Worriedinohio
14-07-13, 12:01
I've been sick since the end of April now with a slew of symptoms and concerns and haven't yet found any answers.
End of April - I caught something while teaching in a school and started developing a cough. The cough was one of those wet, mucous coughs. I thought nothing of it, but it developed into a nonstop cough that would not go away. I also had to blow my noise every 30 seconds, a fever, and felt run down. At the start of May, I went into the doctor on an unrelated matter and got a nasal spray for the above illness. It made me dizzy, but did not cure me. A few weeks later, I went back to the doctor and was given an antibiotic, which I took and seemed to do nothing at all. Two days after this, while playing softball (and still feeling sick), my left arm felt as though it was dead and I could not lift it. I did not injure it in anyway though. Later that night I developed a sharp chest pain in my left side, right around my left nipple. But I continued on until June, when I again went back to the doctor and he did some blood work because he thought it was an Autoimmune problem or pleurisy. He gave me a steroid for inflammation to help with the pleurisy. A few days later the results came back normal, with white blood cells being normal. He ordered a chest x-ray, which was also normal. I was still having the left side chest pain. A week later, the doctor tells me it is not pleurisy, not an infection, and he has no idea what it is. He refers me to a sports medicine doctor because he feels it is muscle related. I then start having some blurry vision after softball. I put a cold washcloth on it and lay down. I woke up later with even worse blurriness, a severe migraine on my right side, and felt like throwing up. I also felt mentally foggy. The migraine pain did not go away until early the next day. Throughout June, the left chest pain continued, as did being mentally foggy every single day, and now my upper left chest (different spot than chest pain) begins vibrating every time I cough.
July - I see the sports medicine doctor and he says it may be a displaced rib and doesn't seem concerned about the nonstop fogginess. I head back to my original doctor who adjusts me and tells me much of my body is out of alignment. He says if it was the rib, it should be cleared up in a week. He gives me hypertension medicine for my fogginess to help reset my blood vessels in my head (should be gone in a week). And he tells me he is not concerned about the chest vibrations because it has only been three weeks, the chest x-ray was normal, and I've never had this before. He suggested it might be a collapsed bronchial and that he was 0% worried that it might develop into something else. He said it may also be allergies. I've also since developed a feeling of having hot cheeks (or flushed), even though they have not been red and look normal to anyone else.
I'm currently on a wait and see plan and so far nothing has changed. I still have left chest pain that will not go away and is worse when I am laying and sit up or bend over. I have vibrations in my left upper chest near the throat, which does that every time I cough. My left chest also feels like I am wheezing or I can hear every little thing in that lung, while the right has no problems and sounds clear. I have had tightness in the left chest too. The flushed/hot feelings on the cheeks won't go away, nor the nonstop fogginess that resulted after that migraine.
Overall, considering the length of time I've been sick with symptoms, all the doctors appointments, and the nagging pain and worry, I've had it. I don't know what to do and have been reading online about every thing I've been "diagnosed" with and again and again my search leads me to lung cancer, since nothing else is working.
My thoughts are, if the x-ray was clear then it either did not show or it is not lung related and if the blood work was normal, then I have no infection (can cancer do this?). Leaving me to wonder, what is going on? I feel as all of these symptoms are huge red flags and yet no one can figure out how to get rid of them.
Help?
End of April - I caught something while teaching in a school and started developing a cough. The cough was one of those wet, mucous coughs. I thought nothing of it, but it developed into a nonstop cough that would not go away. I also had to blow my noise every 30 seconds, a fever, and felt run down. At the start of May, I went into the doctor on an unrelated matter and got a nasal spray for the above illness. It made me dizzy, but did not cure me. A few weeks later, I went back to the doctor and was given an antibiotic, which I took and seemed to do nothing at all. Two days after this, while playing softball (and still feeling sick), my left arm felt as though it was dead and I could not lift it. I did not injure it in anyway though. Later that night I developed a sharp chest pain in my left side, right around my left nipple. But I continued on until June, when I again went back to the doctor and he did some blood work because he thought it was an Autoimmune problem or pleurisy. He gave me a steroid for inflammation to help with the pleurisy. A few days later the results came back normal, with white blood cells being normal. He ordered a chest x-ray, which was also normal. I was still having the left side chest pain. A week later, the doctor tells me it is not pleurisy, not an infection, and he has no idea what it is. He refers me to a sports medicine doctor because he feels it is muscle related. I then start having some blurry vision after softball. I put a cold washcloth on it and lay down. I woke up later with even worse blurriness, a severe migraine on my right side, and felt like throwing up. I also felt mentally foggy. The migraine pain did not go away until early the next day. Throughout June, the left chest pain continued, as did being mentally foggy every single day, and now my upper left chest (different spot than chest pain) begins vibrating every time I cough.
July - I see the sports medicine doctor and he says it may be a displaced rib and doesn't seem concerned about the nonstop fogginess. I head back to my original doctor who adjusts me and tells me much of my body is out of alignment. He says if it was the rib, it should be cleared up in a week. He gives me hypertension medicine for my fogginess to help reset my blood vessels in my head (should be gone in a week). And he tells me he is not concerned about the chest vibrations because it has only been three weeks, the chest x-ray was normal, and I've never had this before. He suggested it might be a collapsed bronchial and that he was 0% worried that it might develop into something else. He said it may also be allergies. I've also since developed a feeling of having hot cheeks (or flushed), even though they have not been red and look normal to anyone else.
I'm currently on a wait and see plan and so far nothing has changed. I still have left chest pain that will not go away and is worse when I am laying and sit up or bend over. I have vibrations in my left upper chest near the throat, which does that every time I cough. My left chest also feels like I am wheezing or I can hear every little thing in that lung, while the right has no problems and sounds clear. I have had tightness in the left chest too. The flushed/hot feelings on the cheeks won't go away, nor the nonstop fogginess that resulted after that migraine.
Overall, considering the length of time I've been sick with symptoms, all the doctors appointments, and the nagging pain and worry, I've had it. I don't know what to do and have been reading online about every thing I've been "diagnosed" with and again and again my search leads me to lung cancer, since nothing else is working.
My thoughts are, if the x-ray was clear then it either did not show or it is not lung related and if the blood work was normal, then I have no infection (can cancer do this?). Leaving me to wonder, what is going on? I feel as all of these symptoms are huge red flags and yet no one can figure out how to get rid of them.
Help?