QuidEstVeritas
08-26-2012, 08:23 PM
Hello everyone,
I suppose this will get quite long so please bear with me. I'm going to go off on a tangent of what seems to be irrelevant information because I want to take this back to the beginning. I'm trying to see if there's something that triggered the problems I'm having now that can be found in the recent adventures of my life.
So... I'm an 18 year old male (turned 18 since the 11th of this month) and graduated from high school very recently. I'll be headed off to college in the fall, and I seem to know what I'm going to do with my life. I decided I want to go into the business field. More specifically, I want to work on marketing. I'm really interested in starting my own business one day and becoming very successful. That's all fair and good. All of my life I've been blessed with good health (no history of health problems other than eczema in my childhood) and people see me as someone intelligent and someone who's very polite. The rest of my family also (as far as I know of) has relatively good health.
Yet..
All of a sudden everything seems to be falling apart all at once. You see, this all appears to have manifested itself as a long, drawn out process. Some days (or a week or so) prior to graduation, something strange had happened to me. Rewind to a weekend in early June. My mother had bought a rug to put under the kitchen table. That same day, prompted by boredom (with a side of stupidity) I decided to see if I was still flexible enough to reach my leg high. To test my flexibility, I stretched my leg over the kitchen counter. No problems there. Later that day my mother had come home with the rug and she had me help her move the table so that the rug could be placed. From this point on, I have no idea what happened, but still later that evening, when I was sitting in my computer chair, I started to feel a strange soreness around my right pelvic area. As a matter of fact, preceding the soreness, I felt a sharp pain shoot down my leg to my knee when I shifted around in my computer chair. That hurt a great deal but the pain experienced from that subsided very quickly and within a few seconds it was gone. It was an odd experience but I haven't had it happen since. Anyways, I would describe the soreness as being at the top of the hip bone more towards the right I thought this was strange as I didn't feel as though I pulled a muscle at the time of my stretches and had no pain at the time of the stretching.. This soreness was far from severe yet mild enough to cause me to worry. So then I decided to research what my condition possibly could be on the internet. I read several things that really and deeply worried me. What I read everywhere led me to believe I had appendicitis. I was so worried and became very unsettled and afraid to die. I went to the doctor to find out what had happened to me. Fast forward the next day.. The doctor at the urgent care clinic sees me and examines my symptoms. He presses on all areas of the right side of my stomach to ratify or refute the possibility of appendicitis. After his very hard presses on the right side of my stomach, he determined without a shadow of a doubt that I did not have appendicitis. But still, the real cause of the problem remained a mystery. The doctor ordered a test of my urine and with that there was found to be nothing wrong with my urine. More confusion ensues. The doctor then orders that I do an ultrasound of the abdomen to find out what was really going on. Due to the fact that I was preparing for my graduation, I had to postpone the ultrasound until about a week or so after. Anyways, after taking the ultrasound, they found out exactly what was wrong with my insides: nothing. The only thing remarkable is that I was told I had a fatty liver: something I had already heard before. After seeing a different doctor in the Urgent Care clinic (because it is, after all, a walk in clinic so it's not likely I'll see the same doctors all the time) and having had him review the results of my ultrasound and what I had told the other doctor, he attributed my discomfort to a muscular problem and prescribed Naproxen to me.
Now let us again fast forward a few weeks to where the most action takes place.
It's been about a week or 2 since I went to see the doctor at the Urgent Care. After taking the Naproxen, I began to realize 2 things: a) Naproxen constipates me and; b) It did not do anything for the soreness in my pelvis so I stopped taking it. What's worse is that the soreness at the front of my pelvis started to move around!! Yes, every week the soreness seemed to change places and move. During the first week or so of the soreness, it was located in the right pelvic area where it started. Then after a week or so I started feeling soreness more towards the right side of my body. That was weird and it lasted for about a week or so. Then the soreness seemed to move again after maybe less than a week more towards the right side of my back. I'd also like to mention that each day the soreness seemed to move from spot to spot, but never back to its original location. It seemed to switch back and forth from being on my right side to being at my right back. How insane... but still the plot thickens.
