unexplained dizziness, contstant heavy head, extreme fatigue, subtle nausea

My doctor is trying to rule out poor sleep quality as the source of my problems. If I am not getting a very deep sleep each night, it could cause the foggy head and lethargy. So, she has me on Elavil (Amitriptyline), which I've been on for about 3 weeks. After finding I had no bad immediate side effects, she's put me on a higher dose. We'll see how it goes.

I'm thinking that all this fatigue and cloudy head might just be a weird non-typical reaction to allergies. I was away to Tofino (oceanside) last weekend. I didn't have a foggy head there. When I got home Sunday night, I felt the pressure rise inside my head. I didn't start sneezing or get a runny nose, but the feeling of the pressure was quite sudden and noticeable. Monday and Tuesday I had extreme lethargy and cloudy head. So... I am wondering if coming back home to all of the allergens (dust mites, cat dander, cottonwood is flying around like crazy in my neighbourhood) has triggered this. I try to control the dust mites and cat dander, but of course it's still around my house.

Has anybody else found that they have really bad allergies, especially to dust mites, your pets, or pollens? I never got tested until this year (and I'm 35!) because I don't show any typical signs. I don't sneeze, my eyes aren't itchy and watery and red (they just feel tired, hurt a bit, and it feels like I have big puffy bags under them), my nose doesn't run. I never even suspected that I had allergies.

I can relate to most of you. Abz73 - I am just as frustrated as you - when I'm feeling like this, I feel like I can't even raise my arms I'm so tired. I don't want to socialize or exercise or anything. It sucks so bad, and most people can't understand. Like you, my memory is getting really bad. Most of the year I feel like c**p, but on those days that I feel good, I feel like such a happy awesome person.

Abz73 - for me I started working at my computer a lot this past September. I developed a lot of neck problems. However, in my case at least, I don't think that it's related to these other problems because I've had my cloudy head and fatigue for years.

Maybe in my case it is a combination of allergies to frackin dust mites and poor sleep quality. I'll keep you all posted when I figure out whether the Elavil is effective or not.

The other idea I have is that it is anxiety that causes this. Even though I have not been terribly stressed over the years, I do have periods of stress. However, I am a worrier and thinker by nature. I even remember worrying as a kid. So maybe a constant stream of mild anxiety could cause this???? I know that stress can wreak havoc on people physically.

I don't know what the answers are, but I NEED to find out. I cancelled a trip to Paraguay this summer so that I could stay home to deal with this. I'm pissed off and getting depressed about it, but what else can I do?

My doc said i was depressed and i dont feel it at all im just fed up with always feeling ill, Ive heard that anxiety can cause physical symptoms but surely if It was anxiety that was causing my problems the will I have to 'be' welll would over rule it???? im not this tired and achey nrmally I always ache after a god days work (who doesnt) but these days I really can be bothered to do anything im keeping up with work and thats about it i really have to 'make' myself do housework, walk the dog (not very often) laundry etc ..................................... I just wish it wuld stop

Ok, so the MRI for my neck turned out NORMAL!!! AAHHHH. I don't want to hear NORMAL any more. I don't feel normal and I'm tired of it. I'm glad to say it's not 100% of the time. I've stopped seeing my chiro & accupuncturist due to costs.
Here's what I'm doing to pursue this miserable feeling. I've created a newsgroup JUST for this. Please join if you'd like to share your problems, symptoms, tests, and hopefully findings.
Email: _[removed]_
Web: http://groups.google.com/group/unwell-being

Other symptoms I also have but not necessarily related:
-Really bad back pain especially after sleeping for a few hours
-Joint stiffness
-Current bad allergies(Just currently)
-IBS
-Acid Reflux
-Light sleeper

All the best

Hello,

I've felt like this before, and it's come back - and I always get better with Threelac.

This for overproduction of the candida fungi in your body :-)
I thend to get it when I've eaten too many potatoes, or eaten too much sugar basically - especially around the start of my period.

Threelac you can find on the internet, as it's on of the many alternative products that's 1000x better than going to your local GP.

Good luck everyone.

Vibeke

I to have had these experiences. My life is fact past. I work 40 hr on a regular job and have a business on the side I probably work at least 70 hrs a week. I am 40 years old. Mine has gotten worse of the years. Sometimes after I eat, espically if it is sweet, I will get cold sweats, feel dizzy, plus rate goes above 100. I drink about 3 diet cokes a day. I am not over weight, I do have a lot of stress. Sometimes I even have a shooting pain in my chest, real quick and then it is gone. After I lay down for about an hr it goes away it seems. Doctors say it is panic attacks, I don't know. I would like to figure out a way to control it.

Have any of you looked into Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)? Or any other forms of dysautonomia? I'm an 18 year old male who has POTS, which causes most of the symptoms described in this thread.

You should definitely look more into this:

www.dinet.org

That's a good place to start. Good luck!

Hello Everyone,

Wow!!! I am reading all of your messages and you all sound like me.... Extreme fatique, dizzyness, nautious, headache, muscle weakness and cramps, memory problems, not able to concentrate, no apetite, no energy, can sleep anytime any where, irritable, and also lack of ambition...

I have also on occassion had the right side of my face, left arm and both hands at the same time go numb and tingling.

I am also affraid to go anywhere or do anything as I find I get extremely tired from the smallest of activity, after doing the dishes, I need to lie down....

Three years ago, I was an office manager, I was the executive assistant to two managers and the sales coordinator of 25 sales rep's... I loved to multi task and my job did just that...

I have had these symptoms in the past but never all at the same time....

