hi, I am only 17 and i am in a boarding school away from my doctor and i don't trust anybody to stick a needle in me or anything but him and the doctors here say that they have to do that so I have to wait for 3 weeks until I get home again to see a proper doctor so i thought i would do a little research to see if anybody knows what is wrong with me, btw this is going to be a rather long question .
when i first got here (the boarding school, late september early october) i kept getting sick, nothing serious though but i was sick like every other week which is very unusual for me cause i used to get sick twice a year or something like that. then after about 3 months i kept getting really nauseaus and i couldn't eat a proper meal for 3 weeks then i got my appetite back but that only lasted for aboput a month. then i kept getting sick. then i sometimes got really tired for no apperent reason, i would forget what happened to me the day before, or forget my homework (which is really unlike me to do), and for a week i would be really hot all the time and many tghings like that. about 2-3 months ago i started feeling an increase of these symptoms that and now there is always something wrong, here is the list of things that i feel;
Hot Flashes, get really hot when everybody else fell ok or even cold
Night Sweats, for the past week I have been sweating like crazy a kind of cold sweat even though i am sleeping in the same outfit and the same temperature
Dizziness, i have this weird dizziness that gets sometimes so bad that i have problems standing up Low libido, I had a great libido, not overwhelming but a good one and now i rarely am in the mood and it is really annoying for me and my boyfriend
Poor concentration, not just poor concentration but i don‘t feel like doing homework anymore or take any resposibility i just wanna have fun and i just don‘t bother to study for my exams i have no will in doing good in school anymore just wanna drink and party all the time (i don‘t do drugs though or smoke i only drink and i don‘t drink that often but only because i am in a boarding school if i wasn‘ðt i would probably drink every other day or something like that
Painful or tender breasts, the are really tender like i have a bruise on them but i don‘t + they are getting bigger
Fatigue/insomnia, i wanna sleep all day every day or i don‘t want to sleep at all, not cuz i‘m doing something important i just don‘t feel like it
Memory problems, have become so bad that i can hardly remember what i did yesterday and you can forget about asking be about last week, i sorta know what i did but can‘t remember what day, at what time and i only remember because someone told me about it.. also i am forgetting my past
Nausea, it is really bad right now, and sometimes i don‘t feel any nausea but sometimes it is so much that i force myself to eat a meal just so i won‘ t get malnutrition or something and sometimes i am not nauseaus i just don‘t feel like eating and when i force myself to do it i feel very nauseaus
Mood swings, i can get very angry very quickly or pissed at some people for what seems to be no reason at all
Red flushed face, get really red in the face when i get the hot flash
Cry easily, especially over movies, I cried over slumdog millionaire and 17 again and i am not a romantic person and i never usually cry over movies but now i cry over like every sad thing in them Hard stomach, i have a really hard stomach, i haven‘t been exercising at all so i can‘t see the reason why it should be so hard
itchiness, i am really itchy especially in the face
feeling drunk, sometimes i fell like i have been drinking, not like wasted but a little drunk and i haven‘t drunken anything for a while then
cold hands and feet, i always had cold feet and sometimes cold hands but now they are almost always cold, except when i have a hot flash
poor immune system, i am always getting sick
flatulence, i fart endlessly and often with a bad smell..
Usually they aren‘t all at the same time but for the past 1-2 months i have been feeling all the symptoms over 3 days (i have started to write down 4-5 times a day how i am feeling) i am really concerned about this. Also i am on cipralex but i have been for about 3 years now, and i don‘t think it is the drug.
thank you if you can help me and thanks for bothering to read this.
when i first got here (the boarding school, late september early october) i kept getting sick, nothing serious though but i was sick like every other week which is very unusual for me cause i used to get sick twice a year or something like that. then after about 3 months i kept getting really nauseaus and i couldn't eat a proper meal for 3 weeks then i got my appetite back but that only lasted for aboput a month. then i kept getting sick. then i sometimes got really tired for no apperent reason, i would forget what happened to me the day before, or forget my homework (which is really unlike me to do), and for a week i would be really hot all the time and many tghings like that. about 2-3 months ago i started feeling an increase of these symptoms that and now there is always something wrong, here is the list of things that i feel;
Hot Flashes, get really hot when everybody else fell ok or even cold
Night Sweats, for the past week I have been sweating like crazy a kind of cold sweat even though i am sleeping in the same outfit and the same temperature
Dizziness, i have this weird dizziness that gets sometimes so bad that i have problems standing up Low libido, I had a great libido, not overwhelming but a good one and now i rarely am in the mood and it is really annoying for me and my boyfriend
Poor concentration, not just poor concentration but i don‘t feel like doing homework anymore or take any resposibility i just wanna have fun and i just don‘t bother to study for my exams i have no will in doing good in school anymore just wanna drink and party all the time (i don‘t do drugs though or smoke i only drink and i don‘t drink that often but only because i am in a boarding school if i wasn‘ðt i would probably drink every other day or something like that
Painful or tender breasts, the are really tender like i have a bruise on them but i don‘t + they are getting bigger
Fatigue/insomnia, i wanna sleep all day every day or i don‘t want to sleep at all, not cuz i‘m doing something important i just don‘t feel like it
Memory problems, have become so bad that i can hardly remember what i did yesterday and you can forget about asking be about last week, i sorta know what i did but can‘t remember what day, at what time and i only remember because someone told me about it.. also i am forgetting my past
Nausea, it is really bad right now, and sometimes i don‘t feel any nausea but sometimes it is so much that i force myself to eat a meal just so i won‘ t get malnutrition or something and sometimes i am not nauseaus i just don‘t feel like eating and when i force myself to do it i feel very nauseaus
Mood swings, i can get very angry very quickly or pissed at some people for what seems to be no reason at all
Red flushed face, get really red in the face when i get the hot flash
Cry easily, especially over movies, I cried over slumdog millionaire and 17 again and i am not a romantic person and i never usually cry over movies but now i cry over like every sad thing in them Hard stomach, i have a really hard stomach, i haven‘t been exercising at all so i can‘t see the reason why it should be so hard
itchiness, i am really itchy especially in the face
feeling drunk, sometimes i fell like i have been drinking, not like wasted but a little drunk and i haven‘t drunken anything for a while then
cold hands and feet, i always had cold feet and sometimes cold hands but now they are almost always cold, except when i have a hot flash
poor immune system, i am always getting sick
flatulence, i fart endlessly and often with a bad smell..
Usually they aren‘t all at the same time but for the past 1-2 months i have been feeling all the symptoms over 3 days (i have started to write down 4-5 times a day how i am feeling) i am really concerned about this. Also i am on cipralex but i have been for about 3 years now, and i don‘t think it is the drug.
thank you if you can help me and thanks for bothering to read this.
I understand not trusting people as you are currently at boarding school but it might be a good idea to talk to a doctor or to a therapist about this. From what you are describing, the symptoms that you have are too vague to make a definite statement about what they are. Frankly, it could be anxiety! But it's hard to tell. I would recommend speaking to someone, even if you feel a little uneasy. They are there to help you! PLease keep us posted.
honestly to me this sounds like pregnancy, but if you havent missed a period or are on a type of birth control, i'd guess anxiety or low iron levels. definitely speak to a doctor, leaving things for too long can cause a lot of damage to your body and mentality if left untreated for too long. good luck
I feel like I have all these symptoms. Did you ever find out what was wrong?
you should not be drinking at 17.