I've been feeling bad since Aug/Sept last year - copious vomiting after a trip abroad and thought it was covid but never got over the nausea that followed. I was under a lot of stress with various deaths and outside events so put it down to that and have had anxiety in the past so kept thinking, if I can just get my head straight/bit of calm... Very tired all the time.
Jan I was misdiagnosed with costochondria in A&E after being told in Walk In that I had a Pulmonary Embolism (high D dimer). A&E made me wait 18hrs then sent me home (anxiety on the file meant they simply didn't bother with a CT and assumed it was all in my head). Eventually blue lighted back in unable to breathe and lost a section of bottom left lung to large clot. On apixaban for just 3 months because am apparently "otherwise healthy" . Very worried as to what caused clot - heamatology say just a flight I had, respiratory consultant said no, something is underlying this and the weight loss since Aug/Sept. He said no point checking lungs as clot gone but did ultrasound of abdomen, nothing obvious there. Decided maybe I should trust heamatology and just put it down to stress.
Started being even more nauseous when eating I was only managing 4 mouthfuls then often nearly passing out with pain an hr later, esp if eating processed meat. This has been going on since early March, every time I eat.
Took weeks to get GP app - they have a voicemail that tells you to ring 999 in an emergency. Got one in an empty surgery in neighbouring village (explained to them why they never get phone calls and have zero patients in the waiting room, not sure they were bothered). Lovely GP sent me for bloods, gave me beta blockers for hypertension (I usually have very very low BP) and put me in for a CT for abdomen when she saw I had lost so much weight in a month.
Bloods came back with hyperthyroidism, severe B12 deficiency, low vit D and stage 2 CKD which apparently is not unusual for age but isn't helping with the fatigue. That was March 17th and so far am still on the low dose beta blockers. I've been sent for 2 CT's but can't do them because the hyperthryoid isn't treated. I have had to beg and plead for second set of bloods to check coeliac and Graves and autoimmune and thyroid function - can't have those taken until 17th. Saw on notes from radiologist from Friday that I am meant to be on carbimazole but have had nothing to tell me this and app hasn't got it listed as a prescription (the note said once this was established I could finally get the CT) so I have to admit to a sense they just want me to get worse. Last GP who called was a locum last week who said endochrinologist would be at least a 2 month weight but I don't think I will be able to get out of bed if it is left that long with this weight loss.
I'm officially in the underweight section - for context I lost 2Ib last week. So tired it means I can't get out of bed for most of the day. Making myself do a dog walk for the poor dog but I am wiped afterwards. Am 5ft 10 and 8st 2 and feel like a tired bag of bones with a terrible memory and racing heart. Keep posting on here because it feels like it is all I can do.