What are my options now?

[perfectpeach]

Hi all

I posted a while back and was advised to get my thyroid checked to find out if that was behind my crippling exhaustion.

I have since developed more symptoms
I look six months pregnant at times I am so bloated
my weight has soared and I am nearly 2 dress sizes bigger than I was at the beginning of autumn
disturbed sleep every night
late periods then very heavy
I have gone completely off meat
still exhausted

The Dr thought it sounded like I was pregnant, though no chance of that. He sent me for full bloods and everything came back clear apart from vitamin D deficiency for which they are writing me a prescription for Vit D and I have to be rechecked in 6 weeks

Are all those symptoms really down to a lack of vitamin D?

What do I do now? Just take the Vit D and take it from there? Or are there other tests I can push for?

I am being driven insane by tiredness and not a single good nights sleep in nearly a year

Any help will be very gratefully received, thank you

[RubySparks]

Hi Peach did you get tested for coeliac disease? I was very very tired before diagnosis and it came with low vit D too.

[NCIS]

Apart from the meat thing I had those symptoms, high dose Vit D had got rid of them and I was losing weight but I stupidly stopped taking them and some of the symptoms have returned, really must get into the habit of taking them regularly.

[bilbodog]

don't want to cause alarm but have you been checked for ovarian cancer? I know from a couple of friends that it is easily overlooked but in both cases they thought they had put on weight. I believe a blood test can be done in the first instance to show up if anything untoward is going on.

[chocnomorechoc]

I second a gyn referral & scan of your ovaries/womb.

[perfectpeach]

no, a test for coeliac disease wasn't mentioned. Not been checked for ovarian cancer. I did see the Dr a few weeks ago about lumps in my breast but wouldn't refer me due to my age, too young for breast cancer to be likely apparently. I am 35

[chocnomorechoc]

that is nonsense. any lump should be checked out. I would go back to demand a referral. you should really be seen within 2 weeks of referral. Can you see another GP? otherwise even change surgery.

[perfectpeach]

You're right, I felt it was ridiculous at the time not to be referred but didn't have the energy to do anything about it. I still have the lump but the dr said a cancerous lump would be rough, the lump I have is smooth. But with all these extra symptoms now I really need to get myself sorted out and find out what is wrong with me

[chocnomorechoc]

chances are it is nothing but you really need a scan.... you cannot rule out BC that way.

[RockinD]

"Everything came back clear". Never let any medic tell you that!

Go back and ask for a print out of your test results with the reference range. Look for anything within range but at one end or the other.

By example I once had this ferritin result 16(15-150) which the NHS told me was fine. Needless to say it is not.

Depending which results are out of kilter, either find a forum or list them on here, but get that breast lump checked out. I think that comes first.

[paxtecum]

Candidiasis can cause exhaustion and massive bloating.
It is too much yeast in the guts.

I hope you get answers soon.

[CPtart]

My first thought was ovarian cancer too ( not to alarm you). Ca125 is the blood test for this. Are your smears up to date??

[perfectpeach]

I am due my next smear tomorrow, so I will soon know if anything is amiss

[perfectpeach]

I am going to get in to see a different Dr this week. I have taken the first megadose of vit d but feel no better. Tired, no energy. Now to add to my.list of symptoms, I am starving but have no desire to eat anything, I just force it down. Just feeling so bleurgh