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Diagnose me!

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WordsAreNoUseAtAll · 12/03/2012 21:52

I'm not even sure this is a "thing" and not just general stuff.

My teeth are rubbish, but they have got rubbisher lately - one has fallen out (well, technically, snapped off - the root is still there) and another has started wobbling, as well as aches and pains.

My hair seems to be falling out at an alarming rate. I think it looks thinner, but that might be because I have it darker than normal (directions semi permanent colour - so nothing harsh). DH is always showing me clumps of my hair that he has found on the floor, and if I run my hands through my hair I always get a few strands - maybe 10 or 15? It has always been thick though, so it could just be going normal.

My face seems to have suddenly started ageing. This time last year I hardly ever wore makeup, much less foundation - just a bit of concealer on spots. Now I have actual wrinkles in my forehead and around my eyes and my complexion has gone somehow greyer - hence the dying my hair as an attempt to liven up my face a bit.

I'm doing slimming world and have done one week of couch to 5k but have had to have a break, even though I am raring to get out running, because I am dangerously tired all the time. I can literally fall asleep in ten minutes of sitting anywhere at all comfortable. I can get up some energy in the day if I get some fresh air, but that means I will even more tired by the evening. I have gone from midnight/1am bedtimes, going to bed because I have to be up the next day, not because I am tired, to being so tired that I stumble to bed at 9pm after the kids have settled.

I have random stomach pains. I think they are trapped wind, but more than I usually get. I also seem to have lost my appetite and often feel sick.

I get intense headaches. Most often if I get up after sitting down, but also if one of the kids shines a torch or flashy thing in my eyes (happens surprisingly often) or there are loud noises. I am getting a lot of attacks of a kind of weird dizziness - it's not normal dizziness, it's like a kind of tight dreamy feeling, like when you get a new glasses prescription. Quite often my eyes go out of focus and I have to blink a few times and squint before they start working again.

I get random sharp pains around my body, kind of thin shooty ones - not awfull, but enough for me to pull a bit of a face and people I am talking to ask me if I am ok. Mostly in my arms and chest, but also in my legs. They seem to go if I take a deep breath or two. I also seem to be getting loads of twitches.

I'm 27, my kids are 5 and 2, I don't work because of a mental illness (but symptoms have been under control now for six months or so - I'm starting to build up to getting a job again). I take lamotrigine, which is a mood stabiliser that is also used to treat epilepsy, for my bipolar disorder. I am also on a short course of antibiotics because of my teeth. I have a berrocca tablet every morning and try to limit caffiene to two cups of coffee or four of tea a day - I mostly drink sugar free cordial by the pint.

When I was in hospital last summer (for being mental) they did blood tests for everything, so it can't be anything blood related unless it has started very suddenly (although tbh I didn't have these symptoms then) I can't be pregnant - DH has had a vasectomy and we use condoms as well, plus I don't even think we have had penetrative sex over the last few weeks. I last had a period two weeks ago - I'm due again in about a week and a half.

I am top end of ideal BMI wise, losing weight slowly at about 3lbs a week. These problems have been coming and going for a while, but all of them seem to be here at once. None of them are life changing, but they are enough to be really bothering me and limiting what I will do- I am typing this looking at the keyboard and only glancing at the screen, for example, when I would usually be the other way around. I don't feel depressed, manic or particularly anxious. I am very scared of the dentist - I am on the waiting list for sedation to get my teeth sorted out - but I wouldn't say the fear is effecting my life very much.

Any ideas? Is it the kind of thing I should bother the GP about?

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MirandaGoshawk · 12/03/2012 21:58

Yes, it does sound the sort of thing you should bother the GP about - he/she might know just what's up, or at least be able to do some tests, and get you sorted.

Anyone with two small children is likely to feel a bit frazzled. I would say have a look at your diet & make sure it's balanced. For example, I was very tired & diagnosed with low iron. An iron tablet a day sorted that out. But yes, go to the doctor rather than having lots of random people on here (like me!) speculating.

LadySybilDeChocolate · 12/03/2012 21:59

I don't know but I do think that you need to go and see your GP. It could be some kind of deficiency but I don't know which one. I hope you get some answers.

MirandaGoshawk · 12/03/2012 21:59

Btw - do you smoke? (Just thinking about the aging thing.) If so - stop!

WordsAreNoUseAtAll · 12/03/2012 21:59

DH says I'm just getting old Hmm

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jollyoldstnickschick · 12/03/2012 22:00

I went to my Gp afew weeks ago with several issues and he said to me that the majority of sickness is caused through stress so probably a lot of your symptoms are stress related on top of this i imagine being poorly like you have been is quite exhausting to the mind and body and that you are generally run down,I dont speak from medical experience but i always think when you take medicines and potions they must surely affect your bodies equilibreum and have an impact on your health.

From what youve said youve had a dreadfully hard time and you need to be gentle with yourself,teeth can be fixed and hearts and minds can heal whats important is you x.

WordsAreNoUseAtAll · 12/03/2012 22:04

Nope, no smoking (have never smoked or taken drugs, despite being surrounded by people who do both, which is a very rare incidence of self control on my part). Have in the past drunk too much, eaten and slept too little, but that was all before I got pregnant the first time. Up till recently I was having a pint of weak shandy on four nights a week (me and DH like it when watching DVD boxsets) and one night a week of a total of maybe three pints of bitter in half pints- I'm really not a heavy drinker, although maybe over the recommended limit. Lately I have been drinking much less as I am just too tired for boxsets or going out.

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WordsAreNoUseAtAll · 12/03/2012 22:38

...and another bit just fell off my tooth.

Oh, should add that my sinuses seem to be blocked and I have a sore throat each night. I've been thinking I'm about to get a cold for about four weeks now.

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MirandaGoshawk · 14/03/2012 13:20

It sounds as if you're generally run-down then. Book an appointment with both doctor and dentist!

larrygrylls · 14/03/2012 14:09

Those sound like quite a lot of serious symptoms to me. With two small children, why on earth would you not see your GP?! I also think that, if you are only on the top side of a healthy weight, losing 3lbs a week is quite extreme. It suggests a calorie deficit of 9,000 per week or 1,250-1,300/day, meaning you are probably eating 1,000 calories a day. If you were trying to exercise on top of that, no wonder you are tired. So, what are you actually eating?

Sounds like some kind of nutritional deficit. On the other hand, headaches, photosensitivity and blurred vision are always a reason to see a REAL LIVE doctor.

WordsAreNoUseAtAll · 14/03/2012 14:26

I'm always a bit reluctant to see the doctor - they tend to fob me off a bit as they assume everything is mental health related.

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