Help, hard to move, weak, fatigue, nausea...

PhoneutriaFae · Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 20

Help...please...I can barely hold myself up right now...I want to sleep so badly, it is all I can think about, but I can't go to sleep yet, must do schoolwork, four projects due tomorrow...dizzy when I stand up, if I can stand up...I can't move much right now. I'm afraid to do anything for fear of falling and not being able to get up. Took shower at boyfriend's because I would be too embarrassed to get help from family, I am supposed to have moved out already, working on getting a job and finding a roommate. I am seventeen. Weakness started yesterday, when I could barely move, could not concentrate on schoolwork at boyfriend's (no, it was not a sexual reason) I could not keep my eyes open, and I could barely keep myself upright. But today, I couldn't stand up in the shower, I ended up just laying on the shower floor, my boyfriend had to help me up and help me lay down next to him and his computer (I didn't want to be away from him and he was helping me with schoolwork, and I didn't want to stop because of the due date). I tried to reach up and hold his hand, but my arm was so heavy, I couldn't hold it up, and it fell back on my face...My body kept trying to throw up, but I was too weak to do that. I slept for about an hour and a fifteen minutes while he did his Future Soldier Training, and was able to move a bit better when he got back. After about an hour and a bit of rice I could walk again.

My joints are hurting again, they used to hurt any time they were used, since the age of seven or eight, doctors thought I had Juvenile arthritis or carpal tunnel, but could find no evidence...It had stopped for awhile, but now it's back, I thought it was because it has finally started getting cold here, because that's another time they swell and get sore. I am nauseous when I wake up and when I run, I start gagging if I run. I am taking Lexapro, have been for over a year, I did suddenly quit three antipsychotics in late august, had a lot of problems because of that, including vomiting/stomach acid reflux, dizziness.

I have been walking about three and a half miles a day, sometimes six, but I don't think that is it, I've been doing that a lot for the last few months. I do have an odd sleep pattern, but I think I have some form of insomnia, the only time I've ever been able to sleep well was when I was sedated with the antipsychotics...Otherwise I tend to get five or less hours of sleep a day, usually more around two, because I wake up constantly, and it takes me 1-2 hours to get to sleep usually, even if I'm totally tired, like when I was in track, ran the mile, the half mile, did hurdles and highjump, plus rode my bike to school which was three and a half miles, and home which was three and a half miles in eighth grade.

I am under a lot of stress with needing a job and a place to live, being totally disliked at home because of the way I was when I was little, and how I hide my emotions a lot of the time. It's frustrating, when I did ever cry because I was upset, if it was because of anything family related, my father would get pissed off and beat the crap out of me when he could, and my mom always told me it was alright to cry, but when I was upset, she made fun of me for 'moping' and 'being a baby'...So why the frell should I show them my feelings now, after they talk about me when they think I'm asleep and refuse to talk to me when I talk to them, won't buy me food most of the time when they go to mcdonald's/subway/tacobell/etc...It really hurts when I let myself think about it...But right now, I just want to sleep and sleep through a few hours...maybe five or something...that'd be aweeeeeesome...

But I need to know what could be wrong with me, maybe it's my diet...I've basically been eating ramen, rice/pasta roni, slim jims, and water...I'm hungry right now...but I don't know if I can make it...and if there would be anything I could bring back with me without having to make a bunch of trips. I'm sitting funny because I can not hold up my head very well, and my arms are getting heavy, along with my legs, it's hard to type...someone help me please!

Also, going to the doctor is out of the question, have no money out of the bank, which is only a hundred, I don't know how much of that has to stay in the bank account, can't ask my mother, since she has money problems and is not really talking to me very much, and would just get pissed off, and my dad is not an option.

Could it be an std/pregnancy? I had sex once recently with my bf, but we weren't planning on it, and didn't want to do it again, but because we didn't plan for it, we didn't have condoms...so he used two ziplock bags...they ripped...he pulled out immediately when he felt the difference, and we washed me out with hot water and cold water and both bar and two kinds of body soap...is it possible that I am pregnant? That was like...five or seven days ago...people around here know me, I can't just go in a little store and get a pregnancy test, plus, those aren't totally reliable, from what I've been told...

What do I do?
Please answer soon, not being able to move is rather unamusing...

NurseAsst · Posted: 12/14/07 - 08:31 Post subject:

You may be suffering withdrawl symptoms from the medications you stopped taking. Other things to take into consideration might be a virus, over exertion, viral hepatitis, or anemia. It sounds as if you have had some health problems in the past, so you should definately get checked out by a doctor.Good luck and feel better

PhoneutriaFae · Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 20

Thanks for the reply!...What kind of virus might this be? If it is hepatitis, there is no cure, correct? Anemia-that's something with your blood, right? The doctors thought I had it, I don't know if they ever checked for it...

acecoolman123 · Newbie Joined: 10 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

ok now that you have said your are tiard and dizzey, joint pain. and the mention of anemia, and your diet first leads me to say that you can try to take a multi vitamin. they cost under 10 bucks for like 120 day supply. you probably have a lot of low vitamins, including iron(low iron results in anemia which is when your blood can't keep a high enough oxogen level.) would explain part of the tiard and dizzeyness, and the rest one be your b vitamins for alertness and energy. so do your body a favor and take one.

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Im on lexapro and having many of the same symptoms. it might be that. ughh i feel like crap!

Help, hard to move, weak, fatigue, nausea...

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