Let's now travel to July 23rd. I've been to my actual doctor since then and told him about what happened to me. He as well attributed my problems as being muscular and hypothesized that it was a pulled muscle. However, discussing what happened to me isn't why I went to see him. Actually, I had (and still have) have a problem with my lips. Ever since around March, my lips have become discolored and have turned a brownish color. I don't believe this is anything serious though, as I do recall my lips being very dry around that period and me not using anything to moisturize them and just licking them a lot. So I believe my lips are probably just damaged by the sun, but nothing serious. Anyways, because of this my doctor sent me to do some blood work so that he could send me off to a dermatologist. The result of my blood test was normal, except that I had low iron. Fine. However.. Before I went to see my doctor and the same day I took the blood test I noticed something strange. I felt a sort of tightness in my chest that didn't seem to go away. So when my mother came home from work I told her about this and she believed it to be acid reflux and told me to take 2 Gaviscon tablets. Amazingly enough, they worked and I didn't feel the chest tightness for the rest of the day.. Fast forward to the next day and I have a nice glass of orange juice and the chest tightness returns. So I thought to myself that I foolishly re-triggered this acid reflux in me and decided to take the 2 Gaviscon again. Funnily enough, they did nothing. A few hours later I tried another OTC drug for it: Alkaseltzer. This also did nothing. I tried a whole bunch of other OTC drugs and they also did nothing at all. This led me to believe that my problem wasn't really acid reflux. Over the course of a few weeks, I decided to test my theory that it wasn't acid reflux by eating a variety of foods: spicy, orange juice, tomatoes, ketchup, etc. All things that are supposed to cause acid reflux. I noticed no change whatsoever in the chest tightness and during the times of the day where it would subside, no difference would be made then either. Nothing I did would make the tightness better or worse. What's interesting to take note of is the fact that this tightness would go away after I have been rested for a long period of time. Every morning after I woke up I would feel fine but shortly after when I started to move around I would experience the tightness again. But when I leave the house the tightness seems to go away or I just forget about it.. Weird.
Anyways, ow my problems seem to be multiplying. I recently found out that I had a small cavity even though I've lived my life before with NONE whatsoever, I started to get sick with a bad cold recently and I feel as though muscles in my foot are sore as well. What the hell is going on with me? Is this anxiety? Am I going crazy? Am I imagining these symptoms? The doctor's tests show nothing wrong with me and yet I still experience these sensations. I just don't get it.. But when I leave the house I usually don't feel my symptoms as much or they just disappear completely until I'm back at home! What is this? Is it because I tend to stay at home in my basement playing video games all day and don't hang out with the "friends" who've abandoned me? Towards the end of my high school career they all began to turn on me in ways unimaginable. They wouldn't ever actually reject me, but it became obvious to them that I wasn't like them and I slowly became alienated from them. Now I don't talk to any of them at all.
I suppose this will get quite long so please bear with me. I'm going to go off on a tangent of what seems to be irrelevant information because I want to take this back to the beginning. I'm trying to see if there's something that triggered the problems I'm having now that can be found in the recent adventures of my life.
So... I'm an 18 year old male (turned 18 since the 11th of this month) and graduated from high school very recently. I'll be headed off to college in the fall, and I seem to know what I'm going to do with my life. I decided I want to go into the business field. More specifically, I want to work on marketing. I'm really interested in starting my own business one day and becoming very successful. That's all fair and good. All of my life I've been blessed with good health (no history of health problems other than eczema in my childhood) and people see me as someone intelligent and someone who's very polite. The rest of my family also (as far as I know of) has relatively good health.
Yet..
All of a sudden everything seems to be falling apart all at once. You see, this all appears to have manifested itself as a long, drawn out process. Some days (or a week or so) prior to graduation, something strange had happened to me. Rewind to a weekend in early June. My mother had bought a rug to put under the kitchen table. That same day, prompted by boredom (with a side of stupidity) I decided to see if I was still flexible enough to reach my leg high. To test my flexibility, I stretched my leg over the kitchen counter. No problems there. Later that day my mother had come home with the rug and she had me help her move the table so that the rug could be placed. From this point on, I have no idea what happened, but still later that evening, when I was sitting in my computer chair, I started to feel a strange soreness around my right pelvic area. As a matter of fact, preceding the soreness, I felt a sharp pain shoot down my leg to my knee when I shifted around in my computer chair. That hurt a great deal but the pain experienced from that subsided very quickly and within a few seconds it was gone. It was an odd experience but I haven't had it happen since. Anyways, I would describe the soreness as being at the top of the hip bone more towards the right I thought this was strange as I didn't feel as though I pulled a muscle at the time of my stretches and had no pain at the time of the stretching.. This soreness was far from severe yet mild enough to cause me to worry. So then I decided to research what my condition possibly could be on the internet. I read several things that really and deeply worried me. What I read everywhere led me to believe I had appendicitis. I was so worried and became very unsettled and afraid to die. I went to the doctor to find out what had happened to me. Fast forward the next day.. The doctor at the urgent care clinic sees me and examines my symptoms. He presses on all areas of the right side of my stomach to ratify or refute the possibility of appendicitis. After his very hard presses on the right side of my stomach, he determined without a shadow of a doubt that I did not have appendicitis. But still, the real cause of the problem remained a mystery. The doctor ordered a test of my urine and with that there was found to be nothing wrong with my urine. More confusion ensues. The doctor then orders that I do an ultrasound of the abdomen to find out what was really going on. Due to the fact that I was preparing for my graduation, I had to postpone the ultrasound until about a week or so after. Anyways, after taking the ultrasound, they found out exactly what was wrong with my insides: nothing. The only thing remarkable is that I was told I had a fatty liver: something I had already heard before. After seeing a different doctor in the Urgent Care clinic (because it is, after all, a walk in clinic so it's not likely I'll see the same doctors all the time) and having had him review the results of my ultrasound and what I had told the other doctor, he attributed my discomfort to a muscular problem and prescribed Naproxen to me.
