AboutJurriaan Plesman Expertise I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. I am interested in the connection between mood disorders and nutrition. I have had many years of counselling people with a variety of emotional problems, such as Depression, Anxiety Attacks and Self-Esteem Problems, Drug Addiction and Alcoholism, Gambling, as well as the whole gamut of personality disorders.
I am also the editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia. Its web site, with a self-help course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited free of charge at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Experience
Organizations Editor of the Hypoglycemic health Association of Australia
web site;
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Publications Author of the book:
"Getting off the Hook", It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search.
Education/Credentials Graduated in Psychology at Sydney University and Post Grad Dipl In Clinical Nutrition and Psychotherapy
Question for about a year now, things have been very, very stressful in my life, but i have always been able to keep it together. just over a week ago, i started feeling terrible pressure in my head along with a strange feeling that the ground below me was moving. it felt like i was on a boat and an airplane at the same time. i thought i was going to pass out, but my boyfriend and i decided that we had been very stressed and thought that sleep would help. the following day, i was still feeling the terrible pressure in my head, like i could barely hold it up, and my hands/forearms were tingling. i felt very foggy, as though i was outside of my body. i left work early and went to urgent care. they took a urine test and told me that i was pregnant and that what i was feeling was totally normal. i went home, told my boyfriend, and we both were overjoyed and excited that this was happening. i was still feeling very detached from reality and had some head pressure, but i thought this was because i was pregnant. then, low and behold, i got my period on monday. we rushed to the emergency room, where they took blood and said that i was never even pregnant at all. i asked why i was feeling this way, and she said it may be sinuses and gave me flonase. this did not help in the least. i have been feeling so much pressure in my head that i feel like i am going to fall over. i am so scared, and it truly feels like i am going to die. for the past 4 days now, i have been feeling out of my body and have been having spurts of hysterical crying. this past friday evening, my symptoms were so bad that i went BACK to the emergency room. this time, a sinus infection was diagnosed and i was given antibiotics. this is my third full day on the antibiotics, but i still am having horrible problems. i still have pressure in my head, but i just have this terrible feeling that there really is no sinus infection at all, and that it is something much more horrible. i have been having terrible panic attacks with crying and shaking and tingling in my hands. it really does feel like i'm not going to make it. i have never been through anything like this in my life and i really need help! there have also been bad thoughts about my past, things that i have done that i regret, and i fear that i have to now face the consequences by having something terrible come over me. i keep thinking that god must have sent me to the doctor for some reason, that i had a false positive on the pregnancy test so that they would do the prenatal blood work and discover that really something else is wrong with me. i feel completely insane and like i am never going to be normal again. even reading this post over again i feel like a total quack! do you have any advice for me?
Answer Dear cathy,
Of course, I cannot tell you what the matter is. The first step is to get a referral to a neurologist to make sure there is no medical condition that could account for these symptoms. If doctors cannot find a reason it is quite likely that you may be suffering from hypoglycemia. But any medical condition must be excluded before we can make that assumption.
and ask for a referral to a Nutritional Doctor, a Clinical Nutritionist or a Nutritional Psychologist.
I sincerely hope that you will be able to solve the problem.
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Jurriaan Plesman
Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author of "Getting off the Hook"
Freely available at Google Book Search
Skype: jurplesman
