Re: Multiple symptoms anxious
Originally Posted by
sleepless65
Im in mid 50s
Can't tell if you're male or female.. if it's the latter, have you gone through the menopause yet?
Has anyone else has had combination of things like this and did it turn out trivial.
I've had literally hundreds of symptoms and it all turned out to be fibromyalgia (life affecting, but not terminal) a severe case of anxiety, and hormone imbalance due to menopause.
Tired all the time , feel spaced out and dizzy
Can be attributed to a number of minor issues, but is common with anxiety.
IBS. Can be stress related or a simple case of ditching dairy (which colons over the age of 50 struggle to digest) and gluten - same reason. I didn't have an issue with dairy until a few years ago, and now it makes me ill. My colon doesn't know what's hit it after an ice-cream!
Dull fullness type ache in lower left hand side and under left rib
Most likely cause - IBS or muscle strain. I've had similar, only on my right side which has been diagnosed as 'musculoskeletal'.
For last few weeks cold all the time and feet freezing
That's me all of the time..
Shooting ache where collar bone meets rib cage, this is intermittent however and don't have it at moment
Have a think about what you've been doing physically. When I knit, I get pains in my collar bones. I also have arthritis in my shoulder and pain can be referred etc..
Not feeling too hungry at moment
When we're anxious we activate the fight or flight response, and that means that digestion shuts down because energy is needed elsewhere. We purge anything that will hinder us - so urine, poo and undigested food etc - so it's not at all surprising that you have no appetite. At my worst, I was surviving on dry crackers and Complan - just to get something inside me, and I felt sick ALL the time.
Had full blood tests done and these were all satisfactory, which rules out some of my fears.
Why only some? What are you thinking now?
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