gregsmithhhhhhh
10-21-2013, 10:54 PM
I joined this suddenly a couple nights ago and never really gave a background, so anyways hi I'm Greg! I'm 20 from MA, college student.
I've been sort of a hypochondriac ever since I knew about diseases or at least that's what it feels like. In sixth grade I had lyme disease which was treated about as early as it could have been treated. Ever since then, however, I have been afraid of serious disease. Like very afraid. Just knowing how random getting a deadly disease can be is scary. I convinced myself as early as middle school that I had ALS because the anxiety caused me to twitch. After that anxiety subsided, I did not have any major scares until junior year of high school. I began experiencing what felt like a skipped heartbeat, and the doctor ran an ekg, which showed an abnormal reading, which FREAKED ME OUT. After further testing and a load of stress, and even being pulled off the soccer field in the middle of a game because of the results I got back that night, I was cleared and my doctor said I was healthy. After that the skipped beat went away for quite a bit, but I could, and still do hear my pulse in my ears under stress or sometimes physical exercise. I also have some ear ringing, and I can't really explain the symptoms I have had because I really have had it all.
Well, recently has been extremely stressful for me. During the summer I was completely fine, although I worked as much as 70 hours a week. I met a girl and things were going well. However, a few weeks ago the girl ended things and it was also in the middle of times when I was pulling all nighters because of schoolwork. To make matters worse, I noticed some gum recession that I am getting checked on tuesday. After I noticed that, things began to fall apart and I was up all night researching gum recession and basically making myself crazy. I began oil pulling which made my gums feel better, and since it is a detox, healing crisis will occur. Well, on friday I began to feel sick with body aches and vertigo. I thought I had mercury poisoning because of oil pulling with metal fillings. After that, I felt stressed and everything got worse as I acquired a fever, dry mouth, and further blurred vision. I was withdrawn at work and would pace back and forth because I was so nervous. I did not have any nasal congestion or sore throat, which actually concerned me, and today my sides began to hurt, furthering my mercury poisoning fears because of damage it causes to the kidneys. I had not planned to go to the doctors but one google search on the symptoms of kidney damage and I was quickly out the door. Urine and blood samples at the ER turned out fine, and after I got out I felt relieved and very good for a few hours. After losing a lot of sleep the past few nights I came back to nap and now that I've woken up I'm up late again and symptoms are returning, mainly twitching(mostly my upper legs) and body aches that are somewhat infrequent but range from my wrists to my chest to my head to around my left armpit(no swollen lymph nodes) to my neck and back. My vision is not back to normal either, and i noticed it is still jumpy..for example when I read this it is not a fluid motion in my eyes. Rather my eyes seem to jump from one word to another.
Even with blood and urine tests I still have myself convinced something may be wrong, but with all the stress I have gone through lately, could this all be in my head? Has anybody else experienced this? Or could it really be a virus even though I have no congestion or sore throat?
I've been sort of a hypochondriac ever since I knew about diseases or at least that's what it feels like. In sixth grade I had lyme disease which was treated about as early as it could have been treated. Ever since then, however, I have been afraid of serious disease. Like very afraid. Just knowing how random getting a deadly disease can be is scary. I convinced myself as early as middle school that I had ALS because the anxiety caused me to twitch. After that anxiety subsided, I did not have any major scares until junior year of high school. I began experiencing what felt like a skipped heartbeat, and the doctor ran an ekg, which showed an abnormal reading, which FREAKED ME OUT. After further testing and a load of stress, and even being pulled off the soccer field in the middle of a game because of the results I got back that night, I was cleared and my doctor said I was healthy. After that the skipped beat went away for quite a bit, but I could, and still do hear my pulse in my ears under stress or sometimes physical exercise. I also have some ear ringing, and I can't really explain the symptoms I have had because I really have had it all.
Well, recently has been extremely stressful for me. During the summer I was completely fine, although I worked as much as 70 hours a week. I met a girl and things were going well. However, a few weeks ago the girl ended things and it was also in the middle of times when I was pulling all nighters because of schoolwork. To make matters worse, I noticed some gum recession that I am getting checked on tuesday. After I noticed that, things began to fall apart and I was up all night researching gum recession and basically making myself crazy. I began oil pulling which made my gums feel better, and since it is a detox, healing crisis will occur. Well, on friday I began to feel sick with body aches and vertigo. I thought I had mercury poisoning because of oil pulling with metal fillings. After that, I felt stressed and everything got worse as I acquired a fever, dry mouth, and further blurred vision. I was withdrawn at work and would pace back and forth because I was so nervous. I did not have any nasal congestion or sore throat, which actually concerned me, and today my sides began to hurt, furthering my mercury poisoning fears because of damage it causes to the kidneys. I had not planned to go to the doctors but one google search on the symptoms of kidney damage and I was quickly out the door. Urine and blood samples at the ER turned out fine, and after I got out I felt relieved and very good for a few hours. After losing a lot of sleep the past few nights I came back to nap and now that I've woken up I'm up late again and symptoms are returning, mainly twitching(mostly my upper legs) and body aches that are somewhat infrequent but range from my wrists to my chest to my head to around my left armpit(no swollen lymph nodes) to my neck and back. My vision is not back to normal either, and i noticed it is still jumpy..for example when I read this it is not a fluid motion in my eyes. Rather my eyes seem to jump from one word to another.
Even with blood and urine tests I still have myself convinced something may be wrong, but with all the stress I have gone through lately, could this all be in my head? Has anybody else experienced this? Or could it really be a virus even though I have no congestion or sore throat?