Then all of a sudden like the flick of a switch, I started having memory problems... then the fatique, headache, dizzyness, and so on....

two years ago i had a MRI that showed multiple TIA's....

Recent blood work showed that i have a high level of Calcium in my blood so my Dr also checked my PTH level which was also high.. My Dr then sent me to a internal Dr who ran the same bloodwork. This time my PTH is still high and my calcium is normal.... She decided based on the normal calcium this time, that it is not my parathyroid???? Not knowing what else to do she is having me take vitamin D.?????

i am confused ...... I thought that once you have been diagnosed with a high calcium and PTH, then it is known that you have hyperparatyroidism?? Is this true.... Is it possible for your calcium levels to flectuate.???

Has anyone else had their calcium and parathyroid hormones checked in their blood... ???

Desperately seeking my old self again.....

hi skarl, i would like to know if you found a cure. i am suffering from the same symptoms right down to the acne! please let me know.

Hi, I'm 36, my name is Jarrod, some of the symptoms you have are very similar to my own. As for the fog feeling, get zoloft or sertraline which is the generic. It will help for the fog feeling. I recommend you take low dosage 25 to 50 mg a night before you go to bed. After several months you may need to raise the dosage to 75 to a 100 mg. It works wonders for the fog. * Make sure you don't miss a dose, because if you do, you will have the worst headache. Remember to place it by your bed, so you'll take it. You may also need to try to cut out all sugars out of your diet along with cokes, the caffeine and sugar rob your body of nutrients and give you the rebound affect. Avoid sucrose and corn syrups. There in about all processed foods, eat products all natural if you can. It may take awhile bit I feel you will start feeling better. p.s. as for the hearing loss donot I repeat listen to music using ear plugs or headphones, the electrical magnetic field clogs the capillaries, its irreversible. But, it can get much worse. Take vitamin B12 for energy. Hope this helps, jarrodmoses@hotmail.com

Hi...

For the past 3 years or so I have been experiencing

Dizzyness
Slight to mild nausea
Upper back pain (between shoulder blades) quite severe and have to get out of bed for some relief
bloatedness
unable to focus or concentrate
no tolerance to sudden noise
joint pain
IBS
Acid Reflux
and other symptons I cannot think of at the minute

I have these syptoms ALL of the time now with the odd day or 2 every 3 months where I feel normal
Life is a living hell at the moment...dunno how longer I can cope...Had every test done...all came back normal...doctor says its anxiety...

Will try to stop using Aspartamene to see if symptoms improve...but back pain is now so bad I cant cope anymore...need to lie down to get rlief during the day...and need to get up after sleep to get relief.....

Anyone else had any joy with treatment etc.....

Cheers

Joe

BTW

39 year old male....never been in hospital or had any illnesses

joebow,

your symptoms sound a lot like mine. Try stopping all caffeine, alcohol and artificial sweeteners. Caffeine is a pain in the ass to stop if you are a regular coffee drinker . . . but it made a HUGE difference for my symptoms. Give it a good ten days or so to see if it makes a difference.

good luck

It started about 2 weeks ago, and I am scared out of my mind think its a tumor or something.

I've had this dull ache in the back of my neck for the past 2 weeks and it spreads all throughout my head.
I have:
-slight nausea, not bad enough to immediately throw up, but the feeling is always there
-loss of appetite
-finding it harder to concentrate on reading/watching stuff
-an ache in my neck
-heavy head, foggy feeling

I haven't been to the doctor, but all these symptoms just POPPED out of nowhere; I'm a pretty active person, and this kills me because it feels like a normal life is gone. :'(

Find another doctor. Just because your calcium was normal during one blood test does not mean you do not have parathyroid disease. Blood calcium fluxtuates minute by minute within the body. If your PTH was high on both tests I'm very surprised your doctor ruled this out. You should be seeing an endocrinologist, and even then make sure they are experienced dealing with parathyroid issues. Most endocrinologist mainly deal with thyroid and diabetes, with around only 5% of their patients having parathyroid issues. I completely understand what you're going through, as I have been dealing with this for almost 8 years, having seen 3 different endocrinologist, given a diagnosis all 3 times of parathyroid disease and refered to 2 different surgeons, only to have the surgeons, who are NOT the parathyroid specialist, go back and tell the endocrinologist that THEY don't think it's parathyroid disease because of a negative sestamibi scan, despite the fact most facilities do not do the scans correctly and my own mother was diagnosed with an adenoma on all 4 parathyroids.
Please check out the web site parathyroid.com/. I think you'll find a connection with most of the material on this site.

Google aspartame poisoning.

2 years ago my husband experienced most of the same symptoms you all are describing: dizziness, vertigo, debilitating headaches, muscle aches (especially in the head, shoulders & neck), pain behind his eyes, brain fog & "heavy head" feeling. He could barely function, which lead to frustration and depression. Doctors diagnosed him with everything from inner ear and sinus infections to TMJ, to Mysthenia Gravis (a degenerative eye muscle disease). None of the meds they tried really helped.

Before one of his dental exams, I asked him to ask the dentist about TMJ (since that is what we thought he had at the time). She ended up taking a full round of xrays to confirm that diagnosis, and surprise surprise - his wisdom teeth had not come down as normal wisdom teeth should, but instead had grown UPWARD and punctured his sinus cavity. Since the sinus/inner ear pathways are connected, she believed it was causing his vertigo and general head pain. He got his wisdom teeth out a week later and the symptoms all but vanished.

Moral of the story - believe it or not, consider talking to your DENTIST about these symptoms!