The good news in here is that you can expect to feel much better than you realized you could expect to feel! I'm happy for you.

Oh BIG time.

I had my psych doc describe it once that the mind/body only accepts so much input than it shuts the barn doors so to speak and does not let anything else in or out.

I was anemic for almost 10 years which was solved 3 years ago by a series of GYN surgeries - that still hurt. I have PTSD and am BiPolar. I ruined both knees running in the Army. Two years ago I had a thyroidectimy for cancer, radiation therapy that has left me with holes in my short term memory and no energy. I have panic attacks that curl me up in the corner screaming for hours at a time.... but 90% of the time the only thing I know is that my back hurts.

Oh, and I guess I also probably have a torn rotator cuff (only have partial use of my right arm) and some broken ribs still... but what I can tell you is how bad the pain in my back is right now, anything else I have to think about first.

for anything to get past the spinal pain, it has to be pretty bad.

hugs
yadlim

I'm glad the infection can be treated easily.

Yes, I often don't realize when I'm sick because I feel sick from stress but have to push on all the time.

Wow muji I'm glad they found that and can help u!
Yea I have daily migraines so I dunno that much registers beyond that. Somedays I can't sleep and some I can sleep all day. I'm always stressed (both a cuase and a result of daily migraines) and though I am not diagnosed PTSD I am noticing how much those sympotms seem to slip into the mix too. Big fat mixing pot of I'm going bk to bed

Absotively!!! To the extent that I am convinced physicians cannot help me in any realistic fashion. Many physicians have even said so. When I experience a physical symptom, I never look for an MD. Don't even have one in my personal phone book. I look to my PTSD tool box and begin looking for which wire has come loose in my psycho circuits.

In answer to your post, Muji? Me me me me me!

It's so easy to do---figure the fatigue is X when it's Y....

Glad your doc caught these things and you will recover:-)

Hugs,
leo

BTW, Muji, given the summer weather, who wouldn't have had sweats this year? Don't get too hard on yourself. Now, if you start sweating in winter in Ontario....!!!

So glad they caught that before it was more serious! Sometimes these things can be tricky...hopefully though now that you and your doctor know about your anemia and infection it will be easier to spot in the future.

Thanks for what you all have said here about missing regular illnesses because of being distracted by PTSD symptoms. Rizen wrote: "Yes, I often don't realize when I'm sick because I feel sick from stress but have to push on all the time. " I KNOW! In a few words, that's exactly it.

It's so good for me to know I'm not the only one. I was mad at myself for doing it again and going around with a kidney infection. In 2010 when I was a hospital chaplain I just made myself "push on" and ended up with this permanent kidney damage in the first place.

I won't be so mad at myself now that I know all the rest of us with PTSD are always a work in progress on this one. THANK YOU. I feel lousy with infection tonight, but now I'll just embrace the antibiotics and let myself get better.

Muji

Good night, all. I have a doctor's appointment about this infection first thing at 8am, so I'm off to bed early. Thanks for your support with how frustrated I got about it. Be well, everybody.