Re: Passed out (or something), went to ER..

I'm pretty sure PuppetMaster84 is right about it not being anxiety. It'd be nice if we were all just dealing with only anxiety, but that just isn't the case.

The main reason I don't think anxiety had anything to do with it is because until I "came back to life" and started trying to get up and breathing and all that, I was experiencing ZERO anxiety. I felt no panic, nothing. I was just laying there exhausted. I could feel my heart beating as well. It was beating pretty slowly. It started speeding up when I was up again.

When I got back home from the ER, I had a few mild episodes of that, as I mentioned in my OP. No anxiety during or after those either. Just exhaustion.


I just got back from medical records at the hospital, back with copies of my labs. My liver enzymes are, indeed, normal now, completely within range.

As I walked out of the records office, I was looking for my thyroid panels or whatever tests they did on the thyroid, and I couldn't find any. So I went back in and asked them about it. They called the lab and said none were ordered. It seems that the doctor was talking out of his ass when he said my thyroid was fine. The last thyroid test I had done was in December and it was just the TSH test, not the best test in the world, but it came out to 4.160, which, according to my research (and many of my symptoms) is high. Perhaps that is the lab test he was looking at when he said that my thyroid was fine, but either way, I think they mislead me. Pretty annoyed at that.

At some point yesterday, while still in the ER, the doctor had said something like "It could be a psychiatric issue at the bottom of your problems...hypochondria...but it's not your fault, buddy. It's not your fault." I don't even get angry when they start saying things like that anymore, because I've learned they tell nearly EVERYONE that, even when some people are CLEARLY ill. I told him "Yeah, you know, honestly at this point, it would be NICE if hypochondria was all it was. It would be nice because then I could just get on with my life and be done with this nonsense. But some things you just can't fake." After that, I showed him that thing on my leg that ate up a piece of my thigh muscle, and that part of it on my skull. He didn't know what to say about that. Nnttssss.

PuppetMaster84, I haven't had the saliva test done, but I agree and really need it done. Where did you order yours from?