres something wrong. at least get yourself to your doc to be checked out. if you dont get any better, try a different doc if you can, it worked for me :D

Adrenal glands can be over or under working and unless they are at dramatic ends of either spectrum GP probably won't recognise that there is a problem.
It's just a thought, try looking up Adrenal Fatigue. You can do your own saliva test at
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