A brief history of my medical problems are:
* Crohn’s disease, with related liver condition
* Depression and anxiety
* Fatigue
* Head aches and just feeling really unwell
* Also I’ve missed my last few periods and am 47, so probably menopausal
Lately the anxiety and panic attacks have been fairly extreme for no obvious reason.

I read that low body temperature could be related to thyroid problems that may cause these symptoms. I have previously had a brief thyroid problem - my iodine levels were about 1000 times above normal and it was probably because I had been making myself lots of (healthy?) smoothies with spirulina. Once I stopped doing this my thyroid levels returned to normal, but I still have a benign growth on my thyroid.

Anyway - does anyone know if my low body temp 34 - 35.5 C is an issue I should be concerned by and could it be causing my general feeling of just being really unwell, fatigued, poor memory, less organised and motivated than I was before, less able to think clearly and lots of anxiety and panic attacks.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks - Heidi

here i am 5 days later (last time i toked was saturday morning) and my heart is still faster than usual. for what it’s worth, i have panic attacks and severe anxiety and things have been bothering me lately. i saw a psychiatrist today about it, and got some nerve medication called Klonopin 1.0mg. i took one and it relaxed my body, but not my heart. i had a panic attack in his office.

i have no serious heart issues, just tachycardia and very mild MVP that requires no treatment.

so can weed make your heart rate fast for several days after smoking it if you have a low tolerance? or do you think it’s the anxiety eating me up (it honestly is) or both? i’m really freaking out right now..i don’t know what to do. please, if someone can give me any answers/advice/help i’ll humbly thank you from the bottom of my heart
thanks for the answers, guys.

what i’m worried about is, why is my pulse still high after smoking? do you think i’m worried about how my pulse was fast before, and now that i’m worried, my pulse is consistently fast?

And don’t say "then don’t do those things anymore". I have cancer, and have to be strapped to tables and wear masks for my radiation treatment.

On May 8, 2008 I go in to the dentist to have one wisdom tooth removed, the procedure goes fine, I go home and am given Tylenol 3, Steroids, and Antibiotics. Well of course I am having terrible side effects so I call my doctor on May 11 and he says stop the antibiotics and Tylenol, use salt water rinses and Advil. I still feel weird 2 weeks after stopping the meds so I pay a visit to the doctor and tell him my first of many symptoms to come. I tell him that I feel drowsy at times, dizzy, and I feel like I’m not always there, and it was very hard to explain the feeling of not being there, after a few weeks of searching on the net, I found out the feeling of not being there is a very common occurrence that happens during a panic attack called Derealization. So the doctor and I agree that I suffer from Anxiety from my stressful work envoronment (Restaurant Supervisor). The doctor at first refused to give me meds for this and told me to relax. That didn’t work so I was put on a weak dose (5mg) of Cipralex, a SSRI antidepressant which can also be used for Anxiety. He said take it for a month and tell me how you feel. It was perfect timing too because I had a 10 day vacation coming up. Well the vacation did nothing for me; 3 weeks into treatment I have every side effect from the pill, worse anxiety, muscle twitiching (like my hands actually moved on their own it was scary)constipation, irritation, personality change, etc. So I was taken off of them at the end of August, I started them at the end of July. I felt much better after getting off the pills many symptoms went away like anxiety and drowsiness and the derealization. My sex drive also returned. Despite all of those symptoms disappearing I still had this vague feeling like something was wrong with me (malaise). Well I was right because I still had minor tremors (hand shakieness), started getting frequent headaches, and started getting muscle disconfort in my hamstring area. That translated into pain and now the arms feel weak too, my grip doesn’t feel as tight and I have to try harder to move my limbs, not much harder, but a noticeable difference. I started getting pain in my testicles, I had this problem 2 years ago but it went away on its own, the only thing the ultrasound showed was a 2mm calcification on my right kidney, which was nothing serious, but now my pain has returned. Going to see a urololgist on October 29th. Sharp chest pain that I had 2 years ago diagnosed as Chest Wall Pain has also returned. Now I am getting pain in my jaw and tooth where the surgery was performed almost 5 months after the surgery and I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me. The newest symptom is photophobia, not meaning im scared of light but meaning light outside hurts my eyes even with my transitional glasses on. I told my mom all of these symptoms and she is starting to think I am a hyperchondriac, which is why I’m scared to tell my doctor all of these symptoms, he’ll think its ridculous for a human being to have this many symptoms. I have not seen the doctor since the end of August because his diagonosis was stress at the workplace, see how your life is when you go back to school in septemeber and see if symptoms go away. They have not so I am going back but I want some feedback first. Did the surgery like trigger something in my body? Did the surgeon hit a serious nerve and screw up everything? Is all this stuff have nothing to do with the surgery is it all just a coincidence?

After doing a lot of research trying to figure out whats wrong the closet conditions or disorders that sound like what I have are linking to the thyroid.

•Silent Thyroiditis, it is Thyroiditis that is hard to detect and you go through phases, first hyperthyroidism which causes anxiety, then after 3 months hypothyroidism, which is the opposite, and coincidentally my anxiety disappeared after 3 months, and then you go back to normal, and the cycle repeats for a year. So maybe currently I’m in the hypothyroidism stage?

•Hyperthyroidism

•Hypothyroidism

•Thyroid Cancer

•Encephalitis

These are about the only things I found so far that have most of my symptoms. Any help would be appreaciated. I have a list below of all my symptoms, not all were mentioned up top.

Symptoms in Chronological Order:
•Malaise (I have this big feeling that I don’t feel normal or I don’t feel like what I once was)
•Drowsiness (Gone now)
•Dizziness (Only when I have a headache or come out of an elevator)
•Derealization (Gone now)
•Anxiety (Gone now, though I do worry about whats wrong with me, but no panic attacks)
•Progressive Muscle Weakness (Legs are worse,
amoxicillin was the antibiotic i was on, i took it for 3 days because of its side effects.