Hello
Looking for some kind of acknowledgement of my symptoms. To cut a very long story short, I have been ill since August 2013 with persistent nausea although I can trace back several months even years to brief flares of symptoms. Fatigue growing and then flu like symptoms with aches all over body led to me stopping work. All standard medical tests are normal with extensive bloods completed. A friend eventually suggested that I might have an anxiety disorder so I embarked on a journey where various AD meds were prescribed none of which eased my nausea and in fact made my symptoms worse and introduced depressive feelings and anxiety for the first time especially when withdrawing from a med. I am unable to tolerate SSRI drugs like sertraline and fluoxetine with flu like symptoms and fever appearing quickly at low doses. Have tried to use diazepam but although it sometimes takes the edge off my symptoms, it does not ease my nausea or improve my mood. I am unable to tolerate any stimulants including caffeine or alcohol where before my crash I was a heavy coffee drinker. Never been able to tolerate alcohol with similar nausea and fatigue symptoms appearing throughout my life. Would spend days in bed after a drinking session.
Fatigue is not severe level. My wife had ME for many years and so I can compare my symptoms. I do not fit 'snugly' into the ME diagnosis as my fatigue is not severe.
I am asking my doctor to refer me to a local ME clinic but am looking for some advice or acknowledgement that my symptoms are not simply due to anxious thoughts and could be ME or dysautonomia related.
Any advice or guidance round be appreciated
Looking for some kind of acknowledgement of my symptoms. To cut a very long story short, I have been ill since August 2013 with persistent nausea although I can trace back several months even years to brief flares of symptoms. Fatigue growing and then flu like symptoms with aches all over body led to me stopping work. All standard medical tests are normal with extensive bloods completed. A friend eventually suggested that I might have an anxiety disorder so I embarked on a journey where various AD meds were prescribed none of which eased my nausea and in fact made my symptoms worse and introduced depressive feelings and anxiety for the first time especially when withdrawing from a med. I am unable to tolerate SSRI drugs like sertraline and fluoxetine with flu like symptoms and fever appearing quickly at low doses. Have tried to use diazepam but although it sometimes takes the edge off my symptoms, it does not ease my nausea or improve my mood. I am unable to tolerate any stimulants including caffeine or alcohol where before my crash I was a heavy coffee drinker. Never been able to tolerate alcohol with similar nausea and fatigue symptoms appearing throughout my life. Would spend days in bed after a drinking session.
Fatigue is not severe level. My wife had ME for many years and so I can compare my symptoms. I do not fit 'snugly' into the ME diagnosis as my fatigue is not severe.
I am asking my doctor to refer me to a local ME clinic but am looking for some advice or acknowledgement that my symptoms are not simply due to anxious thoughts and could be ME or dysautonomia related.
Any advice or guidance round be appreciated