A lot of odd symptoms

[GoPanthers]

Hi,
Since about a year ago I've had a handful of weird physical symptoms, and everything the doctors have come to conclude has been related somehow to anxiety. I'm currently taking Librax(Chlordiazepoxide and Clidinium) for what they think is Irritable Bowel Syndrome and it has relieved those symtpoms (diarrhea, frequent bowel movements, irregular bowel movements) for the most part.

Recently I've felt new symptoms:
Dizziness - It's a weird dizziness. I don't have any problems walking, I've never fallen and I've even played sports while feeling this way and been fine.

Dry Mouth - It's a side affect of librax but I feel it often, even when it's probably worn off since taking it last.

Trembling - This has only happened to me once where it was real bad, and it was after exercise. This is the biggets reason I'm posting this in the Diabetes section. My hands were shaking to the point where i could barely meet my drink to my mouth, my mouth was extremely dry during this time even though I had drank plenty of water all day, and I felt dizzy at this time too. It was after playing a game of touch football, which was a solid 30 to 60 minutes of exercise, mainly sprinting.

Sharp pains in my head - I get these very quick, sharp pains in my head, mainly at the top of my head, in the back. They don't happen frequently enough where I'd be that concerned about it being an aneurysm or something of that nature but it still worries me nonetheless. I get them on the right side by the temple as well, but even less frequently.

Headaches - There are times where I even wake up with headaches. They havent been as bad recently but I've tried to make sure I'm having the right amount of sugar daily in fear of having diabetes...they're usually localized headaches where it only hurts in a certain spot, but its not one particular part of the head, its different most times.

Tingling - I get tingling but I don't get it that often in my hands, arms, legs, or feet like diabetes symptoms are described. During exercise I actually get it on my head, the top and back usually. It's a scary feeling.

Anxiety - I've had on and off anxiety about things but never bad enough where I've had a panic attack but bad enough to where I feel physical symptoms(tingling in the face, dry mouth, uncomfortableness, feeling a little claustrophobic, wanting to leave to a familiar place like a car or my house, etc.) I always thought I just had anxiety about things for the past year but now I'm starting to think maybe something else thats physically wrong is triggering  the anxiety. The symptoms im experiencing do just cause more anxiety.

Blurred Vision - It's not as though I have a hard time reading things or seeing things but I feel like I have to focus harder than I should when I'm looking at something.




I'm going to see a doctor as soon as I can but I'd love some piece of mind and some other professionals opinions on what you think might be going on.

[vee120748]

My suspicions are the same as curiouslady1.  It sounds like hypoglycemia, even the dizziness.  Get it checked out

[curiouslady1]

I didn't read the whole thread but the symptoms certainly sound a LOT like hypoglycemia.  I guess you already thought about that though, huh?

[Alsterkimi]

I'm 27 and have been off accutane for a few months.  I went off accutane because i actually started to experience severe dizziness, especially at occassions where I felt nervous and at the gym when I was running on the treadmill.  I got a bunch of blood tests done and everything came back normal.  This was approximately 2 months ago and now I've found the dizziness worsening.  It comes out of know where, in the grocery store in class as I'm in university and it's now accompanied with heart palpatations and chills.  It's extremely stressful as I don't know whats wrong, I don't know if the accutane caused this beacuse its never occurred until i started taking accutane.  I'm beginning to feel depressed because I'm afraid to go anywhere, I'm scared to drive especially with my children.  Please help...does anyone know if this sounds like panic attacks? Has anyone experienced this after accutane?

[missnanny]

PS

If you have seen a doctor elsewhere in the same state, the doctor may be willing to order labwork in your area.  Then you will have a 'headstart' in getting the results.

Now, if these symptoms or at least the dizziness is showing up during physical exertion, then from my perspective, I would think you are putting a high demand on the red blood cells to give you the 'oxygen' you need, and it is being 'used up'   I suspect the dizziness is from lack of an appropriate amount of oxygen available because the fatigue I suspect is an autoimmune action on the red blood cells.

If you weren't stopping the diarrhea symptom, I would see that as another ALERT to exposure to BUYTL, 2-butoxyethanol ...Poly(propylene glycol) monobutyl ether 

Sometimes our medications such as Accutane contain a butylated inert ingredient.

On another point you were in a criminal justice course of study?  I think policemen, and also military, have high exposure as they clean guns, and I suspect there is this kind of chemical in that activity.  Any people sitting near you have 'the sniffles?'

Many of our everyday cleaning products are also health hazardous.  Let me explain Simple Green and super duty Fantastik.

http://www.valdezlink.com/re/msn/clean/fantastik.htm

[missnanny]

"Dizziness - It's a weird dizziness"

"Headaches"

Do you have blood in urine?

Since you have seen a doctor, the doctor could order the lab work, and you could go to the lab & get the blood/urinalisis tests done.  Please ask the doctor to request that the lab tech LOOK at the red blood cells and tell you everything they can about the red blood cells.  I would suspect autoimmune hemoltyic anemia which I suspect is the fatigue doctors are looking for in CFIDS, CFS, FM .... however, just 'the numbers won't figure it out.   What is their age, their size, their shape, their membranes like?

http://www.valdezlink.com/re/msn/avoid2beforhealth-mm/findanemiaforproof.htm

What I mean by 'right now' is that exposure shows effects in a person immediately, and their will be health changes like high or low blood sugar, high or low body temp, high or low blood pressure ... and any assortment of high or low readings on other glands such as thyroid, adrenal glands, etc.  What is your temperature?

