Question About My Health?
Question by Patrick: Question about my health?
I’m extremely worried there’s something terribly wrong with me. I’m a 17 year old male. I don’t smoke or drink. My parents are from Ireland and they’re extremely healthy both near 50 years old and all my grandparents are alive except one who died 4 years ago at the age of 84. The only physical illness that runs in my family is diabetes– my granfather in Ireland has this. There’s no history of cancer, heart problems or anything in my family.
Let me say a few things about myself as well. I go to bed very late. Sometimes I don’t go to bed at all– insomnia from anxiety and depression. I’m 6’5″ and usually all I eat in the morning is a bowl of cheerios… if even. I don’t eat lunch, instead I come home from school at 2:30 PM and either eat fast food or make a sandwich at my house. I eat dinner around 5 PM and then snack consistently until around 10 PM. I never exercise… Occasionally I go on a walk or walk home from school but I DON’T play any sports or anything. I have bad posture and I often sit in front of the computer for like 2 hours hunching forward straining my neck. I never drink water. All of these poor habits have enver bothered me before so I don’t see why they would bother me suddenly. All my “symptoms” have happened only after two bad anxiety attacks in which I went to the hospital at 2 AM in fear of having a heart attack.
Yet after I had two anxiety attacks I’ve been having symptoms that are REALLY bothering me. I’ll show you what I did today and how I feel today.
I stayed up till about 1 AM last night (I stayed up all night the night before) and woke up at 1 PM today… Got up, took a shower, put my clothes on, ate one bowl of oatmeal, and went out with my friend. I usually have this weird discomfort in the back of my head/top of my neck but it was gone today and I think this is probably because I used a more supportive pillow. I woke up with a headache as usual though. It went away like an hour after I woke up. Anyway I was feeling pretty good till I got to the town centre with my friend after walking half a mile. I started feeling vertigo but it quickly subsided. Then I felt good walking around town till I started walking home by myself. By the time I sat down at home I was exhausted and when I moved my arms they felt very heavy and felt like they were moving slow or something. Then I tok a bowel movement and it was very odd…. It was palish, and looked like a bunch of rocks lumped together– could this be from the oatmeal?
I just normally get headaches, a vertigo-like feeling, neck stiffness, muscles aore all over my body, fatigue, constantly hungry, dry skin, occasional dry mouth, I feel like I’m going to pass out after standing up after getting comfortable in a chair, and urine seems like it smells. I feel more dizzy and the headache gets worse when I move my eyes.
Sometimes when I get very little sleep my heart starts fluttering and there’s pain there– but I know this is from anxiety because the doctor told me and my EKG is completely normal and whenever I calm down or get more sleep it goes away. Yet the other symptoms are constantly there.
I live in a pretty high altitude ear Los Angeles. Wheneve rI go up into the mountains my ears pop on the way up… But living in a high altitude has never bothered me before so I don’t think that could be causing this right now.
The symptoms seem to get worse when I hear loud noises like practicing with my band.
I had a blood test and urinalysis and a check-up with the doctor like a month ago and everything was normal and the doc said there is nothing seriosuly wrong with me. She says it’s all anxiety/stress/depression.
I honeslty don’t understand how emotional problems could cause so many physical problems though.
My symptoms get worse when I think about having a serious illness….
Could I just be dehydrated? Could it be diabetes (my grandather has this.) Could I be anemic?
What the hell is causing all this. It doesn’t disrupt my life biut it’s just annoying and it scares me that I have some serious illness.
Oh my god, as I said before I’ve always had these habits for like the pst two years. They’ve never bothered me so why would they suddenly start causing all these symptoms in the last month or two?
Even when I do exercise and get sleep and eat I still feel these symptoms.
ScorpioR… – I never had a bowel movement like that before. It just happened for the first time and I’m pretty sure it’s because I ate a huge bowl of oatmeal and nothing else.
I’m 6’5″ and 170 pounds.
Best answer:
Answer by Jennifer
you say you dont excercise or drink water, n you play on the computer for hours at a time..barely eat..never sleep…and you are seriously going to ask what’s causing that??
obviously, you need to stop wasting time on Yahoo!answers and see a doctor. and start excersizing!!
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