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What Causes Aching Of Foot Radiating To Hips?
My health history is super complex over the past few years.
My current question is about my ankle. On the top of my ankle there is a spot where when I touch it, it feels like electric shocks into my foot. On a day to day basis is not only makes my foot ache but that ache travels all the way up my leg into my hips. I had it xray'd and it is fine. I imagine its inflammation, which is all over my body. I experience severe problems with my stomach as well and my arm keeps going numb and weak and burning. Sometimes my face swells up. I had an MRI done 2 years ago, so I dont think I have MS or anything like that and I visited a neurologist a few months ago and he didn't seem to think my MRI was old enough to require a new one even with new symtoms. Its so problematic because every doctor I go to agrees there is something seriously wrong but they cannot find it. I have gone through so much guess and check diagnosis and some medications made me sicker. Ive been to a psychiatrist hoping I had anxiety or depression but no, I am apparently not only normal but I am handling things better than most people and doing everything they would have me do. I am exhausted. Other than the pain, I also get severe shortness of breath (with normal oxygen levels) which has ended me up in the ER twice now. The second time is was so bad I was blacking out on my way into Urgent Care who made me go to the ER. I also get severe gas (NOT HEARTBURN). The interesting thing is that the gas was never there in the beginning. The first time I went to the ER because I was struggling to breath. I had told that that weeks prior to that I was struggling to swallow my food, which I didn't worry too much about at the time. They sent me to a gasterentrologist who was unable to help me 9 medications and two endoscopies later. In fact I only got new symtoms like the severe gas and stomach issues.What came first, the chicken or the egg... I cant tell you. I suffer from extreme fatigue as well and neck pain, sometimes so bad I feel I cannot hold my head up. To add a timeline, I was perfectly healthy and active prior to 2008. At the beginning of 2008 I had a jaw surgery for an underbite. At the end of 2008 I was in a canoeing accident in Montana (VERY STUPID) where I basically had a near death experience with hypothermia and everything. Very Titanic. No PTSD though. I was and am fine. After that I had a low immune system where I kept catching colds and flus over and over again for about 6-9 months. I was put on a lot of antibiotics which being someone who never went to doctors prior, I didn't realize that was not a good thing. I stopped getting sick so much and was feeling a lot better and at a really good place, very happy in aug of 2009, then that one night on my way home from nannying my breathing got shallow and I was having a hard time breathing. I didn't panic though, I thought maybe I ate something I didn't know I was allergic too. So I took myself to the ER as it progressively got worse. While I was in the ER they said my oxygen was fine and made me wait. While I was waiting I put my head between my legs which I knew you were supposed to do and was just trying to breath deep and all of a sudden my nose started gushing with blood. I HAD NEVER IN MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE HAD A BLOODY NOSE FOR ANY REASON. It was bizarre and of course I did not know what to do. Then my heart started palpitating, which had never happened before. The rest I already explained to you. The bloody noses became chronic and recently went away. The heart palpitations dont occur as often either. its been a snowball effect ever since and now I am having the PAIN and and high sed rate as well. I did NOTHING to my ankle. I am so tired and sick of being sick. I am only 22 years old, almost 23. I want my life back, desperately. I have spent so much time and money on doctors and specialists who only tell me there is something wrong but they cant find it and send me to the next specialist who takes another few weeks or months to see. This is really starting to affect my psyche. I am now at the point where its so debilitating that I cannot work because I am so unreliable. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! I need a new direction. There is a lot more to my story but this is the base and most the rest simply include false diagnosis and tons of blood work. At the end of the day I dont know whether I just have multiple things wrong with me or just one big thing that no one can figure out. I do know the problem is my symtoms are so generic that there is thousands of things it can be. I dont know what to do anymore.
My current question is about my ankle. On the top of my ankle there is a spot where when I touch it, it feels like electric shocks into my foot. On a day to day basis is not only makes my foot ache but that ache travels all the way up my leg into my hips. I had it xray'd and it is fine. I imagine its inflammation, which is all over my body. I experience severe problems with my stomach as well and my arm keeps going numb and weak and burning. Sometimes my face swells up. I had an MRI done 2 years ago, so I dont think I have MS or anything like that and I visited a neurologist a few months ago and he didn't seem to think my MRI was old enough to require a new one even with new symtoms. Its so problematic because every doctor I go to agrees there is something seriously wrong but they cannot find it. I have gone through so much guess and check diagnosis and some medications made me sicker. Ive been to a psychiatrist hoping I had anxiety or depression but no, I am apparently not only normal but I am handling things better than most people and doing everything they would have me do. I am exhausted. Other than the pain, I also get severe shortness of breath (with normal oxygen levels) which has ended me up in the ER twice now. The second time is was so bad I was blacking out on my way into Urgent Care who made me go to the ER. I also get severe gas (NOT HEARTBURN). The interesting thing is that the gas was never there in the beginning. The first time I went to the ER because I was struggling to breath. I had told that that weeks prior to that I was struggling to swallow my food, which I didn't worry too much about at the time. They sent me to a gasterentrologist who was unable to help me 9 medications and two endoscopies later. In fact I only got new symtoms like the severe gas and stomach issues.What came first, the chicken or the egg... I cant tell you. I suffer from extreme fatigue as well and neck pain, sometimes so bad I feel I cannot hold my head up. To add a timeline, I was perfectly healthy and active prior to 2008. At the beginning of 2008 I had a jaw surgery for an underbite. At the end of 2008 I was in a canoeing accident in Montana (VERY STUPID) where I basically had a near death experience with hypothermia and everything. Very Titanic. No PTSD though. I was and am fine. After that I had a low immune system where I kept catching colds and flus over and over again for about 6-9 months. I was put on a lot of antibiotics which being someone who never went to doctors prior, I didn't realize that was not a good thing. I stopped getting sick so much and was feeling a lot better and at a really good place, very happy in aug of 2009, then that one night on my way home from nannying my breathing got shallow and I was having a hard time breathing. I didn't panic though, I thought maybe I ate something I didn't know I was allergic too. So I took myself to the ER as it progressively got worse. While I was in the ER they said my oxygen was fine and made me wait. While I was waiting I put my head between my legs which I knew you were supposed to do and was just trying to breath deep and all of a sudden my nose started gushing with blood. I HAD NEVER IN MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE HAD A BLOODY NOSE FOR ANY REASON. It was bizarre and of course I did not know what to do. Then my heart started palpitating, which had never happened before. The rest I already explained to you. The bloody noses became chronic and recently went away. The heart palpitations dont occur as often either. its been a snowball effect ever since and now I am having the PAIN and and high sed rate as well. I did NOTHING to my ankle. I am so tired and sick of being sick. I am only 22 years old, almost 23. I want my life back, desperately. I have spent so much time and money on doctors and specialists who only tell me there is something wrong but they cant find it and send me to the next specialist who takes another few weeks or months to see. This is really starting to affect my psyche. I am now at the point where its so debilitating that I cannot work because I am so unreliable. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! I need a new direction. There is a lot more to my story but this is the base and most the rest simply include false diagnosis and tons of blood work. At the end of the day I dont know whether I just have multiple things wrong with me or just one big thing that no one can figure out. I do know the problem is my symtoms are so generic that there is thousands of things it can be. I dont know what to do anymore.
