I haven't been feeling 100% but I haven't been recovering

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Hello - I was diagnosed with AS in 2009. I'll try to keep this as brief as possible since I know how off-putting I myself find long passages of text. Ever since the end of June this year my health hasn't been 100%. All of the intial symptoms would come and go. It started out with times where I would feel light-headed, very faint and also detached from reality. That went but was replaced by attacks of fatigue. Those went and the first set of symptoms came back but not as severe, apart from the feeling of being detached. Only just recently those symptoms have gone to some extent but I've been left feeling "not well" nearly all the time and throughout the whole history of this I haven't had nausea once and I haven't really had any pain apart from 1 or 2 headaches. However I have had depleted energy levels throughout and the feeling of rocking back and forth whilst sitting has started. I have also had a bad flare-up of my excema, which is nearly away thanks to Dead Sea Magik.

I have been drinking plenty of filtered water every day since just after Christmas, I have had ome 30 day supply of Boots pre and pro biotics since the end of June, now finished and when I remember I take a Boots A-Z vitamin tablet. The only other thing is that I've been losing weight since Christmas. I''m really frustrated by it because it started at the end of June and it's now October and I'm still not back to full health. I've been to the doctor, had a blood test, it came back clear, (surprisingly) and I also had an ECG, which came back OK. I've recently started a one morning a week college course, I will be starting a work-placement soon and I'm going on holiday on 9th November. Any ideas please? I will try to provide more info on request but I now need to take a break fron the screen.

Edited to correct a spelling mistake.

From what you say: weight loss; eczema; detached feeling; fatique; I immediately think of stress.

If you feel no better you really should go back to your GP.

Thanks for the reply. I would like to add that the weight loss since Christmas has been intentional and I've been doing well. My appointments with my psychologist have been annoying for the past while as she has been pushy. Plus and without wanting to say too much, my sister's life became complicated in August 2010 so her and her 2 young children have been down nearly every day . . . and I have a very low tolerance for bad behaviour! Plus the noise from the boy racers going through the area where I live has worsened over the past few months. I'll wait for another reply now that I've clarified that the weight loss was intentional and if the suggestion is still stress I'll think about making an appointment with a support worker.

Hopefully the work placement and my upcoming holiday will help relieve any stress that I might have.

You should have your thyroid checked. Make sure they do a full thyroid panel and test you for TPO antibodies as well.

I lived in a block of flats overlooking a dual carriageway that had heavy goods vehicles 4 am - midnight and boy/girl racers every single night from about 9pm until 4 or 5 am, it drove me absolutely mad.
Enjoy your placement and holiday but as Chronos says have another go at your GP.

If I had've lived in that block of flats I would've been on edge all the time. Where I live they go round at various times during the day, setting off my fight or flight response every single time.

I wish I could go back to the doctor but whether or not I go to the doctor's isn't up to me and if I did say I would hear something like: "you've already been to the doctor's twice this year". Once was just for excema in April at the request of my GP then the other time was in August, for this. Apparently all the doctors over here do is arrange a blood test and I've just had the one I mentioned in September, which was clear. (Well I didn't get a phone call).

If it was up to me I would request to see my GP herself this time but it's not up to me. There is one more medical option I could try, I could try going to the pharmacist, he would probably give me something. Other than that I'm thinking of seeing a support worker incase it's stress. I'm thinking that if it's nothing physical then it could be stress.

Thanks for the help so far.