I just got back from a funeral for a dear family member, and I couldn't even act like myself because I was getting sensations of things moving up and down my back--pressing against my spine, kinda--which made it feel like I could fall if I wasn't watching the ground. Not to mention intense brain fog where I would see someone in my line of sight one second, look away for 5 seconds, and then forget they were even there once I looked back again.
The head pressure I have is constant, 24/7, and intense. And also the constant gas pain associated with severe constipation/IBS, 10 minute trips to the bathroom to urinate--just to urinate, and I'm a 27 year old male--because it takes 5 minutes to get my bladder going and 3 minutes to make sure it's all out to prevent leakage after I leave. I can't even tell anyone about this because they would not believe me--I have learned to hide these problems, but it takes a lot of effort. The hypochondriac stigma is alive and well in my family, especially for someone like me who has also suffered with mental illness.
I can barely have a bowel movement anymore, even with 2 stool softeners every day, about 130% of the RDI for fiber, lots of water, and even 4 mile walks daily. All this at 27 years of age, good shape, good weight, no history of neurological diseases anywhere in my family.
I took the suggestion FROM THIS FORUM for the severe constipation, to take Miralax every day. I did this ON TOP OF a stool softener, lots of water, 150% of the RDI for fiber and every day, and it still barely helped. How can this be explained???
What--pray tell--what kind of condition could affect all these body systems? I don't have any asymmetrical symptoms which would match with MS. It's just that everything's a bit off. There seems to be a link between the pressure in my head, pressure/stabbing/shooting pains in my back, and awful digestive problems. That seems to have become the "trifecta" of the mystery condition.
I can't live like this anymore. My brain fog is so intense I have not been able to work a decent job, and I'm therefore stuck with no health insurance. I feel diagnostic tests are the only thing that could shed light on this, now. But how... with no insurance and no way to get a good job?
This condition gets slowly worse every year, although some symptoms come and go. It seems to be a PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC AILMENT... if that helps anyone.
Can anyone run down the list of PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC AILMENTS which could cause the problems listed, and help me out.
I can't do anything I want to do without having to "wrestle" through all 50 symptoms of this damned thing distracting me. I want this thing gone, or at least, I want it identified.
The head pressure I have is constant, 24/7, and intense. And also the constant gas pain associated with severe constipation/IBS, 10 minute trips to the bathroom to urinate--just to urinate, and I'm a 27 year old male--because it takes 5 minutes to get my bladder going and 3 minutes to make sure it's all out to prevent leakage after I leave. I can't even tell anyone about this because they would not believe me--I have learned to hide these problems, but it takes a lot of effort. The hypochondriac stigma is alive and well in my family, especially for someone like me who has also suffered with mental illness.
I can barely have a bowel movement anymore, even with 2 stool softeners every day, about 130% of the RDI for fiber, lots of water, and even 4 mile walks daily. All this at 27 years of age, good shape, good weight, no history of neurological diseases anywhere in my family.
I took the suggestion FROM THIS FORUM for the severe constipation, to take Miralax every day. I did this ON TOP OF a stool softener, lots of water, 150% of the RDI for fiber and every day, and it still barely helped. How can this be explained???
What--pray tell--what kind of condition could affect all these body systems? I don't have any asymmetrical symptoms which would match with MS. It's just that everything's a bit off. There seems to be a link between the pressure in my head, pressure/stabbing/shooting pains in my back, and awful digestive problems. That seems to have become the "trifecta" of the mystery condition.
I can't live like this anymore. My brain fog is so intense I have not been able to work a decent job, and I'm therefore stuck with no health insurance. I feel diagnostic tests are the only thing that could shed light on this, now. But how... with no insurance and no way to get a good job?
This condition gets slowly worse every year, although some symptoms come and go. It seems to be a PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC AILMENT... if that helps anyone.
Can anyone run down the list of PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC AILMENTS which could cause the problems listed, and help me out.
I can't do anything I want to do without having to "wrestle" through all 50 symptoms of this damned thing distracting me. I want this thing gone, or at least, I want it identified.