Scary Medical Symptoms Doctors Can Find No Cause For.

My mother, sister, and brother all suddenly got double vision that lasted for months. Doctors had theories about what may have caused it, but nothing definitive or conclusive. There's no medication you can take for it. Some prescription glasses can help, but you really just have to wait it out and hope it corrects itself. It interferes with even the most basic functions in your life, including not being able to drive and do simple things like buy groceries by yourself.

Being as three people in my family got it out of the blue leads me to believe it's some genetic defect. I wait in fear for it to happen to me.

Yes, I had symptoms of multiple sclerosis when I turned 30. I kept telling my neurologist I was under extreme amounts of anxiety coupled with exhaustion working 12 hour shifts. He was absolutely astonished when my MRI came back negative…and then came back negative again years later.

Guess what? The symptoms went away when I quit that job. He then tried to tell me it was likely psychosomatic instead of admitting he didn’t know or it could be stress.

R1 could that have been exposure to something like a gas leak or carbon monoxide?

R2 the fact it may have been psychosomatic doesn't mean it wasn't real. A heart attack is "psychosomatic."

It's fibromyalgia!

What’s really scary is how many things can be attributed to stress.

I was getting terrible migraines at a longtime job I had to quit last year. Then I took a new one, which was such a passive aggressive guessing game I started to get migraines again. Then I got laid off. It sucks not to have a paycheck but I feel very healthy. My house is clean now, too.

I did not expect to be a shaky burn-out at 50…but that is life.

R3 I don't think so. They all got it a different times and they weren't living together when they got it.

There was a time at work that was extremely stressful -- I was working with a volatile higher-up who was extremely emotional and was threatening suicide. Looking back, I realize I probably should have told HR, but it was so surreal that I wasn't thinking straight.

Anyway, shortly thereafter I developed these pains in my chest -- slightly to my left. Very, very scary. But extensive testing found absolutely nothing. EKG, blood work, stress test, echo cardiogram, scan with a radiotracer: nada. They never told me it was anxiety, but I think that's what it was. Still, I've never before or never since felt anxiety in that particular physical way. And it's odd that it happened while my stressful work experience had settled down, not in the midst of it.

I was molested.

I have been very, very tired for weeks now.

I had a statistician job that was so stressful my neck muscles froze and I could barely turn my head, even to look both ways at a stop sign. And sitting in my cube, I used to have to remind myself every few minutes to unclench my [italic]toes[/italic] inside my shoes.

I was asked all day every day to prove that there was a statistically significant difference in the number of purchases of a specific product before and after that product's coupon campaign, and there literally [bold]never[/bold] was. The minuscule differences I did manage to find were due to the most meticulous massaging of data I have ever done in my entire life. Yet the sales people always screamed at me, "Did you try [italic]this?[/italic] Didja try [italic]that?[/italic] Drove me FUCKING CRAZY!!!

I lasted a year at that job, but I don't know how I did it. Made good money, though!

"Follies-itis." Every person an affected one meets is put into categories: possible Sally, Phyllis, Buddy, Ben. There is no known cure.

I would get numbness and pain in my arms and hands when I slept. After several in-depth tests by neurologists they found nothing remarkable, only some minimal spinal stenosis, which nobody believed was the cause. I asked if physical therapy would help, only one said yes and gave me a referral. Well after 3 months it made a big difference. I'm perhaps 75% better. I do my stretching and exercises on my own three times a week. I get the numbness & pain less frequently now and they're much less acute.

See if you can get a spinal steroid shot for stenosis. I have had them and they are miracle workers.