I am at my wits end with my health.
I'm so upset, depressed, and worried about
it that I never leave my house anymore
except for work. Here's my
story......
During the summer I started noticing I was
fatigued and it got harder and harder to
wake up in the morning. I was
constantly feeling lightheaded, brain fog,
and an inability to concentrate.
Sometime around sept. I started
noticing some blood and a little bit of
mucous in my stool. I panicked. I
started self medicating myself with some
year old penicillin v 500 mg tablets for
over a week. I knew that wasn't smart
so I decided to go see my doc. He
asked me about my symptoms, I explained I
had also been feeling fatigued, bloated
alot, my skin felt different and my hair
was starting to thin. He said I needed
to de-stress. After an inspection he
discovered an internal hemorrhoid. He
prescribed me with some suppositories
(which I wasn't very faithful to) and told
me to start drinking metamucil and
senekot.
Later in september I went out drinking one
night with friends. I woke up the next
morning feeling nauseas and hungover.
A few days went by after that and I
noticed that the nausea was still there
and I still felt like crap. I was
feeling a strange discomfort in my left
midsection regularly. There was also
strange heart palpitations. I ended up
going to a wedding that month as well and
spent the entire night lightheaded, warm,
ready to pass out, and feeling a major
discomfort in the stomach pancreatic
region. In oct., went back to the doc
with the symptoms, he ran a cbc which came
out completely normal. My ana came out
negative and my allergin test showed only
a slight allergy to milk so slight my doc
said it barely turned up.
I was still feeling like hell. I
noticed my eyes started getting irritated
looking, they felt dry, there was alot of
pressure behind them and my vision started
to blur (especially at night). I was
getting alot of headaches. I still had
that nausea going on. My neck felt
strained all the time. The padding on
my big right toe started feeling numb.
I read up on diabates, thryoid problems
and pancreatitis and decided to revisit
the doc about them on nov. 5th. He
told me that my glucose levels were fine
so it couldn't be diabetes. I told him
I wanted to do a thryoid panel because I
felt so familiar with the symptoms I had
read. He did and the results from
nov.5th were:
tsh 3.289 (limits 0.350-5.500)
thyroxine t4 4.4 (limits 4.5-12.0)
t3 uptake 37 (limits 24-39)
free thyroxine index 1.6 (limits 1.2-4.9)
sedimentation rate-westergren 0 (limits
0-15)
amylase, serum 74 (limits 0-99)
lipase, serum 32 (limits 0-59)
thyroid peroxidase (tpo) ab 17 (limits
0-34)
my doc was like "well it looks like you
were right, your t4 is a little low." he
prescribed me .025mg's of levothyroxine,
but took more blood to do a deeper panel.
I took the levo for nearly a week, felt
a little bit better, still a little
nauseas, but I noticed my tongue became
noticeably swelled and my throat kind of
hurt. On nov. 12th my doc got back
the results from the second panel and he
had his nurse call me to tell me to stop
taking the medication. So I stopped.
The results were:
tsh 2.3 (limits 0.350-5.500)
thyroxine t4 5.4 (limits 4.5-12.0)
t3 uptake 38 (limits 24-39)
free thyroxine index 2.1 (limits 1.2-4.9)
thyroid peroxidase (tpo) ab 15 (limits
0-34)
antithyroglobulin ab <20 (limits 0-40)
people on other medical boards i'm a
member of have told me i'm clearly
hypothyroid. Throughout all of this my
doc has seemed genuinely uninterested in
what's going on and I just don't feel
confident in what he's doing to help me
out. Since that nov. 12th visit
i've still felt like complete turd.
Muscles cramp alot in the morning, joints
clicking all the time. My bouts with
nausea continue. Eyes still bothering
me. I came home from work one evening
with a massive headache, felt warm, and my
groin and right testicle felt painful.
Since then the testicle pain has
persisted. The back of my head around
the lower base still feels full on a
consistent basis. My neck still feels
strained and is constantly tight. My
ears ache at times. Sometimes the area
near my kidneys feels tighter.
I'm a flippin' mess and i'm so depressed
about it. I'm a 26 year old male.
I'm 5'11 and weight 162 lbs. I work in
the restaurant biz waiting tables. I'm
up on my feet all day long working a
tremendous amount of hours. My eatings
habits have been extremely erradic, maybe
2 to 3 meals a day. For a long string
of months I was getting next to no sleep,
sometimes feeling insomniac, other nights
staying out too late. I was drinking
quite a bit with friends, we'd be out
every fri-sat-sun night. We also had a
tendency to binge drink. I remember
thinking a while back that my body was
starting to break down from the cycle of
stressful work, no sleep, bad eating, and
drinking too much. Stress has been my
enemy for quite some time as well. If
you were to rank me on a stress scale of 1
to 10, i'd be a 15. The past 9 months
of my life have been absolutely brutal and
it doesn't help that i've been privately
battling depression and anxiety problems
over the past few years.
I should note that I still tried to
maintain a workout from march thru
september. I remembered seeing a
report on hyponeutremia on hbo's real
sports where they indicated that drinking
too much water can be harmful. I
remember that during my workouts (3 to 4
days a week) i'd compulsively drink from
my gigantic water jug i'd bring with my to
the gym. I swear I went through 3 or 4
refills in a one hour's workout. After
those workouts i'd be peeing all night
long.
I also started developing a strange
craving for sugar around the summer time.
My diet had changed in a sense that I
was now eating breakfasts every morning
(which I had never done for years), but I
was craving sweets after every meal.
I've never been a sweets guy, not since I
was a child. It got to the point where
I was like "bro, you've had enough sweets
for one day.
Sorry for boring you all with this. I
just don't know what to do.
Somebody had recommended I look into
candida albicanus (yeast). They told
me to stop eating pastas, breads, and
sugars and start get an a live-cultured
bacterial regimen. I started taking
biok's 50 billion strain acidophilus.
I noticed right away my skin started
feeling and looking so much better. My
hair stopped the thinning and it had it's
moisture back to it. But those are the
only improvements i've seen.
