use this table to determine if you may need to see a doctor

Go get a pen and paper and read each question and make a check mark for every yes and a X for every no

Do you feel fatigued even after a full night's rest, and extremely tired all day from the minute you get up to the minute you go to bed? (I am talking eye burning, I have not slept in weeks feeling)	yes	no
Does your body have a constant and consistent state of pain? It can be dull pain, sharp pain, achy pain, and it can be muscle, musculoskeletal, and joints.	yes	no
Chronic migraines? (Meaning at least 15 times a month and may include but not limited to a migraine is a pulsating, excruciating awful pain that can cause nausea. It tends to start either in your neck or behind your eyes and tends to only be on one side, but can alternate sides. Vision problems, debilitating and a stiff neck)	yes	no
Unexplained fevers, particularly low-grade fevers on a pretty consistent basis	yes	no
Sudden changes in weight usually accompanied by another one of these symptoms and the weight change has to be unexplained.	yes	no
Irritable bowels or overactive bladder? (This includes the inability to hold your urine at all or bowels, having difficulty going to the bathroom and other issues)	yes	no
Unexplained weakness when standing or moving	yes	no
Unexplained "flu-like symptoms" after doing anything physical, including exercise, working, standing, walking normally, etc.?	yes	no
Stuff like shortness of breath from doing simple tasks like making the bed (and not being out of shape, so something that is a sudden new thing happening or isn't related to any other illness like asthma or COPD or even Long Covid)	yes	no
Whole body stiffness making it difficult to make movements	yes	no
Overall decrease in mood in connection with any other symptom	yes	no

Ok, how are your results? Did you say yes to any of these? Then write down exactly what your issue is and bring it to your doctor's attention, EVEN IF IT'S ONE OF THESE because this whole chart describes general symptoms of most chronic disorders. If it's affecting your daily life, affecting your moods, affecting your relationships, it's always important and worth bringing up to a doctor. There are plenty of conditions that can be picked up on a test, but there are also plenty that are not, and that is important to know. Just because your blood panel and scans are all clean does not mean you do not have something wrong. A LOT of conditions need to be diagnosed through exclusion (which means being patient). Those conditions are as follows:

• Fibromyalgia

• Long Covid

• PCOS

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

• Lyme Disease (delayed diagnoses)

  And countless others. These are called through exclusion conditions. However, some of these can be delayed like Lyme disease due to the lack of symptoms, or for some of these, there are other small tests that may signify something is wrong but not exactly what. Like for me, inflammation comes back sometimes on my test, especially if I am in a flare-up, that tells the doctors something is either inflamed from an illness or from something underlying and chronic. Sometimes blood cell count tests can give hints that there's an issue but not what issue. For example, my red cell count is always higher, even if it's a tad, but higher than my white cell count, which is stating my immune system is in overdrive. That automatically is going to count out all the chronic conditions that are caused by an immune deficiency disorder (there's immune deficient, immunocompromised, and autoimmune diseases). That's why it's dangerous when I get sick with a virus; your body works hard to get rid of the virus, but my body is already working hard, so now it's working even harder, requiring me to go on steroids to give my immune system a break, making me more autoimmune. However, I also get sick often; you can have a secondary.

Here's the breakdown of all three:

Immunocompromised

• A state of being more susceptible to infection 

• Can be caused by an immunodeficiency or by taking certain medications that suppress the immune system 

Immunodeficiency

• A condition where the immune system doesn't respond properly to infection 

• People with immunodeficiency are more likely to get sick 

• Can be inherited (primary immunodeficiency) or acquired (secondary immunodeficiency) 

Autoimmune disease

• A condition where the immune system attacks healthy cells in the body 

• Can be caused by an overactive immune system 

• Examples of autoimmune diseases include type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease 

and if you are real licky maybe having a mix of all of them. That only going to happen if you have more than one disease, and ALOT if not ALL of chronic conditions are at least co morbid

So basically unless any of these symptoms are explained are associated with a condition you already have, it needs to be brought up.

Unless linked or sourced, This is all based on personal experience, this is not medical advice and shouldn't be taken as.

Sources from: Immune Deficiency Foundation Yale Medicine CSL