Now let us again fast forward a few weeks to where the most action takes place.
It's been about a week or 2 since I went to see the doctor at the Urgent Care. After taking the Naproxen, I began to realize 2 things: a) Naproxen constipates me and; b) It did not do anything for the soreness in my pelvis so I stopped taking it. What's worse is that the soreness at the front of my pelvis started to move around!! Yes, every week the soreness seemed to change places and move. During the first week or so of the soreness, it was located in the right pelvic area where it started. Then after a week or so I started feeling soreness more towards the right side of my body. That was weird and it lasted for about a week or so. Then the soreness seemed to move again after maybe less than a week more towards the right side of my back. I'd also like to mention that each day the soreness seemed to move from spot to spot, but never back to its original location. It seemed to switch back and forth from being on my right side to being at my right back. How insane... but still the plot thickens.
Let's now travel to July 23rd. I've been to my actual doctor since then and told him about what happened to me. He as well attributed my problems as being muscular and hypothesized that it was a pulled muscle. However, discussing what happened to me isn't why I went to see him. Actually, I had (and still have) have a problem with my lips. Ever since around March, my lips have become discolored and have turned a brownish color. I don't believe this is anything serious though, as I do recall my lips being very dry around that period and me not using anything to moisturize them and just licking them a lot. So I believe my lips are probably just damaged by the sun, but nothing serious. Anyways, because of this my doctor sent me to do some blood work so that he could send me off to a dermatologist. The result of my blood test was normal, except that I had low iron. Fine. However.. Before I went to see my doctor and the same day I took the blood test I noticed something strange. I felt a sort of tightness in my chest that didn't seem to go away. So when my mother came home from work I told her about this and she believed it to be acid reflux and told me to take 2 Gaviscon tablets. Amazingly enough, they worked and I didn't feel the chest tightness for the rest of the day.. Fast forward to the next day and I have a nice glass of orange juice and the chest tightness returns. So I thought to myself that I foolishly re-triggered this acid reflux in me and decided to take the 2 Gaviscon again. Funnily enough, they did nothing. A few hours later I tried another OTC drug for it: Alkaseltzer. This also did nothing. I tried a whole bunch of other OTC drugs and they also did nothing at all. This led me to believe that my problem wasn't really acid reflux. Over the course of a few weeks, I decided to test my theory that it wasn't acid reflux by eating a variety of foods: spicy, orange juice, tomatoes, ketchup, etc. All things that are supposed to cause acid reflux. I noticed no change whatsoever in the chest tightness and during the times of the day where it would subside, no difference would be made then either. Nothing I did would make the tightness better or worse. What's interesting to take note of is the fact that this tightness would go away after I have been rested for a long period of time. Every morning after I woke up I would feel fine but shortly after when I started to move around I would experience the tightness again. But when I leave the house the tightness seems to go away or I just forget about it.. Weird.
Anyways, ow my problems seem to be multiplying. I recently found out that I had a small cavity even though I've lived my life before with NONE whatsoever, I started to get sick with a bad cold recently and I feel as though muscles in my foot are sore as well. What the hell is going on with me? Is this anxiety? Am I going crazy? Am I imagining these symptoms? The doctor's tests show nothing wrong with me and yet I still experience these sensations. I just don't get it.. But when I leave the house I usually don't feel my symptoms as much or they just disappear completely until I'm back at home! What is this? Is it because I tend to stay at home in my basement playing video games all day and don't hang out with the "friends" who've abandoned me? Towards the end of my high school career they all began to turn on me in ways unimaginable. They wouldn't ever actually reject me, but it became obvious to them that I wasn't like them and I slowly became alienated from them. Now I don't talk to any of them at all.