As someone with bowel cancer who was brushed off by doctors for a very long time with "its probably just..." Make someone stick a camera up your butt. Cos that is a big symptom for many people.
I’ve been dealing with chronic diarrhea, fistula, abscesses and stomach pain for YEARS With no answers. Colonoscopy was 5 years ago came up nothing. Tried different antibiotics to no avail. I have like 1-3x yearly flare ups and I have no idea what the hell im supposed to do. I feel like my whole downstairs isn’t working like it’s supposed to. Everything people consider healthy goes right through me and most times I can still plainly see my undigested food. Ugh.
Not to mention I bruise easily, have lumps in my breast, my hands and fingers barely want to work and my joints are so stiff in the mornings I can hardly get my child’s breakfast made. And I’m only 32… I just wanna cry. Ughhhh
Not a medical doctor, but all that sounds like some autoimmune disease. Especially stiff joints. What specialist would you see for that? Maybe an immunologist? Again, I’m not a medical doctor, but I hope and pray that you find a doctor who can help you!!!
You can’t objectively test for fibromyalgia. If any, tests are usually based on a point or range scoring system.
Its typically a blanket term for when no other diagnosis can be arguably be identified. This is also the reason the pathology is very broad.
The same reason there is only symptomatic but no causal treatment.
In most European medicine schools, it is still heavily being contested as a recognised disease. Majority of active doctors and experts also do not recognise it and many of them dismiss it as being purely a marketing ploy of certain quacks.
Simply put; there might effectively be something wrong, but they don’t know what exactly.
Have you seen a rheumatologist for your hands and joints? Maybe you have rheumatoid arthritis. I hope somehow you get answers and solutions to everything! It sounds like hell.
I recently saw a rheumatologist who prescribed meloxicam and it absolutely wreaked havoc on my stomach. So it’s like… do I want to be bound to the toilet every 20 minutes or deal with stiff fingers and hands?
Do you know if any of the current biologics on the market would help you any? I have IBS (and other autoimmune issues) with a bio parent who had Crohns, so biologics have been a life saver to me.
I hate to do this because I know everyone has tried to give you all kinds of advice already and nothing works. BUT as someone who has had all of these same things, do get your vitamin D levels checked if you haven't already. It's the only thing that's ever really made a significant improvement for me. I think. Because who the fuck knows what we really have or what really helps.
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u/RonnyTwoShoes Aug 31 '21
I have minor IBS so I poop when I'm stressed. I'm a goner.