I've had blood tests and allergy tests and according to those I'm completely fine.
But literally I have constant cold symptoms 24/7... Sometimes flu like symptoms. Stuff nose, constantly running nose, EXHAUSTION ( I mean sleeping 12 hours a day and can't get out of bed to save my life) congestion, and OCCASIONALLY a fever and stomach pains, swollen glands and a sore throat from drainage.
This has been going on for months now, and I can't handle it anymore. It's CONSTANT. I can't even get a job, literally. Sometimes when I wake up I feel like I'm going to pass out for 5 hours straight if I don't lay down, my chest is heavy and I'm so congested and I sleep for 12 hours a day and STILL feel like I need to sleep more. Usually I give up around 4:30pm and just go back to sleep for a few hours because I've been feeling like sh*t and like I'm going to die since I woke up.
I literally can't get a job. I can't do anything. I'm F-ing helpless and I REALLY need help.
I have POTS heart condition, and I take my meds for that regularly. Haven't had many problems. I take Midodrine. I have moderate asthma, and I use my inhaler as needed. I am HSV-1 positive (herpes 1) and have it genitally (or so we think) and am on Valtrex 500mg a day.... I've never had any problems with it, and contracted the virus in December, however I've been this sick even before then. (but if anyone thinks that could be attributed to it, please let me know)
I've been to allergy and heart doctors and my lungs/heart are fine.
I don't know what to do. Someone, please help me. It's getting to the point where I'm so helpless in my own life that I want to kill myself. I can't even leave my house to do anything fun, much less to actually get a job.
When I first contracted the virus I was sick SICK for weeks.......lasted more than a month. Doctors where first thought i had mono but that was not the case. The truth is when your having an outbreak you can get sick with flu/cold like symptoms. Depending on how bad your outbreak is, depends on how sick you get.
The first time i got HSV1 was the worst but i know now that I get sick more often because of it.
You can talk to your doctor about a higher dose of valtrex and see if that helps at all.
You can also just read a bit more in depth about HSV1 and you should find information on what causes outbreak so that you can better prevent them therefore not getting sick as often.
Hi, I am writing to you as someone who has been in the same position before and I have an answer. I think you are dealing with either mold or general biotoxin exposure, or chronic Lyme disease. First, I'd like to mention that POTS is directly related to a condition called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. I encourage you to see a doctor for MCAS if you're wondering if you have it. MCAS is not rare, it's curable, and you don't have to have the more severe symptoms that Google shows in order to have it. The reason why people think it's rare is that it's rarely diagnosed; most people who have it have more minor symptoms than the typical deadly symptoms of it and most doctors aren't aware of MCAS. Also, MCAS is often a result of mold exposure or Lyme disease. It can also be a result of severe trauma alone but it's less common. This is why people think it's incurable. Most people who have mold or Lyme aren't diagnosed with it, so unless their mold/Lyme is treated, they can't recover. Also, the symptoms you listed are signs of Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) and Lyme disease (they have a lot of the same symptoms but CIRS is much more common). CIRS is a chronic illness related to biotoxin exposure, which is most often mold. There are also many misconceptions about toxic mold, which I could get into but you don't have to see it for it to be there because it lives inside the walls and people with CIRS are much more sensitive to mold than most people. Therefore the only tests that are designed for people with CIRS have HERTSMI and ERMI scores.
Did you get any of the new vaccines?
A summary in layman's terms:
a normal immune response to various respiratory viruses differs between various people, which is a good thing as it means the virus can’t evolve to fit all these responses. the mRNA gene therapy, however, has concentrated the immune response among those who’ve taken it into a single type of response, which is that of a pathogen that the body sees often, and thus learns to tolerate (such as bee stings). it so happens that the sarscov2 virus shares much in common with other respiratory virus, so the end result is that the gene therapied cohort are now tolerating, rather than eliminating, many different respiratory viruses, and are therefore getting frequently sick, and spreading these viruses. immune system degradation, whereby repeated infections gradually deplete the body’s ability to fight infections, is making this process even worse. children particularly are suffering, as their immune systems haven’t been exposed to many of the viruses that adults have already seen and fought off. this process will continue, as more and more people get infected with viruses that their immune systems tolerate, and thus even the un-gene-therapied cohort suffer as there so many more than normal sick people spreading infections that their immune systems are becoming overwhelmed, too.