Weird Illness-like Thing
For the last couple of days, I've been feeling lightheaded and getting dizzy spells. I feel like I need to eat something all day, but when I eat I get very nauseous and end up with heartburn. I've been having hot flashes here and there, accompanied by the dizziness. It feels like I literally turn green, you know? Like all the blood drains out of my head, and my arms and legs get heavy.
No, I am not pregnant. I don't think I qualify for immaculate conception.
I don't think my diet has changed much recently.
I have been getting up much earlier than usual, but I've been going to bed early also. I'm getting a good 7-9 hours of sleep.
I just started back to college, and the weather outside is around 40 degrees while the classrooms must be at least 75 degrees. If the severe temperature change every hour and a half isn't the cause, it can't help. Damn old buildings.
Yes, I have been taking my vitamins. However, sometimes I wonder if they are making it worse. The vitamins always make me nauseous if I take them on an empty stomach, but I've been taking them after eating a bowl of oatmeal and a banana.
This has been going on for about 3 days, and I don't feel like I'm getting any better. I haven't actually thrown up yet, but I keep feeling like I will. It's not fun. Any ideas on what it could be or how to feel better faster?
Out here there is a stomach thing going around that depending on the stregth of your stomach you might get sick from or not. I had some dizziness and chills with it, but didn't really think anything about it until my hubby got sick, I thought it was the cold too. I also was hungry, but really didn't eat alot when I sat down. I eat alot of salty carb things when I feel like that. For me it makes me feel better. He was sicker I think because he's an omni and whenever he ate meat it made it worse, no meat, he felt fine.
I also can't take vitamins because they make me sick, so if I want to take one I take it at night before bed. Maybe try that and see how you feel.
Good Luck, I hope you feel better soon!
sorry, but too many odd ends, and yet not enough solid info, to offer anything more than speculation. could you perhaps stop by your campus health office in order to be seen by a nurse? or give your physician a call for further help?
g'luck! and hope you feel better!
~ fr
Are you more stressed than usual lately? Maybe it's extreme exhaustion /fatigue.... ?
I would just go to the doctor. It's really impossible for us to give you any meaningful feedback. It sounds like you've covered all the basic questions. If it doesn't go away, I'd go to the doctor right away.
Umm...does it burn/blood when you pee? Or do you pee a lot?Maybe you have a uti or kidney infection? I'm only asking because I"ve gotten this before and sometimes it's hard to diagnose..hope you fee l better.. You could see your doctor and they could do urine/blood testing to see what's up.... Good luck
Get your blood pressure checked. Could be stress, they will usually check your BP for free in a pharmacy. And blood glucose. Aren't you hypoglycemic? (I thought I read you said that somewhere). I used to be when I was younger and it sounds like a "spike" to me. Your glucose shoots up and then down again, lower than it was before.
How long is it since you've had a thorough physical? I know they're expensive in the US but they can reveal many things.
I'm not hypoglycemic that I know of, but I haven't been to the doctor in.... oh.... 3 years or so, and that was because I had chronic headaches.
They went away when I moved to Louisiana.
I also went once for what I thought was bronchitis, but that was actually asthma (which I didn't know I had) and allergies.
I guess if I'm not feeling better by Monday I'll go to the student health center. My heart rate does seem to shoot up when I do anything. Even feeding the cat makes me feel like I just jogged the length of my apartment complex. It just makes me so nervous because I very, very rarely get sick. If I do, it's usually just a cold.
I don't like to get sick. I also don't like to go to the doctor. They always seem so mean.
for what its worth, its been a really bad "sick season" this year...there has been alot of stomach stuff, especially, going around.
I hope you start feeling better soon. :-*
My first comment is to hope you feel better soon! Have the doc check you over.
Next, I would recommend you take your vitamins at night. After dinner and before bed so that should it make you nauseous you are asleep through it. Thats what I do and it seems to help out immensely.
Wow, ag! I can't believe you thought of me! That's so sweet!
I have eaten peanut butter, I eat it almost every day for lunch. We just got a new jar, though... and I don't know if I was feeling sick before or after we opened that one.
Hmm... something to keep in mind. Maybe I'll look up the symptoms for salmonella. I'm less dizzy today, and I don't get heartburn every time I eat... but I still feel very fatigued whenever I move. Pretty much if I move at all. It's so sad, I feel like I must weigh 400 lbs!
the PB brands that had salmonella are from two companies which dont sell to the public...they supply to schools only.
the PB brands that had salmonella are from two companies which dont sell to the public...they supply to schools only.
