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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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  • OK - So, just to be CRYSTAL clear, the following is NOT MEDICAL ADVICE, it is merely a select summary of LIFE ADVICE based on my experience.

    I decided not to "cope with" nor "put up with" the problems that I was experiencing.  Like you, I sensibly did seek medical advice in the first instance, but when that proved (lets say) fruitless, I doubled-down using my own inherent skills - ie, I'm autistic!

    In short, this simply involved me paying VERY careful and concious attention to when, and how, I was feeling at various points in my day.....each and every day.  This sounds like a trite and dumb thing to suggest, but it is actually quite difficult to do, unless you are VERY concious, and "in the moment" when you try to assess your mood, feelings and "generalised health" at any given moment.......in those "self-assessment moments" you need to be aware of the context of your surroundings and activities (a..current b...recently past c...impending.)

    It took me MANY months to work out the various triggers and situations that made me feel OK, better or worse.  There is no point in going into the details of my personal findings, because yours WILL be different to mine.

    So - my tip - is to pay VERY careful and conscious attention to how you feel at multiple points in the day, over multiple days, weeks and months.  This allowed me to identify clear and distinct "problems" in my life, that I was able to carefully "prune-out" over a period of time, and I found that most/many of my "symptoms" abated.  I discovered that my problems were not medical in nature, but FAR FAR more complicated and nuanced....and when I had come to understand them, I was able to improve my health.

    I wish you the best of luck Niblets, on your quest for a happier and healthier disposition.

    Yours

    Number.

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  • OK - So, just to be CRYSTAL clear, the following is NOT MEDICAL ADVICE, it is merely a select summary of LIFE ADVICE based on my experience.

    I decided not to "cope with" nor "put up with" the problems that I was experiencing.  Like you, I sensibly did seek medical advice in the first instance, but when that proved (lets say) fruitless, I doubled-down using my own inherent skills - ie, I'm autistic!

    In short, this simply involved me paying VERY careful and concious attention to when, and how, I was feeling at various points in my day.....each and every day.  This sounds like a trite and dumb thing to suggest, but it is actually quite difficult to do, unless you are VERY concious, and "in the moment" when you try to assess your mood, feelings and "generalised health" at any given moment.......in those "self-assessment moments" you need to be aware of the context of your surroundings and activities (a..current b...recently past c...impending.)

    It took me MANY months to work out the various triggers and situations that made me feel OK, better or worse.  There is no point in going into the details of my personal findings, because yours WILL be different to mine.

    So - my tip - is to pay VERY careful and conscious attention to how you feel at multiple points in the day, over multiple days, weeks and months.  This allowed me to identify clear and distinct "problems" in my life, that I was able to carefully "prune-out" over a period of time, and I found that most/many of my "symptoms" abated.  I discovered that my problems were not medical in nature, but FAR FAR more complicated and nuanced....and when I had come to understand them, I was able to improve my health.

    I wish you the best of luck Niblets, on your quest for a happier and healthier disposition.

    Yours

    Number.

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