Hello. I apologize in advance if this
rambles. I am a 29 year old female who has
been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism with a
hot singular nodule(this is the only
confirmed diagnosis I have been able to
get from 5 different doctors, and they
said I didn't need a FNA). I have been
very sick for the last 13 years of my
life.
It started out with just general fatigue
and muscle soreness and weakness. Now, for
the last few years, there is a bulging
pain I get from time to time directly
below my ribcage on my left side
(sometimes, it even hurts to touch). It
gets worse if I eat anything greasy (like
bacon) and I actually get nauseated and
sometimes need to vomit to relieve the
nausea. Once, I vomited 3 hours after
eating, and all the food was still in my
stomach. I bounce between constipated and
loose(non-watery) stools. When I have a
bowel movement, the pain will sometimes
lessen. I also get really bad heartburn.
Sometimes so bad, my throat feels like
it's on fire. Symptoms get worse when I am
stressed or upset (usually my heart will
start racing, and my pulse and blood
pressure will sky rocket.) I had a barium
enema, and the radiologist said it was
"basically normal", and they checked for
blood in my stool and didn't find any. One
of my grandmothers had polyps and died of
stomach cancer, and my other grandmother
died from pancreatic and lung cancer, so I
am a little concerned.
I am just so tired all the time, and it
makes the worrying worse, which makes the
symptoms worse. Strangely, I also have a
few things that are asymptomatc for
hyperthyroid: I am sensitive to cold and
desensitized to heat, I gain weight like
crazy, and I tend to be weak and tired
most of the time (I do have random bouts
of energy). The muscle soreness is getting
worse (my left shoulder is numb almost all
the time and my neck is getting very
cranky). The soles of my feet are bright
red and my toes are often cold. There is
also a large strawberry colored rash on my
right foot that develops fluid filled
blisters that my doctors keep saying is
eczema but doesn't respond to
hyrdrocortisone at all.
A few of my other (less severe, but still
annoying) symptoms are:
I am prone to acne, even at my age, which
neither OTC nor prescription meds seem to
be able to help.
I am constantly battling with
iron-deficiency anemia.
In the last month, I have begun smelling
burning rubber and smoke that no one else
can and tasting ammonia.
I have severe allergies which lead to
chronic sinusitis at least twice a year,
if not more. Traditional allergy meds
don't always help. (Claritin seemed to
help for about a week and then stopped
helping.)
I have an ovarian cyst.
I have trouble falling asleep, and when I
do fall asleep, I seem to spend most of
the night having lucid dreams and then
have trouble waking in the morning (even
if I let myself naturally wake up, I still
feel lethargic.)
My saliva glands don't seem to shut off,
even if my mouth is completely moist. When
I yawn, if I lift my tongue, saliva
literally shoots out of the gland under my
tongue.
I am rheumatoid positive and have high
titer speckled ANA, but have not been
diagnosed with anything. I should also
point out that I took a lot of antibiotics
as a child for genetic vesicoureteral
reflux. If you have any insight, I would
be ever so grateful!
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map1101
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 1
Nickiej01 Posted: 10-25-07 19:03pm
Nic - do you have any other mouth or
throat symptoms?
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nickiej01
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Victorville, CA
Thank You For Replying. Posted: 10-26-07 11:47am
other mouth symptoms include (lately) my
teeth seem to be disintegrating. It's
getting to the point where it hurts to
brush and I occassionally have to pick a
piece of tooth out of my food while I am
eating. I get fluid filled sores in my
mouth from time to time (they are kinda
like blisters. I get them mostly on the
inside of my cheek and under the tongues.
The ones under my tongue tend to hurt.
Once or twice a month I get the feeling of
something sticking in the back of my mouth
on one side and I have to scrape it out of
whatever is back there (just below the
uvula). It looks like a hard piece of
cottage cheese and generally smells like
something died. Scraping it out relieves
the feeling of something stuck, but
generally causes bleeding. Sometimes I can
just work it out by wiggling the back of
my throat.
As far as my throat goes, lately it feels
like it's constricted, but that could just
be my nodule getting bigger and
constricting the airway. (note, I stated
hot nodule, but I recently got my medical
records, and it's actually cold.) Other
then the constant burny sore feeling, my
throat tends to be okay.
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