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Medical Forum / General / General / January 2006Am I "ill" or just paranoid?
Hi folks. Hope this forum is better than some others! I have a strange set of symptoms - don't know if they are related or just coincidence. Here goes! (Background - healthy (?) female, 46, history of Hypoglycemia but nothing else.) For months now, I have had a problem with night sweats. Not menopausal. I wake up drenched some nights, with puddles on my chest. I have noticed that if I eat a lot of sugar before going to sleep this is abated somewhat, but not always. I sleep in a cool room. I do have to be careful about the sugar because of the Hypoglycemia, as if I eat a lot of sugar during the day I have problems with that. On top of this, I am experiencing miserable, intense itching. My back is always itchy, and it seems to spread and get worse. Sometimes the palms of my hands itch so bad, along with the soles of my feet. Other times it is the inside of my elbows. Or my chest. The itching sometimes feels like it is too far below the surface of the skin to get any relief from scratching. Occasionally when I wake up I find small scabs from scratching at night, usually my elbows and face. Finally, since this summer I have had a pain/lump in the back of my left thigh. There is a noticeable lump there. Sitting puts pressure on the lump and the thigh aches. (Like if I was sitting on an object that was pressing into the thigh.) In the past few days the pain has spread, moving mostly upwards. Sometimes the whole leg aches, and feels almost like I have overexercised and worn it out. A tired, worn out leg. The pain moves into the hip area as well. Nothing relieves the pain - it's always there, sitting, standing, lying. Some days it's worse than others, but always present. No bruising or discoloration. No unexplained weight loss. (I wish!). Occasional fevers, but I run a lower than normal body temp anyway. Difficulty swallowing at times. Vision going to he**. Thinning hair. Tired. And so on. Am I just aging poorly all of a sudden, or should I be concerned more than I am? "Attend, ye skilled to coin the precious tale, Creating proof, where innuendos fail!" ~ R. B. Sheridan, Esq. See if this could be crohns disease. Go to alt.support crohns/colitis newsgroup. They may know. And if it is, please write to me at Advocate147@aol.com for the very unusual cause of this weird illness. Gail Michael > Hi folks. Hope this forum is better than some others! > I have a strange set of symptoms - don't know if they are related or just [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > Am I just aging poorly all of a sudden, or should I be concerned more than I > am? > See if this could be crohns disease. Go to alt.support crohns/colitis > newsgroup. They may know. And if it is, please write to me at > Advocate147@aol.com for the very unusual cause of this weird illness. > Gail Michael I would suggest Gail that you seek mental health help. Some person thinking about another person does not cause that person to develop Crohn's. Crohn's Disease? Doesn't seem likely. The only symptom that would 'qualify' is night sweats. My rectal area is doing just fine! Thanks though... >> See if this could be crohns disease. Go to alt.support crohns/colitis >> newsgroup. They may know. And if it is, please write to me at [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >I would suggest Gail that you seek mental health help. Some person thinking >about another person does not cause that person to develop Crohn's. Crohns is not an illness of the rectum or digestive system only. It can encomapass ANY part of the body, head to toe and mind also. Gail > Crohn's Disease? Doesn't seem likely. The only symptom that would 'qualify' > is night sweats. My rectal area is doing just fine! Thanks though... [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Message posted via MedKB.com > http://www.medkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/med/200601/1 Ribert, How the he-- do you know? The person thinking of the other HAS TO BE ON A STIMULANT for the other one to get crohns. How do you know what power stimulants have. That is the real question that must be answered, if it ever can. Only the results are readily seen. Crohns does not have a medical cause, but it requies medical treatment. Just like if a person falls and breaks a leg, the doctor doesn't know how the person broke his leg, but the doctor and patient know it needs treatment. One of the mysteries of life. Gail > > See if this could be crohns disease. Go to alt.support crohns/colitis > > newsgroup. They may know. And if it is, please write to me at [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I would suggest Gail that you seek mental health help. Some person thinking > about another person does not cause that person to develop Crohn's. > Ribert, > > How the he-- do you know? The person thinking of the other HAS TO BE ON A > STIMULANT for the other one to get crohns. How do you know what power > stimulants have. I know thoughts are not transmitted into disease in others no matter if they are on stimulants or not. Some people think thoughts can take shape and form into physical objects. It's called mental illness. Someone on stimulants can not give another Crohn's, so get a clue as to what's going on in your brain and take care of yourself before