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DiscussionDisabling symptoms since distal bicep repair surgery. Any suggestions?
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Oct 17, 2023 | Replies (72)Comment receiving replies
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Thank you for the kind wishes. I am soon undergoing a battery of tests to try to get to the bottom of this. Some symptoms have stabilized, some have improved but others have gotten worse. I’ve now got a pretty bad (sometimes very bad) headache for much of the day and I wake with a buzzing in my head, left ear pounding and roaring along with my head pulsing, and a terrible jittery and shaky feeling. This gets worse as the morning goes on until I am physically ill and vomiting. The suddenly it will get better or move into my chest (I know this sounds weird) where the symptoms feel more heart/gastro related. I think this is what is frustrating my doctor- the symptoms are just all over the place but at the same time mostly pretty severe. Sometimes it seems neurological, sometimes cardiovascular, sometimes hormonal…. I’ve been given a huge battery of tests for autoimmune markers which didn’t show much. The only blood work I have had that came back high was something called a complement total. Between that and my extreme weight loss over the past 7 weeks (despite eating a high calorie diet the past 3 weeks) has the doc sufficiently alarmed. I wasn’t able to get into Mayo but I do have an appointment next month at Iowa City hospitals so hopefully they can figure this out so I can get back to work and on with my life!