So, before these symptoms started a year ago was their anything differently going on in your life?  Before these add on symptoms started up ... what has happened differently at work?  at home?  even whether or not their is a new person coming around.who could be expelling the chemical in their respiration (which would get into your eyes ... second hand exposure)

[Dot.Calm]

Your reply hasn't shown indications of your problems pointing towards complications arising out of diabetes. With that in mind I can suggest only the following;

"I have not received much testing at all" leaves much to assume and to much guessing as to your problem cause. Its not a stroke (negative CT Scan), some anxiety and gastro issues resolved by medication. I still suggest seeing a Neurologist. And get a full checkup with complete blood work at a competent hospital.

[GoPanthers]

I do also feel tired, I listed that in the first post with fatigue I believe. I don't have diarrhea unless I don't take the librax, I don't know if the Chlordiazepoxida in librax slowing down the digestive system would prevent it regardless of the cause or not..

I will mention the concern that maybe it's BUTYL exposure and chronic fatigue when I see the doctor.

I don't really have any mild flu symptoms, I don't have the sniffles or anything resmbling a flu.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "If so, what is going on differently RIGHT THEN? "

[missnanny]

diarrhea, dizzy, headache, numbness and tingling

I still think you should be concerned about exposure to BUTYL which would cause all of these things.  I do not suspect anxiety at all.

Do you also feel tired?

Do you also have any mild flu symptoms or 'the sniffles?'  If so, what is going on differently RIGHT THEN?

[GoPanthers]

Well that's the thing, I have not received much testing at all. The first time I ever went to a doctor about anything anxiety related was after feeling a numb feeling on the right side of my face, it was at a sporting event in the city and it was just my little brother and I. I've never been an anxious person but from what I could see as reasonable explinations it only seemed logical that it was anxiety. My doctor confirmed this, prescribed xanax and said it's "probably" anxiety and to take one whenever I felt symptoms to see if it helped. Like a lot of patients that suffer from anxiety, I felt anxiety over the medication and on top of that, I was a criminal justice major at the time, and filling and/or taking xanax doesn't exactly bode well when they're choosing candidates and doing  background checks. I opted not to take it and just calm myself down. The worst my anxiety ever got was at a school event about two months later, I felt really uncomfortable and had pins and needles type numbness with my entire face. My right side felt kind of weak as well. My fear was some kind of stroke, aneurysm, etc. I was calm and never really lost it but went to the ER to make sure what I was experiencing was just an anxiety attack. They did a cat scan to confirm everything was ok, as the doctor pointed out to me with any kind of stroke the right side of the brain controls left side functions and vice versa but she ordered the test anyway more or less to give me peace of mind. A social worker also came in and discussed what my anxiety could be from and really all I could even come up with was money, being a college student it puts a stress on anyone's wallet, but I've never been one to really sweat not having a lot of money. I have a very good summer job so anything I put on credit I'm confident will get paid off soon enough. We both came to the conclusion I was experiencing anxiety from anxiety. A second run in with my general practitioner for what they determined was irritable bowel syndrome (without tests, they prescribed the librax and said if it doesn't help that we'd have me go to a gastrointestinal specialist. it did help, a lot, and on top of that I never had any blood of mucus in my stool..). And that's really been it for doctors and tests.

Today I played soccer for about 45 minutes to an hour, I'd say 30 minutes in I started feeling the pins and needles tingling on my head and felt pretty dizzy. Again, I've never actually fainted, I didn't really even feel like I was going to lose my balance, but I left and also had blurred vision. And the thing to keep in mind with any sport is this is the one thing I've always been able to just turn off my brain completely and play, and it's the same way until I start to feel any of these symptoms. Since then I've had a pretty bad headache. Still working on finding a doctor up here...it's a small town without a lot of doctors that want new patients apparently. I'm going to call both my insurance company and the hospital here to see what they can do for me in finding a doctor.

[Dot.Calm]

"...everything the doctors have come to conclude has been related somehow to anxiety."

It would of help to know what these doctors actually told you. Was one of these unmentioned doctors a neurologist? It could well be anxiety. Perhaps if you included the specialist you've seen, their actual prognosis, and types of testing performed we'd get a better understanding to assist you better.

[missnanny]

How much exposure?  That's the BIG question and I don't think it has to be anywhere near the present, either.  It would be worth your time to check for the odd assortment of CFIDS symptoms and maybe check your temperature ongoing.

http://www.valdezlink.com/re/changeafterflu.htm

Most people wouldn't suspect butyl, either ... I would also do a search for 2-butoxyethanol, and look at your cleaning products.  Anything you use that has an EPA registration number?  That usually signals a pesticide (which Butyl is) and I would avoid these products.

[GoPanthers]

I haven't had a serious flu that's anywhere near close to the present.

I also can't really think of any exposure to BUTYL other than maybe harmful toxins from my car, which does have an exhaust leak. How often does exposure have to occur though, because I've had bad days with these symptoms when I haven't driven for days...

[missnanny]

This is a pretty good list of the type of symptoms that would fall under the category of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (for short CFS, ME, FM)

Doctors don't know what the fatigue is, but by definition, that is what is said

So many things that are autoimmune & for which exposure to BUTYL should be suspect for ..., start up, that the numbers that help doctors generally, are not very helpful when multiple issues of this type startup

Do recall a serious flu?

What was going on exactly at that time, if so?

Stop exposure to BUTYL
http://www.valdezlink.com/re/avoidpesticides.htm

I think BUTYL causes ME, CFIDS, CFS, FM 'gulf war syndrome'
http://www.valdezlink.com/re/butylcauses.htm