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Feeling quite ill for over a year - not yet been diagnosed.
Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Mar 31, 2023 | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
I also want to mention I feel intense anxiety/panic at night when I go outside and see a pitch black, starry sky. Outer space and the meaning of existence and the mystery of the universe feels me with terror with what it all means and why it exists. I have this sense when I look at night starry sky that I am dying and will have to soon leave Earth and my life behind and I wonder what I will experience after death. My mind has this sense I will end up somewhere else in outer space. Before this chronic illness, I did not have these types of feelings or thoughts, I did not give any thought to night starry skies or outer space. I don't know why I have these sorts of thoughts with this illness, it is so weird and surreal.
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@cosimax505 I always see ads for a prescription drug that talk about tardive diskenesia that is a side effect of taking drugs for depression and it talks about involuntary movements, etc. This is another prescription to treat those side effects. Sometimes side effects of drugs are the last thing doctors would think about. Have you asked your doctors or pharmacist if your symptoms could be explained by a drug side effect? It's good that you were checked for gall stones because of pale colored stools. That happened to me once and was caused by supplements that I was taking to detox my body. I got too much and it became an overdose and probably caused swelling of the bile duct. I had an ultrasound to check, but they didn't find anything. It took several days to resolve after I stopped everything and everything returned to normal. Pale colored stool can also be a symptom of compression of the bile duct externally by a mass for example pancreatic cancer because the pancreas sits right under the liver near the bile duct. Light colored stools and yellowing of the eyes (jaundice) can also be symptoms of pancreatic cancer. Here is Mayo's information on that.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pancreatic-cancer/symptoms-causes/syc-20355421
It's something to ask your doctor about. Ask if there has been imaging done that would rule out cancer near the bile duct. Jaundice also happens when the liver is overloaded with drugs. My mom was overdosed on pain drugs while in the hospital which caused her to become jaundiced temporarily. It is good you are working with a liver specialist. Are you still taking the prescription for Adderall? Here is some information about long term side effects that list some very similar symptoms to what you are describing?
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/adderall/long-term-effects
Would you be willing to discuss possible side effects and toxicity of your prescriptions with your doctor?