We had a beautiful baby girl in November last year, it was a traumatic birth and I dont think I ever recovered properly. That christmas we were all down with a bad chest infection, and I dont think I got over that as I ended up with pneumonia (in March) and spent a week in hospital.
From May I started having headaches, a feeling that my sugar level was low (dizzy feeling), fatigue. My personality was changing aswell, I was snapping at people and everybody seemed to be getting on my nerves. My periods were also very heavy and painful. I was having stomach pain and difficulty going to the toilet. Mid July I was diagnosed with IBS and Duodonal ulcer.
My symptoms havent improved, infact they have got worse. The fatigue has got worse and I have been getting pain in my joints. Started off with a pain in my knuckle on a finger that only stayed for a few days, I had a painful ankle like I had sprained it but I dont remember hurting it. I wake nearly every morning with a flu/cold feeling, though I get the odd sore throat pain during the day. I had a sore elbow 2 days ago that stayed the whole day, now I have a sore back (this never seems to really go) and sore shoulders.
My blood pressure has also been sitting at 124/92 for 2 months, my doctor has said that we should keep an eye on it. When I said about my other symptoms before, she just seems to have dismissed it. I said about the fatigue and she said I am probably overdoing things. The strange thing is that I get depressing feelings that come and go. I am in a good part of my life and dont have depressing thought, but I have patches were I feel like the world is on my shoulders.
The headaches are horrible, painkillers do not seem to take the pain away. I get them in bouts too, they come for about 2-3 days and then maybe nothing for a week or so.
I would say it has affected my life, I get bouts of insomnia and sometimes wake feeling like I havent slept at all. I am overweight and I hate going to my doctor as they seem to use that against me. I do walk and struggle to lose weight (always have done), however lately I have to really push myself to go out walking because of the fatigue. Thing is there is days I feel great and could do my daily routines ok.
Does this sound like usual symptoms of IBS and Duodonal ulcer, or is it a trip back to the doctor?
Hi Mum. That's a lot of numbers in your name. :p
First off, congratulations on your baby girl. You had her in November, so this is almost a year now that you're having symptoms. As for the headaches, moodiness and fatigues, these could very well be hormone related as your body is trying to get back into balance.
The hypoglycemia, duodenal issues and IBS could also be hormonally triggerred or stress triggered. You said that you had a bad chest infection and pneumonia, this says that your immune system was down too, which makes sense.
As for the pain, this could be due to a number of different things. From my point of view, in order to get a good overall treatment, I would suggest going to a naturopath who is trained in acupuncture and homeopathy.
You need to find out the root of all these issues and to heal from them.
Hi Mum2Two - Welcome to HP! 🙂 You are likely to get lots of ideas here! Sounds like you have had a rough time over the past few months - BIG hugs :hug:.
I assume you were put on antibiotics for the pneumonia and maybe even the duodenal ulcer - did you take probiotics afterwards (not the sweetened drinks but multibillion, quality probitic capsules) to replace the beneficial bacteria that were wiped out by the antibiotics? I guess not - this in fact answers all your symptoms - as I started reading I guessed what might be involved - and they came up in the next few sentences 🙁 - poor you!
My main advice is to get to a [url]registered Nutritional Therapist [/url]asap. There is a lot to sort out and the sooner the better, before anything else goes wrong! This is what we are trained to do! Do get hold of Lipski's [url]Digestive Wellness[/url] or Holford's [url]The optimum Nutrition Bible[/url] if you want to find out what it is all about - they were a revelation as far as I was concerned.
You have a lot to cope with with 2 little ones and if you are so under par then it won't benefit anyone, including yourself. You need the nutritional building blocks to help your body recover (food, supplements and lifestyle) and I would add some form of energy help too - whether this is acupuncture or EFT or even both. Your adrenal stress needs dealing with too before you can start to recover (Nutritional Therapist).
IBS, by the way, is not a diagnosis but an umbrella term which covers 'there is something wrong with the bowel but we don't know what it is'. Unfortunately the medical profession deals with symptoms rather than the causes - you need to ask 'Why?' at the end of every explanation until you can supply the reason yourself - it often comes down to some form of stress. This is where the energy healing can help enormously.
Hope you get sorted soon! - but it may take a while, I'm afraid. You'll need as much help and support as possible from family and friends until you are better.
Love and Light
Hi, You have a lot of different symptoms and if you go down the conventional medical route, they'll likely look at each symptom in isolation and treat each one seperately.
If you would like to be treated more holistically and for the original root cause of the problem to be taken into account (and judging from the first sentence in your post, you may well do), perhaps you should consider some alternative/complementary treatment). I'd recommend homeopathy (but then I would.....) . HTH and you feel better soon. Hom.