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I get weird random pains or odd stuff happening sometimes. It never lasts more than a day and it never happens often all that often or seems connected in a way to make me worry. Some of the stuff repeats though and yesterday and today it was driving me crazy. I know you guys aren't doctors and even if you were, this is over the internet. Just looking to vent mainly.
To start off, yes sometimes I do go see the doctor for this stuff. It almost always ends with me being very frustrated. I was on ADD meds from early elementry school to the end of high school/into the first year of college. Sometime during middle school I also got on depression medication which I stopped taking around the same time. Later, once I had insurance again, I tried to get back onto ADD medication. My doctor didn't want to listen and told me that it was all anxiety (he had not been my doctor while I was on either medication nor had he met me more than once or twice) and wouldn't budge. I managed to finally get on it through another doctor and have since switched my prescription over to my main doctor.
I've had breathing problems. I vaguely remember having problems once or twice when I was younger. Nothing more than shortness of breath really. Around 2003 or 2004, we had a really high pollen count I guess and all of a sudden, I started having breathing problems again. Still nothing more than shortness of breath usually but it would sometimes make me a bit dizzy when I got frustrated with it. Again, I was told this was anxiety. While I will admit that a couple of times, it has probably been a panic attack, I honestly don't believe that the other times were. I've tried talking to my mom about it since she's a nurse, but every year she has a different theory. It usually goes along the lines of "Oh, I have that problem too and here's why and what I do about it." Only the why and what change each time and her solutions never help. I've been tested for athsma but that came up negative. I'm horrible about noticing coorrilations though so I can't figure out if it's a weather thing or something else maybe.
I was having pain in my thumb that was radiating out into my hand. The doctor I saw about that listened to what I had to say and only heard the part about me popping my fingers. She decided it was the only cause and that was that. It turned out though, that I have carpal tunnel and while popping my thumbs seems to make it worse, not popping the rest of my fingers also makes it worse and causes pain. I learned this when I tried to stop and got to deal with a month of pain in my knuckles that lead to flair ups of the arm pain.
The weird one is my nose. Every so often it will just start itching. No amount of scratching will make it stop. The closest thing I can compare it to is when you have contact with fiberglass. Not the sharp pain, but that itching that just won't go away and is just out of reach under the skin kind of. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing ends the itching except for time. It doesn't happen often enough for me to see someone about it and I know it wouldn't do much good unless I could see a doctor while it was happening. Even then I don't know that it would help.
Since I've started on the ADD medication, occationally I get dry mouth. It's not too bad for the most part. Usually I just drink some water and it goes away. Usually I don't get it except for mid day as well because by about 5 or so my meds have worn off and any side effects go away. Last night after dinner though, around 6 or 7, I got it again only it was persistant. It would stay in that part of the roof of your mouth near the back, on the sides, just out of reach of the tongue and spread from there every time I stopped drinking water. It got to a point where I could stick to breathing out of my nose, but my tongue would still slowly start to feel...I guess claustraphobic might be the best way to describe it? Not like it was swelling but like it didn't have enough room despite everything being the same size. At the same time of course, my shortness of breath starts to kick in a little bit. The combination of the two made my throat (a little below the back) feel a little smaller. Sort of like a slightly puffy, dry feeling. Nothing really seemed to make the dry mouth go away and it wasn't long till my stomach hurt a bit too. Not sure if maybe my friend's mom might have been on to something when she said I might have a food allergy or not. Could be understanding that completely wrong though. And of course, today, the dry mouth has been back and the back of my throat is feeling funny again. Luckily my stomach is feeling mostly better. And no, I didn't go to the doctor last night for the simple reason that, after having breathing problems for so long, I've gotten used to telling when it's a problem and I'm getting more dizzy than just head rush from standing up level.
I'm just getting so tired of simply dealing with this stuff. It may end up being all I can do, who knows. Just grouchy about it is all. It doesn't help that my head's been hurting because I put off getting my glasses updated for too long. Luckily my appointment for that is later today.
