I've just found out my aneurysm has grown from 4 to 4.6 sometime in the last 3 years. Prior to that (and still) over the past few months I have been experiencing extreme hot or cold, sweats, stomach pain, extreme anger, mood swings, irritation (especially to even slight noise) and sudden crying for no reason. Chest pain, nausea, light headedness, confusion, memory loss, body aches, loss of appetite but no accompanied weight loss. Headaches, ear ache and bad periods. I'm 38.
My GP did all the observations which were fine and has given me a couple of doses of antibiotics in case it was an infection but the general feeling from them was that it was anxiety/stress related. He also ruled out the perimenopause/menopause, pregnancy and diabetes. I'm now wondering if it might be related to the aneurysm? I have never felt this unwell from anxiety before and theres been no new events to distress me.
The cardiologist asked me how my general health had been but when I said bad he didn't follow up with any questions about details.
Many thanks!
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Everything you describe there applies to me and has for years except my joint pains are possibly a lot worse.I have fibromyalgia. The main symptom is joint pain in specific areas but it also creates a whole raft of strange and seemingly unrelated symptoms. Memory problems are known as fibro fog, chest pain is costochondritis. I get dreadful sweats at any time specifically just face and neck. Don't google it as there's a lot of rubbish out there but look at FMAUK, the specific Fibromyalgia Association for the UK. Remember though that most symptoms can be put down as anything under the sun. IF I Googled I could have malaria, Lyme disease, even the plague LOL. A lot of what you describe sound like anxiety or hormonal but they do ring a lot of bells with me regarding FIbromaylagia.
JUst remember no one on here is a doctor , all they can do is make suggestions. Not saying that's what it is at all but it just rang lots and lots of bells with me as I've had FIbro for over 40 years. In your position I would be very anxious about an aneurysm too.
Yes I'm just looking at things, I know what you mean about googling, come up with all sorts of things and it could just be stress. I have my CT in a few weeks so hopefully that will shine some more light on things. Thank you for replying though, any possibility is good to hear about so I can look into because I'm just walking around in the dark. I do have good GPs who listen and test but they can't know everything. Hope you're health is ok at the moment x
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