How to approach a doctor with all of my symptoms?

How do I go about talking to a doctor about all my symptoms??? Just print out this list of problems I have (probably not even all of them here) and say "What’s wrong with me, doc?" What do I say when scheduling the appointment? They usually ask for a quick description of why you are going. Like you think you have the flu or you might have a UTI. But I have NO idea what all of this is and how I can stop it. I’d be happy if I could even stop just some of these. Because I’m 19 and for so many years I have been in constant pain. And it’s getting to me. Sometimes I just stop and fall to the ground and cry because of how young I am yet how much pain I feel everyday. But I haven’t brought it up the the doctors yet because they never listen when I start saying my symptoms, they always interupt me and are rude. And I’m so uncomfortable about them I hate talking to them.

–Migraines (basically continuous, headaches every single day, migraines at least 4 times a month)
–At least 4 or 5 times a day I have to take a big breath in and breathe out deeply. Even when I am sitting down doing nothing. I’m just forced to take a deep breath.
–I get cold-like-symptoms in heat at first. When entering a warm room or higher heat outside I start sneezing like crazy. I do this EVERYWHERE so it’s not an allergy to one specific thing. This goes away within minutes usually. Though when I went from OH to AZ in the winter, I was sneezing constantly for over 2 hours after landing in the warmth. Lungs burning and everything.
–I have cold-like symptoms probably at least 250 out of the 365 days of the year. Colds in the summer are more common than winter.
–Sometimes it feels as if someone is squeezing my heart and it makes it difficult to breathe.
–I have called it my stomach, but evidently it’s below my stomach. Like kidneys and bladder or something. But I would get terrible stabbing and ripping out pains almost twice a week, which would leave me bed-ridden and in screaming pain.
–I get UTI and yeast infections like I get paid to get them :/ It seems like it’s almost constant. I would say almost once a month. The very least, once every two months.
–I get dizzy a lot
–Nauseous a lot
–Memory loss (not really severe, but it’s affected my work and personal life negatively)
–I don’t do too well in the sun. Start having trouble breathing and get dizzy and whatnot.
–Hyper ventilating problems.
–Loss of interest in stuff.
–Loss of interest in sex
–I have problems falling asleep
–Every single night I wake up in the middle of the night between 3-4 am (for at least 2 months, now)
–Sometimes I get the feeling like someone is squeezing my lungs and I have difficulty breathing.
–Bad stomach problems
–When I know I’m going somewhere without a toilet near (like a park) or when I go out in public where there will be people (like a party or something) I get really nervous that I won’t have a bathroom near and I will have to go, so my stomach starts hurting and I have to go to the bathroom like 7 times before I leave to go places.
–I’ve been very on-edge lately and cranky/depressed.
–Random mood spurts where one moment I will be crazily hyper and in a good mood, and others (after hearing a non-nice comment or something) I instantly go to a bad mood and get all b*tchy.
–Randomly I get VERY hot, then moments later I get VERY cold, and so on and so forth.
–When I was younger I would always get strep throat. Like at least twice a year. Now if I get them, they go untreated.
–I recently went to the doctor and got diagnosed with a bad UTI and bad yeast infection after the UTI. The urine came back that I had a ridiculous amount of Protein in it. And 100,000 colonies of e. coli grew overnight in it. And my urine is always cloudy and foamy. Has been for a while. I researched high protein levels and evidently those two things are symptoms, too.
–I get very nervous easily lately. Ex- My bf and I stopped at a "bog" trail. It was surrounded by trees, weeds and such and the bridge/path was very narrow. Normally, I love nature and want to stay in it longer. But a motorcycle guy drove up right after we got out of my car and started walking by my car. So 1/4 the way through I started freaking out that maybe the guy was stealing my car (with my purse in it). So I started breathing heavily and walking fast and basically freaking out. Another thing is After Thanksgiving Day Sales, every time we were in the long lines waiting, I had to stop and get out of line a few times because I got overheated and couldn’t breathe and I had the feeling like I had to go to the bathroom constantly.
-Sometimes I don’t feel like eating for days on end. For two weeks recently I actually had to force myself to eat because I just didn’t feel hungry. I lost almost 15 pounds that two weeks.

 
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One Response to “How to approach a doctor with all of my symptoms?”

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    Undividual Says:

    When booking your appointment, the best way would probably be to say ‘I have a number of symptoms I want to discuss’, and if they ask for specifics, name whichever one you think is most important.
    When you actually see the doctor, be sure to take this list with you, so you don’t forget anything when you’re talking to him. Best wishes.

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