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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
@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?
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I am only 35 years old, so I think it would be really unusual for someone my age to have pancreatic cancer. I actually asked my GP if I might have this disease and she said no because my pancreatic enzymes have been tested in repeated blood tests and they are always normal. Also, I had a upper right quadrant ultrasound and my pancreas appeared normal, no sign of anything wrong with it from that imaging test.
The inside of my fingers are yellow and my eyes have some yellow in them, but in all of the blood tests I have had done, my bilirubin is always in the low end of the normal range. So my heptalogist and GP says I don't have true jaundice because they say it is elevated billirubin levels in the blood that indicate and cause jaundice, which I don't have at all. So they are not sure why I have the yellowing because my blood tests are normal.
Also, I have read symptoms of pancreatic cancer, and I don't have most of them. So I think it is unlikely I have that disease.
Only abnormality on upper right quadrant ultrasound was fatty liver, everything else looked normal. Bile duct looked normal in ultrasound.
BTW, I stopped taking Adderall almost as soon as my symptoms started in May 2020. I first tried to space out my taking of the drug and going with a lower dosage but when symptoms persisted I quit taking it altogether and that was in May of 2020.
I do not take any prescription drugs now b/c I do not want to put any more strain on liver or body. I only take vitamins, herbs, and herbal teas.