Diagnose me..Dr's can't

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Registered: 10-30-2007
Diagnose me..Dr's can't
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Tue, 10-30-2007 - 3:30pm

Hi everyone,


First off I will let you know that I have been a "lurker" here since May of this year.  Here is my dilema.   I am 40 yrs old.....4 kids....5'6 and 125 lbs.  Total excercise freak.   I got sick back in March.   I had been running 5 miles at least 3 time a week and I had recently starting lifting weights....really lifting.  I ended up in the emergency room due to numbness/tingling (actually had been going on for awhile but ignored it) in my left arm and right foot.  Shakiness....not trembling but really shaking.  Couldn't breath...heart was pounding felt like I was gong to die.  Wasn't a panic attack even tho I was at work and that place will really do it to you.  LOL   I was having really bad headaches couldn't walk a few feet without feeling like I was winded.  Had to use the bathroom all the time.  It was like I had lost control of my bowels.  I was a mess.   They did all the bloodwork....CAT scan....chest x-ray....ekgs....NOTHING.  Saw a neurologist to just rule out mild stroke..nope.  The only thing that came back on my blood work was that I was dehydrated and my sugar was alarmingly low.  DO not know the number.  Since then I am unable to exert myself not nearly like I was.  Had to stop running and lifting weights.  I have lost a significant amount of weight.  They did say I was hypoglycemic and to test my sugar.   I have extremely low numbers on a regular basis.   50s and 60s are nothing for me on a daily basis but can see 30s and 40s also.   But my numbers also go up in the 200s after I eat.  But plummet quickly and very low.  I have seen my PCP 3 or 4 times since and he even had me do the nuclear stress test on my heart to rule out heart disease and guess what....NOTHING.  It is a struggle everyday now to feel "good".  I feel like crap after I eat so I don't eat.  I am tired all the time and still have the numbness in my feet mainly.  Oh yeh.....my hands and feet stay cold and turn purple.   Nope it's not a circulation problem.  MY PCP told me I was healthy as a horse.....but I feel so bad all the time.   Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 


Thanks


P.S.  Yes, I know I need to find a new PCP.  LOL  My fiance tells me that everyday. 




Edited 10/30/2007 3:41 pm ET by bizymom43
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 10-30-2007 - 4:41pm

Hi and welcome to the board.


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Registered: 04-03-2003
Tue, 10-30-2007 - 5:03pm

Did they do TSH, T3/T4 lab work to check your thyroid in all that blood work? That can cause many of the symptoms you mention and can sometimes be a one-two punch with diabetes if it's based in an autoimmune misfire/malfunction.

Since both diabetes and thyroid issues can fall into the same 'category' as far as specialists, you might want to find an endocrinologist to take a look at the situation.

--Deb