Digestion problems
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Diagnosed about 5 years ago with sjogrens. Started with severe pain in my right side under my ribs. Two weeks in hospital. Three X-rays. Two ct scans and many untrasounds. My gall bladder was found to have 0% function so we got rid of it. Never had my doctor seen a gall bladder with no function at all. Pain subsided so though all was good. I've always had digestion issues. Self diagnosed IBS. Now the pain has returned. Only this time on my left side. Feels like a constant runners cramp. X-rays showed I was full of stool. Trying my best to get rid of it but still don't seem to have a solid poop. Dry eyes and dry mouth are just my "normal" that I have learned to live with. But this pain and digestion issues are taking over my life!! Guess I need to get on board with a specialist sooner rather than later. Thanks for reading. Just looking to see if anyone has similar symptoms!?
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amkoffee Slippbakk
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Unfortunately I've had several impacted colons which is the official name for what you have. What will clear you out is something called magnsium citrate. Get yourself two bottles of it and drink the first bottle, wait 12 hours and if you still aren't cleaned out take the other bottle.
My guess is that you got constipated taking pain pills for your surgery. That is a common problem. If that is the case and you've never had constipation before then you probably won't have to do anything else. But if you have a constant problems then you should use Merilax once every day. It will keep you regular as clock work.
amkoffee Slippbakk
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I've been reading all these post about hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism with interest. I suffer from hypothyroidism and I found I had to go to and endocrinologist because my GP insisted that my levels were within the normal range . But I went to an endocrinologist because he his normal range was different than my GPs and I felt like I should be being treated for hypothyroidism . So I see an endocrinologist now ever since I started . His opinion is that my upper level should never be above a three but my GPs opinion was that my upper level should not be above a five . And that discrepancy made all the difference to me and my body . I first went to the doctor because like you I was working out and dieting and had been being successful when all of a sudden I stop losing weight and started feeling very sleepy . So my doctor ran the blood test and the rest is history . One thing that no one mentioned in the conversation was about Addison's disease. Addison's disease is actually quite rare and can be deadly . But it does have something to do with the thyroid and the cortisol that your body produces. So it is something we definitely want to consider as well especially if you're having symptoms as much as lily did where she's lost hair and number of other symptoms. And lastly Lily you might want to consider seeing a dermatologist who might very well be able to get your hair to grow back .
lily65668 amkoffee
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Hi amkoffee,
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm afraid my hair loss was too long ago now to be reversed. It also went on for too long before I managed to get myself put on thyroxine. It started about 12 years ago and went on for about 5 years. Hair loss due to an underactive thyroid is only reversible (and still only partly so) in the immediate aftermath. After all this time the affected follicles will be long dead. Still, the good news is that it stopped once I got put on thyroxine 7 years ago, and hasn't got any worse since.
It's annoying that some doctors are so conservative about starting patients on L-thyroxine, which is basically just a synthetic copy of something the body produces anyway, while they'll happily pump them full of other potentially harmful drugs, even in cases where they're not strictly necessary. Statins are a case in point...
Over here, the view is that TSH levels shouldn't be above 4.5mU/L, but mine were never below 8 and were way higher than that by the time I finally got treated. However, as my T4 was always around 10-12mU/L (low end of normal) my GP absolutely insisted I wasn't hypo. You're lucky you found someone to treat yours before it had gone too far.
I've actually heard far worse stories than mine. One of my mother's friends in the UK, a childless widow, was getting very tired and depressed when she was in her 70s. She kept going to her female GP, who rather insultingly asked her: "What have you got to look forward to?" as if it was all in her mind and she was right to feel worthless. One day her hairdresser noticed massive hair loss and advised her to go to her doctor. She asked to see a different doctor at her practice, who tested her for blood thyroid levels (apparently they don't do it automatically in the UK) and immediately started her on L-thyroxine.
I wouldn't worry about Addison's disease. As you say, it's incredibly rare. Addison's is a primary failure of the adrenal glands and not connected with thyroid disease, except insofar as both are endocrine glands.
amkoffee lily65668
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I'm sorry that you had such a significant hair loss that is not reversible. I have alopecia and when it first started I lost over half my hair but the dermatologist was able to get it to grow back. Now I get a small bald spot now and then and I just go to the dermatologist for some injections into my scalp. I've known one person who had Addison disease and she almost died before they got her diagnosis.