weak arms, tired muscles, no upper body strength

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hello!

i think i am dying.

lately i have like 0% of my usual energy. my arms feel like two sticks with slack rubber bands stretched around them. (they also look surprisingly thin, which is not something you know i am prone to say.) i feel as if i have no upper body strength. there has been no real change to my diet/lifestyle. (i havent been drinking more, if anything less. i am still taking vitamins. i am still trying to hit all the food groups every day. i am still going to the gym on and off.) am i dying? should i go to the doctor? (i probably should, i know, but i only ask because i have no insurance so its not a decision i usually rush into.)

thanx in advance,
strongo
xoxo

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

the rest of me hasn't seem to change size either. just the arms/chest/shoulders region.

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe you have mono.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i have thought about this!

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

or a parasite?

(im not being glib. this happened to a friend.)

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

strongo, in the past i have periodically felt weak in my arm and leg muscles for no apparent reason, to the extent that just shampooing felt like i was exerting myself, and that carrying heavy objects made me feel tired and dizzy. i talked to a doctor about it, though, and she just suggested i needed to get more exercise. (which was true, anyway, since i was/am out of shape.) how severe is it for you?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you have air conditioning? Do you drink enough water?

I'm being serious -- in the summer, I sometimes get dehydrated without realizing it.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

it's pretty bad sometimes. i'll go to close my sliding glass door and the strength i thought was going to be there isn't. which is pretty bad! the thing which threw me off was that this only started AFTER i started going to the gym again.

xpost: yes, and i think so.

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

well if it happened post-gym, you prob just strained your upper back. less intensity, more reps!

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

no! more intensity, less reps!

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

slooooooooooow

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i actually do slow weighlifting but i wouldn't recommend it to anybody with a strained back!

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

if you've been working out with your arms then maybe it's a good thing! muscles get tired when exercised, it's how the flab goes away and real muscle growth begins!

at least that's what i remember from high school.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you wrestle?

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

fresh

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Whatever you do, don't google for the symptoms. You find that whatever symptoms you have, you'll have some form of cancer. This of course hasn't stopped me from googling. *sigh*

Have your blood tested. Maybe you just have a virus.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Nathalie OTM. WebMD is emphatically NOT your friend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

WebMd can make you convince yourself you have the bubonic plague. Yeah, and don't ask your parents either. I mentioned to my mom that I had been really tired lately and she says "I was reading that pamphlet about West Nile Virus..."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

No, seriously, about this time two years I was straight-up convinced that I had chronic fatigue syndrome -- I prob. even mentioned it somewhere on ILX -- and was already mentally preparing for my future as an invalid.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I think having your blood tested is the best way to go. That's what I usually do and recommend people. It doesn't cost that much. If it turns out to be nothing, great, if it turns out to be *bad*, they can help you out. Do you have shortness of breath? Feeling really weak? *Swimming* (uh, I don't know how to translate this)? Cause it might be iron deficiency.

I had chronic fatigue syndrome

I like to believe I have this, but deep down I know I'm just a lazy fat bitch. ;-) (Sorry to those who have this syndrome...)

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

should i go to the doctor? (i probably should, i know, but i only ask because i have no insurance so its not a decision i usually rush into.)

I would wait a couple more weeks, but if you continue to feel this way you should probably see a doctor. Are there any free clinics near where you live? It's probably nothing, but you should have your blood checked in case there might be a problem. A couple of years back I was feeling this way all the time -- no energy, fatigue, etc. and it turned out to be an illness. So it might be better to be safe than sorry.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, N. and N. are wise about the blood-checking.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Sometimes I feel like this and realize it's because I'm fighting off a cold or virus without actually succumbing to it and getting symptoms.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I never feel anything less than supremely powerful and deeply potent.

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, and don't ask your parents either.
Totally. I once had to go to the doctor for a bump. I was scared enough as it was, but she kept going on and on about various cancer treatment options I might look into. It turned out it was an ingrown hair!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

go to a doctor

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't trust doctors anymore, they don't work!

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Do I sound like Tom Cruise?

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, you are probably jumping on the couch as you post.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Blood test is a smart idea. How are your sinuses? I find that sinus problems can give me strange feelings of weak-limbedness, but I don't think it's ever localized to my upper body. Also, I don't remember it affecting my chest.

― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

(In other words: it sounds nothing like my sinus related symptoms, but that's the filter through which I view all possible maldies.)

― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I always feel tired and weak. Like Jaymc, I too thought I had CFS at one point. I have found, though, if I get 8 hours of sleep, exercise, try to eliminate high GI carbs and dairy, I feel right as rain.

Of course I don't do this as much as I should and as a result feel like poo.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

could really be mono - I just heard about two people who currently have it and NO, they do not even know one another. Blood work in order if not better in a couple of weeks. Feel better and REST!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll bet the minute you stop calling yourself "strongo hulkington" this clears right up

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, diagnosis: high standards

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Stop going to the fershlugginer gym, it's draining you of precious bile!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

You have lost your superhero powers! Oh Nooooooo!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

It's like Superman II, when he sees his blood for the first time.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

HOw many pushpops I need to do for musculer???? I have done seven :))))

― f_rankle, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.houseofrave.com/media/candy/push-pops-big.jpg

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link

do 14 den u wil be set 4 life !!!!!!!!!!!!:))))))))>>>>

― open wide, come inside, it's apple butter (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Your tongue might be a funny color though.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link

It did one again another!!! FInd very diffecult but I am stronger due :))

THank you.

― f_rankle, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link

TIP streth aftewords othrwise u wil shrinc like a crab an had 2 go 2 hosbitel

― open wide, come inside, it's apple butter (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link

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