Hello All,
I am writing this as an update to my story...finally some news that actually has helped me to get better!!! I went to a new Doctor who was absolutely wonderful, attentive and intelligent. He ordered the right tests based on what I was telling him and low and behold a real honest to goodness diagnoisis was made!!! I do not have Cushings all my test were negetive which I was happy about, but I did have a BIG problem that turned out to be related to having my thyroid remove last year, and that was my parathyroid glands had been moved to my neck area during my surgery and that most likely only one out of the four was functioning based on my non existant vitamin D levels and scant calcium levels. So a determination of Hypoparathyroidism was made with hypocalcenemia. Massive oral doses of calcium and vitamin D and fish oil was the prescribed fix it...and it is working I am feeling 100 % better already. My belly bloat is going down rapidly, the low ache in my back is gone. I no longer sound like I am rolling over on a bag of potato chips when I move and I am able to walk 2 miles a day and work my 12 hour shifts at the hospital and feel like a human being when I arrive home at the end of a shift. It is wonderful and I am looking forward to my future now nad no longer wishing I would lay down and just die...even my mental alertness is vastly improved. It amazes me how much our bodys will try to hold us together when something is wrong. I know now just how sick I was and how close to death I could come and not really know it...but all is well now and hopefully my parathyroids will kick back in with some of the pressure taken off by supplementing the D and calcium..if not I'll be stuck on supplements but hey its better then feeling like a walking dead person right...Thanks so much for your posts, I appreciate the uplifting comments and hope my post will help someone in the future.
regards
Lisa
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Hello All,
August 5, 2008 - 6:47amI am writing this as an update to my story...finally some news that actually has helped me to get better!!! I went to a new Doctor who was absolutely wonderful, attentive and intelligent. He ordered the right tests based on what I was telling him and low and behold a real honest to goodness diagnoisis was made!!! I do not have Cushings all my test were negetive which I was happy about, but I did have a BIG problem that turned out to be related to having my thyroid remove last year, and that was my parathyroid glands had been moved to my neck area during my surgery and that most likely only one out of the four was functioning based on my non existant vitamin D levels and scant calcium levels. So a determination of Hypoparathyroidism was made with hypocalcenemia. Massive oral doses of calcium and vitamin D and fish oil was the prescribed fix it...and it is working I am feeling 100 % better already. My belly bloat is going down rapidly, the low ache in my back is gone. I no longer sound like I am rolling over on a bag of potato chips when I move and I am able to walk 2 miles a day and work my 12 hour shifts at the hospital and feel like a human being when I arrive home at the end of a shift. It is wonderful and I am looking forward to my future now nad no longer wishing I would lay down and just die...even my mental alertness is vastly improved. It amazes me how much our bodys will try to hold us together when something is wrong. I know now just how sick I was and how close to death I could come and not really know it...but all is well now and hopefully my parathyroids will kick back in with some of the pressure taken off by supplementing the D and calcium..if not I'll be stuck on supplements but hey its better then feeling like a walking dead person right...Thanks so much for your posts, I appreciate the uplifting comments and hope my post will help someone in the future.
regards
Lisa
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