Symptom: Headache, stomach ache, dizzy and breathing difficulties?

Question

Hi all,

I've a female friend who always have headache, stomach ache, feeling dizzy and recently just told me about breathing difficulties. She can't breathe hard cos' when she does, she will feel a slight pain in her chest. Headache started long time ago but as for stomache ache, I'm not very sure.

She is kind of girl who only active at night and sleepy and weak in the day. She always stay up late till midnight and slept around average of 3 am. She seldom drinks water and are picky at food. She doesn't like to eat stalk of vegetables, tomato, milk and food that are nutritious, etc. She always like to help people more that taking care of herself. I can feel that she something might be over-straining herself. Please help her.

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I'm not sure about the problems and eager to find out the possible solutions. I need your help. Thanks alot!

Only recently that she starts to eat little. Easily gets full.

Answer 1

Other than the breathing difficulties, her symptoms are coming from not eating enough and not drinking enough water. When I get too busy to eat or drink, I get the same way. When I'm dehydrated, I get really bad headaches and sick to the stomach. When I don't eat, I get shaky and weak. She also could have a blood sugar issue as a result from this.

I would take her to a dietitian. He/she will give her the help she needs. Until then, get her to drink more fluids like juice, water, and powerade. If she doesn't get help soon, she could develop conditions like diabetes or hypoglycemia (if she doesn't have them already.) Don't be offended, but she could also have anorexia nervousa.

Answer 2

Sounds like a migraine to me. Bad headache, and the only way it's relieved is when you throwup. It's happened to me a couple times. It hasn't happened in a while though. Once, I woke up and was fine except around my eyes I saw silver shinyness... kinda like how people say they see stars. I had read a couple months earlier that seeing this in the corner of your eyes can occur about an hour or so before a migraine. I got up, went to school, and by the time I got to school I was getting a headache and the sight around the corners of my eyes I was seeing was going away, but the headache was getting worse. Then I got nauseous. Then I decided to go to the office. My headache was still bad but I was more focused on the nausea because I hate throwing up. About a half hour later I threwup. After that, I felt ok, my headache was pretty much gone, so I layed down and felt fine. When you get these headaches are you also sensitive to light and sound, etc? It sounds like migraines to me. Talk to your doctor and he/she may prescribe medications to take. My dad and sister get migraines but they take medications that helps a lot.

Answer 3

Sounds like possible heart issues. She needs to see a doctor

Answer 4

hi

i used to have the same problem it is all gastric problem as for the chest pain i think it is just heartburn. it is not a serious problem go see a GP and take med drink more water and everything will be fine