Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Immune Disorders Message Board

Abbey32 · 05-29-2006, 10:47 AM

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I know it's something auto immune related.

Here are my problems...

All started about 4 yrs ago.

Iritis
styes
fatigue
cold hands and feet
itchy hands and feet...tops and bottoms
stiff fingers when i bend them
something that feels like shin splints but around my ankles
hands and feet tingle
achiness in the upper back...like a flu
headaches
nausea
constipation
abnormal periods
vertigo
hives ONE time in the sun
insomnia

All of these happened off and on...

But what happens about once a month...are these 3 specific things...

achiness in the back, headache, fatigue and nausea.

Not related to period...nothing triggers it.

Docs don't know what it is? I have been checked for thyroid(but not the f3-4 or antibodies!)...that was ok. Had a cat scan...ok...blood drawn...nothing.

What doc do I need to see? A specialist? HELP! I KNOW it's something....I'm not crazy.

I'm 34.

BarbaraH · 07-24-2006, 01:28 PM

Hi Abbey -

Perhaps two of the stickies at the top of the lupus board would be enlightening for you to read. They are "Criteria to Dx Lupus" and "antiphosphoidlipoid syndrome".

Your cold hands and feet are possibly Reynaud's as that is also common with autoimmune problems. I have it and often wear socks in the summer as my toes ache so much when cold. Socks help!

Several symptoms on your list hint at lupus - but I'm no doctor! I have lupus myself.

Read those stickies and see what you think.

Wishing you well - Barbara

hashigirl12 · 03-03-2007, 10:40 PM

Some symptoms like constipation, abnormal periods, cold hands and feet sound like Hashimotos Disease (Auto-Immune Thyroid Disease). But I am not a doctor!

hashigirl12 · 03-03-2007, 10:41 PM

Also, Hashimotos has headaches, fatigue and nausea, i use to really throw up bad. Endocrinologists handle this.

fairy-lights · 03-05-2007, 07:24 AM

Hi I have some of your symptoms and I agree it makes you feel helpless and you feel crazy as no one seems to know what's going on!.

I was referred to a Physician just before Christmas and he has been fantastic, he did all my bloods and sent off for specialised tests also, I have an appointment tomorrow with an immune consultant to find out what my physician thinks I have and to increase my hemoglobin levels.

Can you ask to see an immune specialist? I don't know what the cold hands and feet thing is, I suffer with it also, my husband says it's because I have a warm heart!! this has only happened in the last few months.

Let me know how you get on please.

Take care Susie