Hi all,
I’ve been living in Tokyo for about 3 months now. About 5 weeks ago, I got very sick with very strange symptoms. Abdominal pain, muscle pain, dizziness, malaise, random fevers, etc.
Went to an internal medicine clinic twice, medication didn’t clear it up, he was mystified.
Went to a different internal medicine clinic, he gave me antibiotics because there was protein in my urine, they didn’t do anything either. I’m waiting on general bloods from that clinic now (he wouldn’t check for anything else yet).
There’s a very large history of autoimmune illness in my family, I already have one chronic illness (unrelated to any of the symptoms), I suspect it’s autoimmune.
The problem is, I’ve now been feeling terrible every single day for almost five weeks. I can’t get the train because getting to the station makes me feel so sick and dizzy. I work part time as a teacher – I’ve been calling in sick almost every lesson because even standing up is really bad. Even sitting up in bed sucks most of the time. I can barely make it two minutes to the conbini.
What on earth do I do now? I don’t think I’m an emergency (as in, I don’t think I’m going to die) but my boyfriend has had to do everything for me for 5 weeks and I’m semi bedbound. Before this I was completely active. It feels like going through internal medicine could take another month.
I am not familiar enough with how things work in Japan to know if I should just be calling an ambulance and going to the hospital? I can’t keep dealing with this for much longer, but I don’t want to create an emergency if this isn’t one. I am writing this with a low grade fever lol.
I don’t have much Japanese, but I am learning and can get by on Google translate. I have NHI and live in Nerima.
Any help very much appreciated!!!
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