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Always feel bad but medical tests always normal

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Hi I have this problem where I always feel unwell. Nausea, dizziness, headaches (especially at the back/top of the head), and I get this awful tiredness that makes me feel like I’ll fall over.

All this sounds bad, it IS bad but can’t be too life threatening as I have been to and fro the GP surgery and hospital for blood work, scans and tests, and despite how bad these symptoms present with me nothing ever shows up! Sometimes I feel like I’m going crazy and imagining it all but when it happens and the symptoms are at their worst I am reminded that it is all very real and as unpleasant as it sounds.

I am anxious and because of the autism I do suffer with sensitivity, and I am sure this doesn’t help matters. What I’m struggling with is that the GP couldn’t find anything and for that reason there is seemingly no help with these problems. So when it happens I have no good ways of alleviating the dreaded symptoms. It’s much a case of put up, shut up, wait for it to improve which it normally does after a couple of hours. A good nights sleep always helps, in the morning I feel a lot better, not perfect but I do feel better. I never feel completely refreshed after sleeping but I at least don’t have that nagging exhaustion that hangs on to me for dear life.

If anybody else here suffers from this, or some of what I have explained, please let me know how you cope with it. I am at a loss and have found this affects me every single day! Not every day is severe but every day is bad enough that I had to quit work – they were going to let me go anyway – and I can no longer be as physically active like I used to be. Not without it crippling me with the symptoms I mentioned.

If you’ve experienced this and have any tips please let me know.

Thank you!

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  • Thank you all for your kind replies on this matter. I apologise for asking for medical advice, last time I was here it wasn’t against the rules to ask for advice on health related issues. Personally I wish they hadn’t brought in this new rule r.e. health advice as many of us found it a comfort to ask others advice here, still those are the rules now and I will follow them.

    Thank you for your help all the same. Sharing your own experiences has helped me and I appreciate your time, your words and your kindness. I think for me it is all down to anxiety. At one point I suffered with social anxiety but over the last couple of years that turned in to GAD “generalized anxiety disorder” and I think this more than anything else is responsible for my health complaints, it never ceases to amaze me how anxiety can manifest itself so deeply that it presents as seemingly serious ailments. I’m always on edge. Always feeling hyper and very stressed, usually along with the symptoms I mentioned, or they tend to appear shortly after the bout of stress.

    I’ll be returning to the GP soon as I still get affected by my symptoms regularly and it’s debilitating in so many ways. Even if they can’t fix this I am hoping they can offer some resources on how to cope with the symptoms. Sometimes it’s so bad I just burst in to tears.

    I feel better having read your replies and once more, I thank you for taking the time to help.

    AND SORRY AGAIN FOR ASKING FOR MEDICAL ADVICE

    Yours,
    Niblets.

  • in reply to Deleted User

    Please do not feel bad for asking a question of your kin and peers here.  Like you say, it was the "bread and butter" content of this place when I first came here......and people helped each other without fear or favour.

    I was personally helped and supported ENOMORMOUSLY by other members here when I first arrived.

  • in reply to Number

    Thank you Number and Overwhelmed and Underwhelmed, I appreciate that.

    It concerns me a little that this rule has been put in place. I get why it’s now a rule but at the same time, this forum is exclusively for adults (18+) and I would have thought we should be trusted to ensure we have the common sense to know what advice to follow and what not to follow. Like if someone said to drink acid or do something dangerous, well you just wouldn’t, would you? I never remember anybody coming to any harm last time I was here.

    We all know right from wrong and don’t believe any of us would do something that might endanger ourselves. If advice wasn’t good you would surely still say thank you for the member taking time to help out but know that you shouldn’t do what was advised.

    Last time I was here I remember many members came here for advice because they were too anxious to visit the GP. One I remember had a swollen tonsil but was too scared to go, and after talking here she eventually went to the GP because people helped her. For some this community was that Cry On The Shoulder and Listening Ear that they needed. It worries me now that those types of autists can no longer come here and share what’s playing on their mind regarding health, be it physical or mental health.

    I will be mindful in the future to not post about health concerns, I don’t wish to get in trouble nor get anybody else into trouble either.

    Thank you again for replying my NAS friends.

  • in reply to Deleted User
    Unknown said:
    Discussion and dialogue - here - with real people - has helped massively over the years. More so than discussions with the vast majority of health services and information on official channels

    Ditto.

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  • in reply to Deleted User
    Unknown said:
    Discussion and dialogue - here - with real people - has helped massively over the years. More so than discussions with the vast majority of health services and information on official channels

    Ditto.

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