The reason I'm asking is my GP in the U.K. Is saying he can't diagnose me and wanted to refer me to a general medical doctor in the hospital to get same bloods he's already done, done again and then a diagnosis.
For almost 2 years I've had chronic fatigue. But last year it hit worse in the form of daily fatigue and crashes that vary in intensity. I have crashes after any stress emotionally or over doing things. Crashes can either be what I call a weak leg crash where legs are weak and bp feels low. Or a crash where head and eyes feel so fatigued and brain fog is bad or a bad one like I have today which is head and eyes fatigued, dizzy, weak but heavy body and I feel I'm dragging my body around all day. Everything's a huge effort in those crashes.
Day to day I'm fatigued and life is limited but crashes even tougher. Gp found underactive thyroid last year and eventually reluctantly gave me thyroxine. I've been on it 12 months now and it's within range yet my symptoms are persisting.
Bloods run about 6 times in he last 2 years. Nothing picked up other than thyroid. Until the last 2 months my fbc both times showed slightly lower neutrophils at 1.6 then up to 1.79, and slightly raised lymphocytes at 3.98 and then 4.45. I had sodium at 134 so 0.1 under range and gp was worried as it ran low once before. Other than that all the tests he's done for glandular fever, nuclear antibodies, liver, kidney, diabetes etc all normal.
He's suggested cfs a few times but never diagnosed it saying he can't. This last 18 months has led to me having severe anxiety and agoraphobia purely due to how fatigued and ill I feel most days and the fear as my gp just goes from test to test, repeating the same ones over and over but never telling me why I'm so unwell with fatigue and crashes. Last year he blamed anxiety and mood on my crashes but since January he's been taking it more serious but he worries it's diabetes one week, electrolytes the next. I'm exhausted.
Due to my agoraphobia I know I couldn't walk into a hospital right now to see a general medical doctor. I'd panic but I'm also scared daily why I crash and feel so ill at 37 years of age. My health anxiety runs wild.
I'm a mum to 3 children, hubby is great but works long hours. I've no extended family to support me either. It's tough. I've had PTSD since 2012 as my brother attacked me which led to anxiety but things improved dramatically until my health started suffering and the anxiety flooded back. My gp thinks stress could have led to my ill health.
I'm crashing a lot at the moment, I wake feeling I've not slept and today walking around my house triggers my anxiety feeling so heavy and weak. I make myself shower daily but today I've not even washed my hair. I know I need to learn to pace myself and stop feeling down on my appearance because I don't feel up to make up and doing my hair nice. I am over doing things at home with the kids and house and then pushing myself to always look ok and some days even getting out of bed is tough. Then I have better weeks where I've a 5/10 level of fatigue and I love those weeks as I can function despite it still being there. Today is a 10 and I feel too tired to even talk lol!
Sorry this got long or if it made no sense. I just feel so alone I this and my anxiety has run wild over the last year as my gp just brushed me aside last year blaming my fatigue on anxiety and now he's worried and it's made my anxiety run rife since my latest blood results being a bit out of range.
Has anyone been diagnosed by their gp? Why is mine saying he can't diagnose it, only a hospital doctor can?
Julie
For almost 2 years I've had chronic fatigue. But last year it hit worse in the form of daily fatigue and crashes that vary in intensity. I have crashes after any stress emotionally or over doing things. Crashes can either be what I call a weak leg crash where legs are weak and bp feels low. Or a crash where head and eyes feel so fatigued and brain fog is bad or a bad one like I have today which is head and eyes fatigued, dizzy, weak but heavy body and I feel I'm dragging my body around all day. Everything's a huge effort in those crashes.
Day to day I'm fatigued and life is limited but crashes even tougher. Gp found underactive thyroid last year and eventually reluctantly gave me thyroxine. I've been on it 12 months now and it's within range yet my symptoms are persisting.
Bloods run about 6 times in he last 2 years. Nothing picked up other than thyroid. Until the last 2 months my fbc both times showed slightly lower neutrophils at 1.6 then up to 1.79, and slightly raised lymphocytes at 3.98 and then 4.45. I had sodium at 134 so 0.1 under range and gp was worried as it ran low once before. Other than that all the tests he's done for glandular fever, nuclear antibodies, liver, kidney, diabetes etc all normal.
He's suggested cfs a few times but never diagnosed it saying he can't. This last 18 months has led to me having severe anxiety and agoraphobia purely due to how fatigued and ill I feel most days and the fear as my gp just goes from test to test, repeating the same ones over and over but never telling me why I'm so unwell with fatigue and crashes. Last year he blamed anxiety and mood on my crashes but since January he's been taking it more serious but he worries it's diabetes one week, electrolytes the next. I'm exhausted.
Due to my agoraphobia I know I couldn't walk into a hospital right now to see a general medical doctor. I'd panic but I'm also scared daily why I crash and feel so ill at 37 years of age. My health anxiety runs wild.
I'm a mum to 3 children, hubby is great but works long hours. I've no extended family to support me either. It's tough. I've had PTSD since 2012 as my brother attacked me which led to anxiety but things improved dramatically until my health started suffering and the anxiety flooded back. My gp thinks stress could have led to my ill health.
I'm crashing a lot at the moment, I wake feeling I've not slept and today walking around my house triggers my anxiety feeling so heavy and weak. I make myself shower daily but today I've not even washed my hair. I know I need to learn to pace myself and stop feeling down on my appearance because I don't feel up to make up and doing my hair nice. I am over doing things at home with the kids and house and then pushing myself to always look ok and some days even getting out of bed is tough. Then I have better weeks where I've a 5/10 level of fatigue and I love those weeks as I can function despite it still being there. Today is a 10 and I feel too tired to even talk lol!
Sorry this got long or if it made no sense. I just feel so alone I this and my anxiety has run wild over the last year as my gp just brushed me aside last year blaming my fatigue on anxiety and now he's worried and it's made my anxiety run rife since my latest blood results being a bit out of range.
Has anyone been diagnosed by their gp? Why is mine saying he can't diagnose it, only a hospital doctor can?
Julie