Diarrhea, joint/muscle pain, nausea, lightheaded, night sweats, etc.

Posted by vanessab @vanessab, Mar 4, 2019

Hi everyone. My husband has been sick for so long and we really need to figure it out. He is 42yrs old and before all this was healthy. It started out as what he describes as a very tense stomach, almost like an extreme nervous stomach feeling, around 10 yrs ago. Dr. Diagnosed him with anxiety and IBS and it was manageable for many years. (We dont think it was ever amxiety or ibs) Now in the last 2 years it has become debilitating. That feeling is there constantly 24/7. It wakes him through the night. He also gets pain in the uller left abdomen. He is not anxious at all but yet the feeling persists. Now also in the last 2 years a myriad of other symtoms have come up. Daily diahreah, joint pain, muscle pain, nausea, light headedness, bradycardia (low 40's), low diastolic blood pressure, drenching night sweast, 50 lb weight loss in 3 months , insomnia, syncope, brain fog, extreme fatigue. He was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and sibo over a year ago but even with treatment for both his symptoms are only getting worse. He has had scopes both ends, pill cam, endoscopic ultrasound, gastric emptying, echocardiogram, holter, cardiac stress test, mri of pancreas and surrounding organs, ct of abdomen pelvis and head, numerous ultrasounds and blood work and nothing come up that explain his symptoms. Only small things such and moderately elevated lipase for many years, a thyroid nodule, sinus inflamation on his head ct, high carotene he is orange, low B12, just slightly low hemoglobin, a slight enlarged spleen that is now normal sized, slightly enlarged liver, small kidney cyst on left kidney. We recently sent his blood to Germany to Armin Labs and yersinia and cmv came up but can that really last that long? His stool test was negative for yersinia as well so that is confusing. We are at a total loss. I know the sibo amd hypothyroidism can cause many of his symtpoms but I really feel there is a root cause to all of this. Any suggestions? We have near reached the end of what his gi specialist, endocrinologist, rheumatologist and cardioid can offer. Any ideas on the constant tight stomach as that is his most debilitating symptom. Thank you for your time.

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All my sympathy. Sad that most all well-intentioned advice seems to center on mental and emotional ways to get through. And doctors stumped? And they’ve made every effort? They a team somewhat or individuals? Liver checks out? About family reuniting. Our 33 yo daughter direly ill with blood disorders, AFib, more too. She & older brother (our son) estranged 9-10 years. He doesn’t know she might die. So should we tell him, maybe adding more entrees to her condition? He would come I’m sure. So asked therapist who believes it should be our ill daughter to make any decision about seeing him. He 400 mi away in TX but would see her in a heartbeat. What if she die soon & we have to tell him THEN? I suspect anger from him at us for not having said. We tried to arrange phone call, but no. But he not aware it might have been his last.

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