Greetings... I am on what appears to be an eternal quest to figure out what exactly is going on in my body, and how to fix it. For 7 years I have bobbed around from Dr. to Dr. and from diagnosis to diagnosis (all of which ended up being incomplete), ultimately leaving me on my own to figure things out.
The closest thing I can come to is either Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue, or Myofascial Pain Syndrome, Candida, and ??? Seems like I may have a lot of different things going on, but I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY MY BODY JUST WONT **HEAL** LIKE IT IS SUPPOSED TO!!!! :-( Can anyone please help to cut through the fog of confusion and suffering? I am only 30 years old, and have been suffering for too long!! I am SO TIRED of Drs not knowing what to tell me, cramming a million pills in my face, and taking all my money and in return getting nothing besides frustration and side effects. Overall it seems as if my immune system is essentially just not functioning. My body should have healed by now. I am only 30. It feels like something SYSTEMIC is sapping my energy and hampering my immune system... BUT WHAT IS IT!?!?!?!?!? Here's what is going on with me: MUSCLE PAIN / WEAKNESS: My muscles hurt when I use them, specifically my shoulders, neck and arms. And I am talking about light use - like reading some magazines or driving for 30 min. I was in some fairly severe rear-ending car accidents in my earlier years, so theoretically this could be causing some of my muscle pain/weakness all these years later? Myofascial Pain Syndrome? Fibromyalgia? ENERGY: My energy levels are also at an all time low - it is as if my "chi" or life force is just COMPLETELY DRAINED. Hard to describe, but my "life energy" feels like it is not even there at all. No excitement, no happiness, no creative drive, no ANYTHING. I feel like a walking husk, like everything has just gone flat line. Is this what Chronic Fatigue feels like? ANXIETY: I have a LOT of anxiety that appears to come from a biochemical / biological level. In other words, I don't get all worked up about something and thus experience anxiety. Quite the opposite: it's a nice day, I am in a good mood, yet I have twisting, nervous anxiety running through my system. Frustrating and hard to deal with to say the least. LIBIDO: My libido has never been so low in my life - it as if it is non-existent. BRAIN FOG: When I eat sugars or alcohol, I get the dreaded brain fog that Candida and Fibromyalgia sufferers experience. This leads me to think that I have Candida at a bare minimum. DARK CIRCLES UNDER EYES: These vary in intensity, but are always there to the point that people often comment with things like "wow, you look tired!" or "wow, you look terrible! Get some sleep!" etc etc etc. and it is not only very frustrating, but also very embarrassing and self-esteem sapping. WHEAT SENSITIVITY: When I eat wheat (like the amount in an order of tempura shrimp), I get upper extremity muscle pain, and very uncomfortable anxiety that almost seems to come from a nervous system level. Hard to explain but it as if someone is sticking a fork in my whole nervous system and just twisting. Very uncomfortable, and usually is accompanied by stomach upset/nausea. ALLERGIES / CHEMICAL SENSITIVITIES: I am sensitive to many fragrances, detergents, etc so avoid all those, but also have problems with dust mites, diesel smoke, etc. If I eat food that was wrapped in certain types of Saran (PVC) wrap, I break out in hives. This was recently discovered to be a sensitivity to phthalates which are chemicals put into some plastics to soften them. See http://www.calisafe.org/_disc1/00000066.htm and http://www.jobwerx.com/news/Archives/plastics_biz-id=947140_529.html for more info on phthalates. _jason_ _________ ________ _______ _____ ____ ___ __ _ _ _ -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