someone takes care of you. Robert, Sorry to say, it is the stimulant that has the power to transmit illness by mind/body connection. Not scientific, not logical, cannot be explained how, but unfortunately for too many people, it results in depression, fatigue and physical harm, needing potent drugs, surgery and sometimess death. I see it all the time, it is subtle, mysterious, but very real. It takes astuteness to observe and know this strange, almost unbelievable synonymon. It would cause a maelstrom if ever verified. What would the psychiatrists do without anti-depressants. What would the pharmceutical cos. do without their big seller, anti-depressants. It will not be long, everyone will need an anti-depressant at the going rate. Would love to be wrong, but that can never be. Actually you do not know that thoughts are not transmitted into disease, whether on stimulants or not. You have the logical approach, but it just does not apply. Best research is with young children, if they have Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Usually their parent is on a stmulant, and if they cease, the child will be normal. Too big a subject, and I will not convince you nor will I try. Everyone is not vulnerable, which makes it all the harder to detect and prove. It is something that requires a sixth sense, almost. And did I tell you the two or more persons do not have to be in the same room for the one to be ill, they can be miles and miles apart, only the mind connection is at work. Gail > > Ribert, > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Crohn's, so get a clue as to what's going on in your brain and take care of > yourself before someone takes care of you. i will advise u to get urself checked properly from a consulting physician. it may come out to be diabetes, hypothyroidism, something else, or nothing. Dr. Arun Gupta >i will advise u to get urself checked properly from a consulting >physician. it may come out to be diabetes, hypothyroidism, something >else, or nothing. > >Dr. Arun Gupta Thanks. I did see a physician Friday afternoon. Amusing, almost... The lump in the thigh? Fat deposit. So fat can hurt now? Hmm... The pain in the hip? He poked the hip - VERY hard - and when I said "ouch!" (I swear, there's a bruise there from the poking!) the hip pain became bursitis. Sweating? Must be menopause. Has to be, I'm over 35. Itching? Could be an allergy. Dry skin. (Which sounds good, but I know the difference.) And none of the symptoms are related; just coincidence. As an afterthought almost, blood was taken for testing, and the casual mention that the lump might actually be a "lymphoma" was suggested, but nothing to worry about. Diabetes? I'm Hypoglycemic. Opposite end. I have been tested for diabetes just in case - I produce enough insulin for an entire family, I swear... > >i will advise u to get urself checked properly from a consulting > >physician. it may come out to be diabetes, hypothyroidism, something [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks. I did see a physician Friday afternoon. Amusing, almost... The > lump in the thigh? Fat deposit. So fat can hurt now? I was thinking of varicose veins. Hmm... The pain in > the hip? He poked the hip - VERY hard - and when I said "ouch!" (I swear, > there's a bruise there from the poking!) the hip pain became bursitis. > Sweating? Must be menopause. That would have been my guess as you mentioned no fever or hypertension associated with sweating episodes (catecholamine). Sweating with hypoglycemia (insulinoma). Has to be, I'm over 35. Itching? Could be an > allergy. Dry skin. Dry skin becomes worse in the winter. Typical although an allergy from changing soap in laundry can cause this. I use less soap in the winter. (Which sounds good, but I know the difference.) And > none of the symptoms are related; just coincidence. Nobody thought they would be although hypothyroidism with dry skin loss of hair and actually cold intolerance although you have heat intolerance which would be the opposite, hyperthyroidism. > As an afterthought almost, blood was taken for testing, and the casual > mention that the lump might actually be a "lymphoma" was suggested, but > nothing to worry about. Diabetes? I'm Hypoglycemic. There is reactive functional hypoglycemia that is part of the pre-diabetes. Fasting hypoglycemia is not reactive but primary. Coupled with hypothyroidism a pituitary origin may be possible but again no hypoglycemia is documented nor is hypothyroidism. Opposite end. I have > been tested for diabetes just in case - Fasting glucose, 2 hr PP glucose? I produce enough insulin for an > entire family, I swear... Apart from a reactive hypoglycemia, which can be picked up with a 5 hour glucose tolerance test, is the possibility of an insulin secreting islet cell tumor. "I have noticed that if I eat a lot of sugar before going to sleep this is abated somewhat, but not always" If you skip a meal or exercise and experience symptoms and I don't mean just hunger but double vision, confusion or abnormal behavior, palpitation. Some people with chronic hypoglycemia adjust by eating and so insulinomas are often present for some time before they are discovered. Assuming you have enough insulin for an entire family would be consistent with that otherwise I would suspect a metabolic syndrome ie pre-diabetes.
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