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. 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.
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.
