Hello, this is my first post on this website and I pray to God that someone can help me with my condition.
I am a 26 year old male who has been very active and healthy all of my life, I guess I will just start this story when my life turned upside down. I have always been the type of person to try make everyone happy, so it all began when I started working a new job about 3 years ago. My mom suggested that I work at a food production factory closeby to where we lived. As soon as I started I knew that this is not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, but I continued to work there to please her and I was also was lacking confidence in myself to interview for a better job because of my stuttering condition that I have had all of my life. I continued to work at this job for a year as a temporary hire, getting paid very little, even though I was required to be at work at 5 in the morning, working 6 days a week. I worked around a lot of flour and different kinds of powder, because I was working in an area that made dough for cheese and spinach flavored pasta. I was also required to lift a lot of heavy trash cans, up to 100 pounds each. I felt like I was stuck doing this job that I absolutely hated, and my back started really hurting almost constantly
So about a year of working under these conditions, one can imagine the frustration and anger that I was dealing with inside of myself, all while trying to please others and try my best to be friendly and optimistic at work. Then one day while working near the spinach powder, I noticed my nose started running and my eyes getting itchy. I started sneezing nonstop and could not hardly breathe. I forced myself to continue working until the end of my shift, but immediately went to the Ears, Nose, and Throat doctor. They told me that I had allergic rhinitis. They gave me a 80mg shot of depo medrol and another corticosteroid oral medication to take for a few weeks after I left. That was an instant relief for my rhinitis, but whenever I would work around the spinach powder at work, the symptoms would come right back. The crazy thing about this is I used to work around the spinach powder when I first started the job and was completely fine. I have never been able to figure out why I suddenly had those flare ups after a year of being able to work without any allergies to any of the ingredients.
So then, as silly as this may sound, I noticed that my libido had took a very drastic fall a few weeks after visiting the doctor. I read online that corticosteroids, such as depo medrol could cause adrenal fatigue and leave the person with chronic low energy levels and little to no sexual desire. This was so terrifying to me. I was experiences these exact symptoms! Whenever I got off work, I didn't have any motivation to do anything, I would literally get home and lay down, with pain all around my back, and when I inhaled it felt like someone was stabbing my in the back.
I continued to live with low libido, chronic back pain, and allergic rhinitis for the next 2 years and then I got introduced to Dr. Sarno's work on YouTube. I had been going to chiropractors and massage therapists up until this point, and I have completely stopped. I have always thought that whenever I left my current job, everything was going to return back to normal, and the symptoms would go away. Well, coincidentally, I had to call off from work about a month ago and use a vacation day from being in so much pain and I just got let go because apparently my vacation day was not approved. I know most people would be scared and devastated to lose their job like this, but I felt a sense of relief when I walked out of those doors. I know everything happens for a reason and now I hope I can get to the bottom of this and finally live my life the way the way I want to.
I am asking if anyone has any experience with these related symptoms to please help me and guide me in the right direction to full recovery. Thank you so much!
I am a 26 year old male who has been very active and healthy all of my life, I guess I will just start this story when my life turned upside down. I have always been the type of person to try make everyone happy, so it all began when I started working a new job about 3 years ago. My mom suggested that I work at a food production factory closeby to where we lived. As soon as I started I knew that this is not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, but I continued to work there to please her and I was also was lacking confidence in myself to interview for a better job because of my stuttering condition that I have had all of my life. I continued to work at this job for a year as a temporary hire, getting paid very little, even though I was required to be at work at 5 in the morning, working 6 days a week. I worked around a lot of flour and different kinds of powder, because I was working in an area that made dough for cheese and spinach flavored pasta. I was also required to lift a lot of heavy trash cans, up to 100 pounds each. I felt like I was stuck doing this job that I absolutely hated, and my back started really hurting almost constantly
So about a year of working under these conditions, one can imagine the frustration and anger that I was dealing with inside of myself, all while trying to please others and try my best to be friendly and optimistic at work. Then one day while working near the spinach powder, I noticed my nose started running and my eyes getting itchy. I started sneezing nonstop and could not hardly breathe. I forced myself to continue working until the end of my shift, but immediately went to the Ears, Nose, and Throat doctor. They told me that I had allergic rhinitis. They gave me a 80mg shot of depo medrol and another corticosteroid oral medication to take for a few weeks after I left. That was an instant relief for my rhinitis, but whenever I would work around the spinach powder at work, the symptoms would come right back. The crazy thing about this is I used to work around the spinach powder when I first started the job and was completely fine. I have never been able to figure out why I suddenly had those flare ups after a year of being able to work without any allergies to any of the ingredients.
So then, as silly as this may sound, I noticed that my libido had took a very drastic fall a few weeks after visiting the doctor. I read online that corticosteroids, such as depo medrol could cause adrenal fatigue and leave the person with chronic low energy levels and little to no sexual desire. This was so terrifying to me. I was experiences these exact symptoms! Whenever I got off work, I didn't have any motivation to do anything, I would literally get home and lay down, with pain all around my back, and when I inhaled it felt like someone was stabbing my in the back.
I continued to live with low libido, chronic back pain, and allergic rhinitis for the next 2 years and then I got introduced to Dr. Sarno's work on YouTube. I had been going to chiropractors and massage therapists up until this point, and I have completely stopped. I have always thought that whenever I left my current job, everything was going to return back to normal, and the symptoms would go away. Well, coincidentally, I had to call off from work about a month ago and use a vacation day from being in so much pain and I just got let go because apparently my vacation day was not approved. I know most people would be scared and devastated to lose their job like this, but I felt a sense of relief when I walked out of those doors. I know everything happens for a reason and now I hope I can get to the bottom of this and finally live my life the way the way I want to.
I am asking if anyone has any experience with these related symptoms to please help me and guide me in the right direction to full recovery. Thank you so much!
