I’ve also suffered from CSA. My recent blood tests reported that I have Lupus Anticoagulant Antibodies which cause my blood to clot too easily. So I’m taking blood thinners, likely for the rest of my life. I’ve never had Lupus, btw — yet, during my 20s and 30s, my PCP would often say, “If I didn’t know better, I’d say you have Lupus. Yet I know that you don’t.”
At age 18, I first noticed my Raynaud’a syndrome, where the blood vessels of my hands and fingers would spasm, causing numbness with coldness in my fingers which, would then suddenly turn bright red and swellen with blood. I was told this was caused by either stress or from exposure to extreme temperatures. The extreme temperatures I can understand but other times the only explanation was stress. Rarely has my Raynaud’s syndrome flared-up during the past decade. Yet for many years, my Raynaud’s was chronic on a daily basis.
PCOS I hadn’t had although, my periods were always heavy and irregular. My hormone levels seemed quite normal and had always tested normal.
My thyroid levels have always been borderline low while, I’ve always had symptoms similar to hypothyroidism.
I also have a chronic irregular heartbeat, called a bigeminy, first diagnosed during my early 20s. I was then told this problem was cellular in nature and unexplainable. Possibly stress related also?
I did had symptoms of chronic fibromyalgia between my mid 40s to mid 60s. I was under a great deal of stress between 1990 and 2002 and perhaps, this might have caused it. Arthritis hasn’t been an issue for me. I did however suffer from severe migraines (hormone related?) between 1999 and 2017.
Yet due to my brain tumor and past TBI, it’s difficult to know what has caused what. Then too, I was told that my brain tumor was interfering with my RAM sleep.
. My work does have an EAP but it’s two sessions and I don’t want to sound ungrateful but, what would I even do with that?