Charming! Learn about virulent food poisoning at school! Lab work available. >:(
the PB brands that had salmonella are from two companies which dont sell to the public...they supply to schools only.
I just read something about Kellogg's issuing a recall due to tainted salmonela peanut butter. I think it was the Keebler peanut butter crackers that were affected.
the PB brands that had salmonella are from two companies which dont sell to the public...they supply to schools only.
I just read something about Kellogg's issuing a recall due to tainted salmonela peanut butter. I think it was the Keebler peanut butter crackers that were affected.
Yeah, alot of more info came out last night after i posted, so ignore me. ::)
They are saying dont eat any peanut butter containing products.
I think we may have figured it out!
I am a bad vegetarian.
;D
No, but seriously, when I was in high school I used to complain of similar symptoms. I didn't remember because it's been like 10 years. My mom remembered, though. My boyfriend called her today after he stayed up until 2am worrying about me last night. I've been hearing my heartbeat in my head as if someone outside were hammering consistently in perfect rhythm for the past 3 days.
He looked up my symptoms on WebMD, and added "pale" because he said I have been looking green. Pretty, but green. I said "you are what you eat!"
::)
Anyway, it came up with like 5 kinds of anemia, and I said "Oh, yeah, I did have problems when I was younger. But I've been taking my supplements!"
Well, he called my mom and she's like "Oh, yeah. When she was 14 she was always "too tired" or "out of breath" or "dizzy" and I took her to the doctor because I thought she was making it up just to get out of housework. They did a blood test and it turned out she was anemic. How has she been eating lately?"
We've been totally broke lately, so I've been eating very few fresh veggies and fruits, and not combining what I was eating properly so the iron could be absorbed. I'm an idiot, I've been a bad vegetarian. I should have listened when my body said plain canned asparagus was good for dinner. Or when all I wanted in the world was an egg biscuit. That MEANS something.
So, today we are going to a deli with a huuuge salad bar, and I am eating a baked potato with an enormous salad, and orange juice. Then we're going grocery shopping without a budget and getting the proper foods. Because just because the last time my anemia reared its head was 10 years ago doesn't mean I shouldn't think about it.
I'm dumb. :-[
And now my mom will tell my family (thank goodness they're far away) that I am getting sick due to being vegetarian. Blah.
And now my mom will tell my family (thank goodness they're far away) that I am getting sick due to being vegetarian. Blah.
No, you will get better quicker because you are vegetarian.
Don't be so hard on yourself. When times are tough, we do what we have to.
I hope you feel better soon.
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:-*
You hear your heartbeat in your head? Eek.
If it were me, I would bypass trying to self-diagnose and just go get a blood test. I mean, you might be anemic, but you might not.....and if your symptoms are that severe, you will probably need a supplement. I had pretty severe anemia last year, and I hadn't even reached the symptoms you are describing, and I still needed a prescription supplement. And who knows how long it will take for the iron in your food to get to the rest of your body if you try to do it through food. Iron absorption can be touchy.
Go for the peace of mind! It sounds like you and your boyfriend are experiencing way too much grief from this.
Yes, I made a deal with MDVegan. My end of the deal is to go get stabbed (ie: blood test). I have been taking supplements since I was a teenager, but lately I haven't been very good about it.
So, I'm going to get a blood test this week and see what's up. However, after taking my supplements and eating iron-rich foods and fruits with vitamin C (to help absorption) all day, I do feel better. I don't hear my heartbeat in my head or have an excruciating headache, and I don't feel like I should just curl up under 5 tons of blankets and hibernate for three months.
I'm still tired, though. And still have an overall feeling of weakness or fatigue.
Yeah, that sounds like a great plan. Keep it up with the vitamin C too! :-*
Recently I learned that too much iron can actually be bad for your circulatory system. None of my doctors ever told me this before. I have been trying to find out why my blood pressure has been high, even after cutting out tea for a whole week. (normal weight, exercise frequently, rarely eat salt, much less anemic than I was when it was lower) So I stopped taking iron, and seem to be having less of the pounding heartbeat feeling than I was, although maybe it's just placebo.
But it's something to ask your doctor about if you've been taking iron supplements for many many years (but don't stop taking them before you see him/her!)
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