Realizing Weight Gain Through Winter

nomad37

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Well i am new here not really i have been following the board since February and it has helped me learn a lot. I am Asian (not many I notice here who cares) and I work as a web designer. I am on the over weight side but I am pretty sporty as I play tennis a lot. Unfortunately during winter in Canada I dont get to exercise much and I gained more weight and one day I realised while holding the fork my left finger would tremble it did freak me out and I work with computers a lot and noticed that too when I was using short cut keys when I press down my left fingers would shake. It was scary and then I fell sick with severe gas that would cause palpitation especially if I was lying down on the bed I mean it felt like I was going to have a heart attack at times. Anyway I went and did a blood work they found that my Hpylori level was pretty high in 68. I also had a mild CPK level of 212 which i had no idea what it was and doctor did not bother about it much. So he put me on the HP Pac One of the worst medication I ever took and think if I ever get Hpylor again I will never take this medication. I had to take Moring and Night 4 tablets. When I took the first dosage I still went to play tennis that day cause I did not really feel any weakness or anything from the medication.But the next day my right hand fingers were stiff with pins and needle and it hurt a lot. i had to squeeze my fingers or put in hot water to get relief. it was so scary I broke down almost.I could not even tell whether this was the medication or i might have injured myself from playing tennis but I still continued the medication. I had strange shakes on my body even lying down my head would shake or if I am sitting lets say like people meditate position my back would move up and down automatically!!. This things freaked me out. My hand stiffness would come and go and somedays nothing at all. Then of of course by end of Jan this year came the worst. I was going to sleep and my body was jerking every time I would fall asleep as they call it restless leg and from there full blown twitches all over my body calf arms shoulder and tingling sensation on my feet like electric current a lot. And yes Mr Google put my anxiety off the roof with ALS thing and it wasnt really the twitches part that freaked me out it was the hand part more :(And also the last retarded symptoms I got was sweaty feet which I never in my life had. My hands are dry always.Coming to this site did relax me a whole lot as for for my condition now. I dont have the shakes when I lie down and my twitches are not like thousand like some of you have they few here and there much less than what it was. I uped my Vitamin B12, Magnesium and Vitamin D. The B12 helped me with the shakiness when i used short cuts on the computer.But I dont think my hands are getting better cause now if I play tennis I realised my fingers hurts a lot after the game even at night time I have to use heated mediction cream on my hand and wrap it my cloth so I can sleep if not it just hurts badly. And the worst is when I am around people especially difficult clients who can give me a hard time I feel my fingers hurts like hell and at times my legs feel wobbly also.And yes whatever this is is winning me over with severe depression, the people I love the most are being hurt as I push them away, I am going to be 29 in 11 days. I am a very simple boring person, I dont smoke or drink and its very hard to talk to someone about my symptoms cause they just dont get it. Sorry for the long boring post and wish everyone a healthy week ahead. TonyPeople can spend 8 billion dollars on a garbage to find out how the universe was created but cant look into this type of serious deadly condition.
 
Hi Tony, welcome to BFS, and it sure does sound like you got it pretty good. Have u seen a neuro at all for your symptoms?? Not because I think you have anything serious, but just so you can have some peace of mind...But your story sounds very similar to the stories of many people that end up here. I'm happy the board has helped you to feel calmer about your symptoms, and I'll bet money, that BFS is what you have.We are here to support you so feel free to post as much as you like and to ask any questions you may have. There is much wisdom on this board.Take careRobynn :D) P.S. What deadly disease are you referring to in your signature above??
 
Thank Robynn,I tried asking the doctors here about it and none of them are taking me seriously so I gave up on it even if I get a Neuro appointment it will take like 3 months or more. It just dosent make sense from Hpylori to all this suddenly that i strongly feel the medication must have screwed me up pretty badly. I dont know I did not really want to post here at all actually it just that the depression is killing me.Signature? oh yeah what else all un curable non treatable diseases. :)
 
Ok, was just making sure that you were not referring to BFS, LOL. You should post here whenever you need to vent, it will help with the depression aspect of having this condition. Sometimes it does wonders just to know that you are not allone with these funky symptoms. There are several meds that have been suspect for starting a BFS situation in some people. With others it was a flu vaccine, some just chronic stress, some had a virus just prior, or a surgery. Many things have been said to be possibilities, but we all end up in the same boat just a twitching away.You are going to ok, I promise, just be patient with your body rite now and allow it some down time to heal, it will heal.Take careRobynn :D)
 
