Does Everyone Have a Long List of Weirdo Minor Problems? Or is it just me?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I get:

• labyrinthitis, after a head cold
• tracheitis, sometimes, no idea why
• knee problems
• foot problems
• chronic excema, on hands and feet, very minor but itchy
• minor asthma
• very weird skin and mouth thrush, but only when pg

Is this just what getting older is like, you have a long list of strange larely untreatable illnesses that annoy you all the time?

VeniVidiVickiQV - it's being able to do the splits that led me to become a member of the MN community if you must know

Marfans was on the list of stuff they were considering testing me for. I have strangely long fingers and toes and I'm very slim. Not tall though (5'4")

When the ligament problems started it was mentioned as a possibility.

okay....should I ask?

I am permanently at the doctor with another strange symptom... I'm sure they groan when they see my name!

M.E.
Asthma
Acne
'feel' allergic - to what?!
pins and needles in fingers
numbness in arms, face, nose
rash when I've had a shower using only water
mouth ulcers
dodgy innards, weird abdo pains
labrynthitis
nausea
IBS
frequent chest infections

You get the idea

Mhamai, how strange, I am 39 too and I've been depressed for the last 2 years (well, since autumn 2004)

is the counselling helping? Is it CBT?

I haven't been able to face goign to the GP since 2005

They think one of my brothers has it. He has dislocated quite a few joints over the years, especially his shoulder.

He is v tall and slim (mind you all my brothers are), although he has v long legs, arms and fingers.

I like this thread!

Can't believe I'm the only one with leaky wee problems.

Also excema on hands, hayfever, back pain from scoliosis (much worse since preg/newborn bit) and...here comes the fancy name...obstetric cholestasis.

Pre-pregnancy - I only had one of the above list and that was hayfever. Am fully expecting limbs to start falling off after a second!

Hi Cali, I know how you feel, DS is 19 months old, still in a pretty bad way with pelvis, eventually got an xray when he was 10 months old even though I had not been able to walk without sheer agony. Discovered that the gap was quite large and had wear along the pelvic bone - had to have emergency pain relief injections but they only worked for so long, still got problems now and just found out we are pregnant again - midwives team railroaded me yesterday - which I didn't need, I know what to expect without needing the reminder!

Molesworth, it's psychodynamic, so a lot of this style of therapy is about childhood, the past, the unconscious.

I'm a trainee psychotherapist myself and no I have never experienced CBT but would like to try it eventually as we have just finished this module in college. I can certainly see how it would be beneficial.

I think I've just learned to live with it but I just hate those panicky/anxiety feelings on wakening.

I'm considerig taking up meditation again or perhaps yoga but tbh I think I need to change my diet drastically as I eat a lot of comfort foods.

I do the comfort food thing too, and have a feeling the skin problems are related to all the crap I eat.

Good luck with the training and the counselling mhamai

Sorry I didn't answer you Molesworth as to do I think it's working. Well tbh the counsellor I was with last year was very empathic etc but the woman I'm with now is excellent! It is very challenging and painful at times, I suppose deep down I know in the long run I will benefit but make no mistake it's hard work. Having said that I would go to hell and back to do wat it takes to live out the rest of my life with some integration acceptance and peace of mind.

Thanks Molesworth. I could really do with the good luck at the moment, I'm waaaay behind with essay's

Were you referred to this therapist by your GP, or is the therapy a requirement of your training?

Seriously need to do something about my problem but tend to bury head in the sand. I feel at 39 I have had enough of feeling like this so often and would like to find some sense of acceptance (or at least good coping strategies) in future.

This therapy is part of my training but
I would have had counselling prior to this also. If you feel counselling might work for you, why not give it a go? I'm of the oppinion if it works it works. It's taken me many many years to get to a stage where I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere, o the other hand maybe that's partly down to my being a bit naieve and immature in the past as to what counselling is was? It's by no means written in stone that only counselling is the answer and there will forever be the debate about pills versus talking therapy but there is such a variety of therapy out there today and if I could give you one piece of advice (although ahem strictly speaking counsellors are not supposed to give advice)but if you did venture into it, try and find a therapist you feel comfortable with, by all means a counsellor will challenge you but trust your gut insticnt. Sorry about the long rambly answer, if you want to cat me for any info at any time feel free. Good luck with whatever you decide.

Thank you mhamai x

I am going to look into this ASAP. I am thinking of CBT to help me with some practical techniques for controlling anxiety and persistent negative thoughts. But I am open to any form of talking therapy and quite frankly I wouldn't say no to drugs either at the moment

You and me both! Do let me know how you get on.

Yep, eczma (but on my back so can't see it LOL)
arthritis coming on in my knee and toe, I've ahd it in my back for years but can live with it so whats the point of seeing GP
Reynauds- again, whats the point? Can deal.
Strep in throat which activates after a virus / in stress (actually GP wnted that sorted but I ahte antibiotics unless life threatening)
Dodgy neck / shoulder
panic attacks / phobia- but again, you know, it aint gonna kill me is it
Milk intolerance- bit dodgy on the old calcium but ds's have so I know my nutrition well enough

used to have

really bad hayfever
eczema behind both knees
constant headaches
painful right knee
sinus problems

until i gaveup dairy

now all of you niggling pain people give up dairy for a few weeks and you will be cured

No more milk or steaks!

Ok I've just realised you said dairy, ie not the cow itself!

No more cheese!

lol dh tells me he is gonna exchange me soon for a newer model, as I obviosuly am falling apart...
weird allergies...nohting constant but when it hits it hits...recently opened a thread about juicing and how I seem to be allergic to that...I mean...wtf...I do somehting for my health and that is the thanks, lol!
I am allergic against rain and my own sweat...!
Eczema when I am in a Hospital environment (and people wonder why I am so hesitant to go back into Nursing, lol)...
weird body shape...unlike most women my upper tummy is my prob...my lower tummy pretty flat...again..wtf...clothes aren't made for people like that!
I also have severe ugly days...
my hair is weak and thin and fine and shite...
my sweat really stinks...
horrid teeth...
Ioften have nervous twitches in my eyelids and my arms, etc...
oh the list goes on...I am a freak....Freaks anomynous...here I come, sigh

Jampot ahte to prove you wrong (not) but I gave it up years ago- don have much choice with the diarrhoea / vomiting and all (TMI LOL)

However,my moods lessen so much when I eliminate gluten- but pray, what joy would there be in life??

I may try giving up dairy, although I don't eat many dairy products, certainly not on a daily basis.

Could wheat/gluten intolerance trigger skin probs?

I think I have some sort of wheat/dairy thing (God, I loathe myself for even THINKING about typing that - "I have an intolerance to..." is a sentence opener that makes me want to punch people because of the poncetastic way it's often said - NOT people who actually have allergies, you understand).

But I think I must do.

I might try giving them up alternately, then together and seeing what happens.

Rice pasta here I come...