In the past few days I have had some weird symptoms and they are scaring me. I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and I am in pain a lot but the pain has felt strange in the past few days, like how it feels when you get stitches and the area is numb (you know it hurts but the pain feels weird). Also, yesterday I took some of my pain medication but it didn't work (it hasn't worked today either), I normally only take 2 as needed but this time 2 didn't work so I took 4 and it didn't work, I continued taking the maximum directed dose over a period of 20 hours and I felt nothing. I gave up at the end of the day and took sleep medication. It didn't work either so I took as much of that as was directed and when that didn't work I took something else that ended up not working either. I ended up unable to sleep all night long. I finally fell asleep at around 10am. I must stress that I have taken everything as directed and all of those medications are ones that I have taken before.
Yesterday and today I have not been able to feel either hungry or full. After not eating for over half of the day yesterday I figured that I would eat something even though I wasn't hungry, I ate a lot and just stopped eating because I was surprised at how much I had eaten so far. I was in no way full. Another scary symptom is that my fingers and toes have been getting very "cold", I mean to say that they have felt strange and when I check them to see what the deal is they are very cold like I had been outside in the snow (there is no reason whatsoever for them to be cold). It was hard for me to tell this because for the past couple of days "hot" and "cold" have felt different to me. I can only describe it as a minty feeling, like when you chew spearmint gum and it feels cold in your mouth. I can still tell the difference between hot and cold, except earlier today when I was running a bath I put my fingers under the faucet to see how warm it was and it took me a few seconds to realize that it was very very hot water.
It scares me that I feel so disconnected from my body, from the ability to actually feel things physically. I ran into the side of my doorway earlier and I knew it should hurt but it didn't. It's like when you are drunk and you aren't really aware of your body the way you would be if you were sober, except I have not been drinking. It's like my proprioception is just very off somehow.
I really don't think it has anything to do with the medications I am taking, just in case anyone is thinking that. I have barely taken anything today, because I wanted to see if things changed, but nothing has. Things have actually gotten worse, but I don't think that has anything to do with my medication because I have been taking the same medications for CFS for years.
I am pretty scared, does anyone know what might be wrong?
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