PTSD sufferer
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The list of physical symptoms I have has expanded recently. I spend last week at the hospital running all sorts of tests, I don't have any results yet and am quite nervous, in two ways - 1) they may not find anything and I will have to learn to live with this too or it is neurological or the damage can't be undone 2) I have a good idea of the possibilities if they find something and those possibilities could see me in a wheel chair. I'm 32 and can't win. My heart is fine, rest of my body is broken.
My list prior to mental illness diagnosis was: Autoimmune (CFS), allergies, inflammation (fibromyalgia), migraines, catatonia states (stupa), leg cramps, twinges and seizures and at puberty endometriosis. These started when I was a child.
It now (on top of the above) includes: Nervous system and neurological problems such as swelling in the lower half of the body (stomach and legs) to the point of not being able to walk, immobility in the legs, electric shocks on one side of the body with ruptured eye vessels on same side (now migrating to both sides), infertility, stabbing pains in ears, frontal lobe (between the eyebrows) pressure, IBS and more skin allergies.
I think anyone with PTSD would complain of memory loss, there is after all a lot of memory activity and re-filing going on when we are healing.
My list prior to mental illness diagnosis was: Autoimmune (CFS), allergies, inflammation (fibromyalgia), migraines, catatonia states (stupa), leg cramps, twinges and seizures and at puberty endometriosis. These started when I was a child.
It now (on top of the above) includes: Nervous system and neurological problems such as swelling in the lower half of the body (stomach and legs) to the point of not being able to walk, immobility in the legs, electric shocks on one side of the body with ruptured eye vessels on same side (now migrating to both sides), infertility, stabbing pains in ears, frontal lobe (between the eyebrows) pressure, IBS and more skin allergies.
I think anyone with PTSD would complain of memory loss, there is after all a lot of memory activity and re-filing going on when we are healing.
