For those of you that have been down this road.
Son is 22, here is the chronology:
June 2017 - Babesiosis (tick-borne infection) treated and improves well over first few months
Oct 2017 - May 1 2018 : still suffering mild but constant fatigue temp. sensitive, back to college part time
May 3 - wakes up with shortness of breath/palpitations 24x7, normal route, sees PCP thinks respiratory 5 days Prednisone no effect, other blood tests (CBC/TSH/etc) negative. Improves a bit a few days later but more fatigued, still short of breath, heart palpitations.
May 11 - Pulmonary all tests for lungs and allergies, negative
May 12 - Severe shortness of breath, take him to ER. EKG, Cat scan, blood work, Echocardiogram, negative
May 15 - PCP punts us saying anxiety just put him on prozac.
May 23 - Appt. with Endocrinologist, give her enough symptoms she decides to check norepinephrine/epinephrine/dopamine (waiting)
May 24 - Cardiologist follow up, palpitations are still there really without increased heart rate, going to do 24-hour monitor when they call us,, I think this is just being extra careful.
With these piles of negative results and the duration my son is struggling to get an answer to what is going on.
His current state is really just dialing things back to zero.
I work from home, he goes to the doctor, and other than that sits on the couch all day noodling on his computer. The rest of his time is spent with me "troubleshooting" and "lamenting" about his symptoms. He says I don't feel "comfortable" enough to do anything given his symptoms especially shortness of breath.
No big changes in his life this last episode came literally out of nowhere. He has always been an anxious kid but I just don't believe he'd be dialing it back this much unless this stuff is really hampering him. To be honest he kind of freaks out (understandable) once a week, but other than that I am surprised at how calm he is. But in my mind there are too many symptoms to rule out an anxiety disorder.
But with all these negative results, I don't really know how to help him.
For anyone that stuck with me this long, could a long term anxiety just be unconscious and causing these symptoms? For really the last 4 years all that he has done is go to school and play video games, he sees old friends every few months, but has no other friends and never had a girlfriend.