Hello, i am 24 male from Lebanon, my quality of life has recently dropped to beyond 0 which left me in a complete agony state.
In my past, i suffered some high depression/anxiety and a bit of ocd where i finally managed to control it all with my brain and it took around 4-5 years to do so, and Paxil (SSRI) drug helped inhibiting my panic attacks by far, but as a cons it limited my emotions and left me a bit zombie-like.
After 1 year of stopping that drug and not being on anything else, i started gymming and developing some good body, however i always used to feel extra exhausted when i lift something and felt like i am always putting insane effort to maintain persistence and endurance during an excercise and totally didn't look anywhere near whats compared with the other gymmers cases, and my muscles always remained stiff and sore for perhaps a week less or more,that was okay i thought i lacked some agility and i have to be patient to reach my goal.
After 6 months of gymming, i had some good body transformation results, then where someday i triggered some FLU-like symptoms after somking a standard Malboro ciggarette (i occasionally smoke due to smoke allergy), these symptoms lasted longer than usual ( around a month+), and it started developing a strange hot-cold sensations in chest and spine,however i did take some anti-flu drugs, i also took some anti-histamines.
When i was starting to recover slowly from that, i went to the gym to training a bit, its where i noticed that the strange hot-cold burning sensation that took over my body increase as i perform so that a stream of burning/cold sensation streams down from top of the head down to my feet as the muscles of my body feel really stiff, after few days of that, i had some strange non explanable panic attack where my musles just kept on contracting so much specially in my neck, and started feeling very cold and shivering, it didn't feel like one of the panic attacks that i was used to and looked a bit more physical to me, however few days after that i got hit with a strange sudden shock sensation accompanied by depersonalization and derealization feelings where i felt detached from the whole world, unable to focus on whatever i look at, brain felt like it had so much distracted noise felt like scrumbled eggs and i was kind of attracked by that noise specially located in my left side of the body (brain essentially) just like a magnet, unable to think clearly, unable to feel, unable to appreciate, lost all morals and sensibilities asif i was a neutral object like a tree, although i can still feel the pure sadness/strangeness/fear/guilt and i can feel rage/hate and can remain in those states forever.
I started developing very bad physical sensations, pressure and dizzyness that occurs only on left side of my body, burning and pressure focus on right hand,back of eye hurts and burns as if its wounded right behind the eyeball, constant burning in ears and in the whole sinus area/respiratory system. The worst part is that i get some strange non-panic attacks randomly which where my sinus,larynx,top of chest become totaly dry and my breath starts to burn that area everytime i enhale, the back of the tongue gets numb and a metallic taste (like blood) popps out in my mouth from no where however there is no signs of blood anywhere, i start feeling tired like i jogged for miles as i start feeling coldness in my nervous system basically located in upper back, its occompanies by some severe confusion and the feelings i have out-side this attack start to amplify, and muscles seem to shiver and contract, for some the pattern i noticed is that this case is more often triggers when there is AC turned on, which would start the attack, and dry up my respiration system, and the only way to decrease it and decrease some other symptoms with it temporary is to drink from and respire in a hot cup of anything, even water.
Exams underwent and came back fine:- Brain MRI : Tesla 3
- Cervical Spine (Neck) MRI : Tesla 1.5
- Chest X-ray
- CBC and TSH
- Diabetes
- Blood Pressure
The only thing i was diagnosed with was showed via the Sensitivity Allergy Test, which showed that i am allergic to dust mites and some other home parasite, and i've been on a treatment for that for above 3 months now (Turbohaler:Symbicort and Corticosteriod nasal spray:Omnaris), that didn't help eliminating any of my symptoms.
Other things i tried (described by professional doctors) to help decrease my symptoms of which non worked:- Started another course of Paxil (SSRI) for 6 months increased to 36 mg dailt, had a nil effect, then switched to another course of Cymbalta (SSNRI) for another 6 months, had a nil effect as well so i stopped them all and started a course of high dosage of Amitriptyline HCL and still same thing, however the latter manages to decrease the anxiety i have at times, but that is not the pulpcore of the problem.
- Treating any GERD related effects by consuming Esomeprazole 40 mg daily 30 min before breakfast daily, in addition to some other GERD /Ulcer controlling drugs, for 1-2 months, still taking Esomeparazole however.
- Consuming daily Magnesium + B6 compound .
- Taking a course of 5 B12 shots.
- Changing dieting lifestyle towards better.
My personal thoughts and suspections on what i have:
Based on my experience on all the Anxiety/Depression and panic attacks that i had to the level of total bone numbness,shivering,feeling cold and finally managing to handle it and mind control it,despite that i have severe anxiety and depression again now, what i have now feels completely different and looks more like there is some physical cause behind it and it might be a complex of problems, and after the whole year of daily research on the internet and consulting some online doctors after that i consulted so many locals, things i saw matching my criteria could perhaps be one of the following, knowing that i am in no way a health professional, i am just a programmer:
- Fibromyalgia (unknown/debatable cause/solution), all the burning sensations and chronic exhaustion that i have and some other symptoms can relate to this
- Yeast infection/ Candidiasis, many doctors don't seem to beleive in this since after a long research it appeared that there is no easy way to fully diagnose this , and that a test called (water-spit) test turned out to be totally unreliable,as doctors require a direct valid proof of its existance, but in a nutshell, its basically when certain bacteria in stomach/intenstines or wherever get overgrown and start releasing toxins into the blood stream that accumelates over time, using a very high-resolution microscope to detect black patches seems to be able to diagnose a suspection. The absolute way to treat it is to stop carbs/sugar in any form contained food, even starchy vegetables, meaning cutting diet down to almost only vegtables, and some non starchy seeds, in addition to aquiring some good source of probiotics, anti-fungal bioproducts (since drugs can cause a sever cut-off phase leading to suffering more intense and sudden symptoms).
- Multiple Scerolosis, although i've been tested negative from a professional doctor specialized in MS via a clinincal examination, i just suspected that, as i've heard of some atypical types where clinical diagnoses can be a futile attempt.
- Lyme disease, that is one other thing to diagnose, an infected tick-bite, can cause symptoms leading to anywhere, and matches a big region of symptoms that i suffer from, however i doubt it since i live in Lebanon and there doesn't seem to be such reported cases here.
- Chronice Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) which is basically belonging to the fibromyalgia group, some professionals seem to consider them as one while others tend to separate them apart, they basically have a high matching region of symptoms however CFS tends to focus more on chronic fatigueness.
Despite whatever i have, i just have it set to extreme level, i sense that very well, and it prohibits me from almost doing any activity propery,it decreased my cognitional behavior and left me sort of a disabled person, it is so much agony and i am dying to find out what is wrong, i lost all hopes, i have 0 motivation towards anything and is shocked how life can be this random and cruel which let me loose faith as well.