To start off, yes sometimes I do go see the doctor for this stuff. It almost always ends with me being very frustrated. I was on ADD meds from early elementry school to the end of high school/into the first year of college. Sometime during middle school I also got on depression medication which I stopped taking around the same time. Later, once I had insurance again, I tried to get back onto ADD medication. My doctor didn't want to listen and told me that it was all anxiety (he had not been my doctor while I was on either medication nor had he met me more than once or twice) and wouldn't budge. I managed to finally get on it through another doctor and have since switched my prescription over to my main doctor.
I've had breathing problems. I vaguely remember having problems once or twice when I was younger. Nothing more than shortness of breath really. Around 2003 or 2004, we had a really high pollen count I guess and all of a sudden, I started having breathing problems again. Still nothing more than shortness of breath usually but it would sometimes make me a bit dizzy when I got frustrated with it. Again, I was told this was anxiety. While I will admit that a couple of times, it has probably been a panic attack, I honestly don't believe that the other times were. I've tried talking to my mom about it since she's a nurse, but every year she has a different theory. It usually goes along the lines of "Oh, I have that problem too and here's why and what I do about it." Only the why and what change each time and her solutions never help. I've been tested for athsma but that came up negative. I'm horrible about noticing coorrilations though so I can't figure out if it's a weather thing or something else maybe.
I was having pain in my thumb that was radiating out into my hand. The doctor I saw about that listened to what I had to say and only heard the part about me popping my fingers. She decided it was the only cause and that was that. It turned out though, that I have carpal tunnel and while popping my thumbs seems to make it worse, not popping the rest of my fingers also makes it worse and causes pain. I learned this when I tried to stop and got to deal with a month of pain in my knuckles that lead to flair ups of the arm pain.
The weird one is my nose. Every so often it will just start itching. No amount of scratching will make it stop. The closest thing I can compare it to is when you have contact with fiberglass. Not the sharp pain, but that itching that just won't go away and is just out of reach under the skin kind of. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing ends the itching except for time. It doesn't happen often enough for me to see someone about it and I know it wouldn't do much good unless I could see a doctor while it was happening. Even then I don't know that it would help.
Since I've started on the ADD medication, occationally I get dry mouth. It's not too bad for the most part. Usually I just drink some water and it goes away. Usually I don't get it except for mid day as well because by about 5 or so my meds have worn off and any side effects go away. Last night after dinner though, around 6 or 7, I got it again only it was persistant. It would stay in that part of the roof of your mouth near the back, on the sides, just out of reach of the tongue and spread from there every time I stopped drinking water. It got to a point where I could stick to breathing out of my nose, but my tongue would still slowly start to feel...I guess claustraphobic might be the best way to describe it? Not like it was swelling but like it didn't have enough room despite everything being the same size. At the same time of course, my shortness of breath starts to kick in a little bit. The combination of the two made my throat (a little below the back) feel a little smaller. Sort of like a slightly puffy, dry feeling. Nothing really seemed to make the dry mouth go away and it wasn't long till my stomach hurt a bit too. Not sure if maybe my friend's mom might have been on to something when she said I might have a food allergy or not. Could be understanding that completely wrong though. And of course, today, the dry mouth has been back and the back of my throat is feeling funny again. Luckily my stomach is feeling mostly better. And no, I didn't go to the doctor last night for the simple reason that, after having breathing problems for so long, I've gotten used to telling when it's a problem and I'm getting more dizzy than just head rush from standing up level.
I'm just getting so tired of simply dealing with this stuff. It may end up being all I can do, who knows. Just grouchy about it is all. It doesn't help that my head's been hurting because I put off getting my glasses updated for too long. Luckily my appointment for that is later today.
sorry I don't have any other thoughts. I don't think Altoids will work as well to stimulate the salivary glands as hard candy or Starlite mints will, though.
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