Thanks Robynn you have no idea how much reading yours, aaron and few others post here always calms me down and gives me hope. I forgot to mention actually I had seen 4 different doctor and one muscle joint and pain specialist. One doctor said it could be arthiritist, another anxiety, but two other agreed on Ulnar Nerve damage because I spend over 50 hours a week in front of the computer (NERD!) so they think the sitting posture or some RSI symptom I have. God knows. :)Usually i hate it when doctor say anxiety but I had this problem since like 10 years ago if I go to a doctor and he is going to check my pressure my heart beats so fast that i cant control it. Inf act when I went to do my blood work and ECG early Jan this year. My heart was beating so fast that when they were going to draw blood i could not even clench my fist properly and ecg they had to wait like 10 mins for me to calm down. I am such a mess.
 
Yeah, but its ok to be a mess rite now, this stuff with BFS can really take u on a ride and its hard to adjust to it all at first. But once you get it in your head that nothing else is going on and that you are not dying (which you certainly are not) then it really does get much easier to deal with and just move on. I still have my moments here and there, but that just comes with the territory. Over all, I am a far cry from where I was even 6 months ago. I'm sorry that others havnt responded to your post yet, but please do not take this that anyone thinks you have something else going on, thats not the case. You will fit rite in here, trust me.Talk soon and take careRobynn :D)
 
Hi Tony, I am still very new to BFS (Jan 2011), but I can relate to what you are going through. I also had "the scare" and it wasn't too long ago that I found myself standing at the foot of my bed at 3 AM, unable to sleep, completely panic striken and had to force myself to go back to bed and not consult "Dr. Google" about the disease I knew I had yet one more time.....The search feature on this site is extremely helpful. Search your symptoms and I'll bet you find a number of people who have/had the same. It really helped me calm down. I can also relate to the depression you are feeling. I had the same, and frankly sometimes still do. This condition is depressing at first. I didn't feel like I could tell anyone except my husband (how bizarre does it sound to be twitching everywhere, all the time??) and he, understandably, got sick of hearing about it or having me say, "look at this......." It's a lonely place, but this board and its members are a blessing. Take care, -Nancy
 
Thanks Nancy.:)I did and was interested to find that the survey robynn did and a lot of people on this board has the stiff fingers problem like me.I will try to ask my family doctor here to make an appointment with a nuero if my symptoms gets worse ( I pray to god it dosent). And yes my family members and friends are like bored of hearing me complain everyday of this and that same thing as your getting :sick: Take care and god bless
 
Hi there. I can really relate to your symtoms especially the shakiness. I have tremours in my hands. They come and go. I have just been to the gym and my twitches this evening are bad and my legs feel very shaky. I have been using some free weights and I am not very good so that probably doesn't help. I am determined to carry on with the training though even though it makes my twitching and other symptoms worse. I get pins and needles on waking up and sometimes during the day. I suffer from anxiety and this comes and goes like most of us on the site. Takes Care
 
Thanks godess :).I used to have the twitches firing off after exercise but the past few days it seems not much very few small ones. And yes keep on exercising dont let this garbage stop you from excercising cause thats what it did to me for like 3 months almost. Everyday I wake up I feel terrible when I see the twitches and all the other symptoms, even my tennis buddies were puzzled why I was not contacting them or not even replying there messages but I stopped that and started to go for regular walk and started playing tennis again. It did help my symptoms, not much sweaty feet, on and off most of the conditions. i will turn 29 in 2 days and if birthday wishes come true then everyone knows what to wish for. :)
 
You are so right wanderer!I stopped playing basketball after the twitching started, cause it scared the *beep* out of me ( pardon my language :)A month into the twitching i gave it another shot and my twitches went crazy, so i stopped!Now 7 months into this i just started running again 2 days ago ( 55 minutes )I'm amazed i'm still capable of doing this after such a long time of not sporting at all.My legs felt weird the day after but i've decided to continue running and i even start playing competitive basketball again next season.
 
Dont apologise for the language :D) Your legs felt wierd not because of BFS its because you have not played for so long same thing for me when i started to jog few days back I felt like I got hit by a train the next day. Keep on playing I am going out to play tennis in a few mins dont care if I collapse and die just want to hit some balls!cheers
 

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