I've been sick for years, with overlapping issues. Only real diagnosis I have right now is migraine. Just recently I think I may have pieced together a few things that may lead to a breakthrough, I'm hoping.
Not to long ago I had an overwhelming attack of what felt a little like anxiety but worse; palpitations, excessive urinating and insane thirst, burning, tingling and pulling in my legs, dry eyes, shaking, dizzy, breathing wrong, tired but unable to sit still or lie down due to feeling panicky. This happened about an hour after finishing off a Red Bull I had opened up earlier the day, drank half and put in the fridge. It was my first Red Bull in months, regular caffeine is on my migraine-avoid list. This episode was also precipitated by ridiculous salt and carb cravings, this has been happening nearly my entire life. I normally HATE any kind of spicy foods and hot peppers, but every once in a while I get very strong cravings for jarred pepperchinis, garlic-stuffed green olives. The previous few days I had been working my way through a new jar of pepperchinis, about two months since the previous pepperchini fit. I always guzzle water during these times, and usually eat the pepperchinis with plain calrose rice to help dull the bite (I know they're mild but my mouth doesn't tolerate hot foods well, which just makes this even weirder). I had always assumed my diet was deficient in something, possibly due to avoidance of migraine triggers, that prompted the cravings, and I usually felt all right after the binge, a little fatigued and irritable but that's "normal" in my life, so I didn't fight it much. At the time I was also right at the end of another 10-day brutal menstrual period which has been increasingly taxing on me over the past two years, I've been getting more and more lethargic with each one despite taking multis with iron.
Well I ended up calling an ambulance on myself when I almost passed out while sitting on the toilet. Medics gave me routine IV, I started to feel a tiny bit better at first, then my mouth suddenly went bone dry and I could barely form words, so then we all went to the hospital. The medic said I was in afib. It was a miracle I didn't pee in the ambulance, but they let me go right away as soon as they got me into the room. When I could speak I told them about the stuff I took that day and what I ate. That day it had been half dose of mag/calc/D3, small dose of taurine (500mg), small dose of lysine (500mg), theanine (100mg), 25mg P5P, half a multivitamin, 2 tsp Hershey's 100% cacao, 1/8 tsp mucuna 15% l-dopa ... same as the previous two days, with the usual ambien and theanine at bedtime
They kept asking me if I was on drugs (illegal). After being a migraineur for ten years, I'm almost used to doctors treating me like a drug addict though I've never been one and never ask for narcotic painkillers (they don't help anyway). They gave me some ativan while waiting for blood and urine tests to come back, and lectured me about energy drinks (which I deserved). I was a little better bit still in occasional afib after an hour, cold and shivering, they had my chest scanned. I could tell they were just waiting for the IV to finish so they could send me home, but then all the test results came back and the doc said I wasn't anemic and brought me some fat potassium pills. After about an hour and a half I was discharged, I could walk steady by then and was much calmer.
So I go home thinking wtf is wrong with me, did I almost kill myself or am I uncovering underlying problem I've had for some time? But that's went I remembered -- this same thing happend before a little more than a year ago. All the same symptoms. I had an abcessed toorh and had been up all night agaim, but all I had at the time was ibuprofen and excedrin . I was half insane from the pain and lack of sleep, I took 400mg doses of ibiuprofen every couple of hours until that same fit started happening but I thought I killed myself with ibuprofen so I called for a bus buth this time only took blood and urine, gave me a script for 20 norcos and to llay off the OTC painkillers for a while, and a reference to a dentist I couldn't afford
Tomorrow I have an appointment to have my IUD taken out, It's the copper-releasing one and I'm hoping it will help in some small way if it is no longer poking at me and causing nearly crippling bleeding, it's been there for 4 years and I'b been getting progressively sicker ever since
The week after that I have a follow-up visit with my doc, I don't communicate very we;; verbally and maybe if I had, she would have l
aready found diagnosis by now. What should I say to her