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My partner has turned yellow and I am scared

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bloodywhitecat · 29/06/2020 13:53

Over the last couple of weeks his skin and eye whites have turned yellow, he also has dark urine which has not improved despite upping his fluid intake by at least an extra 2 litres a day, he is more tired than usual too. I don't want to scare myself witless and Google. He has called the GP and is having blood tests tonight.

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Juiceey · 11/07/2020 14:48

You must be so frightened OP. Sending love.

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bloodywhitecat · 11/07/2020 15:14

@GimmeAy

I'd say that the consultant saw the blood results and is thinking WTF? Why has this been left - why wasn't he referred on Day 1.
I hope we both have a bit of something and nothing but it really shouldn't be this hard to get seen.

@Elsiebear90 I hope we have a similar outcome. I am hanging on to eh thought that he had upper abdominal pain after eating a few weeks before all this started and it is something simple.

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perfumeistooexpensive · 11/07/2020 15:25

My jaundice was a blocked bile duct, but I felt as if I were dying. Got treatment the same day. Fingers crossed for a good outcome like mine.

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BoreOfWhabylon · 11/07/2020 15:31

I hope you will soon have some answers bloodywhitecat Flowers

ThickFast · 11/07/2020 15:54

Sounds really stressful trying to get seen. Hope you’re ok.

GimmeAy · 11/07/2020 18:28

It's weird that he has no pain. Anywhere.

2 funny stories about jaundice. Well not really haha funny but anyway.......

I went to see my counsellor one week and she said - are you jaundiced? You look a bit yellow? I had fake tan on. She was peering into my eyes before she believed me.

My baby is mixed race (black and white) and nobody knew. So a nurse came around to take my dd off for jaundice testing when she was about a day old as she was 'yellow'. As a new mum it hadn't occurred to me that her colouring might be due to her father so of course I was convinced she had jaundice too lol. Of course she didn't have jaundice and was just tanned for a white baby. I remember the nurse looking at me crooked when she brought my baby back to me.

steppemum · 11/07/2020 18:41

My baby is mixed race (black and white) and nobody knew. So a nurse came around to take my dd off for jaundice testing when she was about a day old as she was 'yellow'. As a new mum it hadn't occurred to me that her colouring might be due to her father so of course I was convinced she had jaundice too lol. Of course she didn't have jaundice and was just tanned for a white baby. I remember the nurse looking at me crooked when she brought my baby back to me.

this made me smile because I had a similar thing in reverse. When ds was a baby we lived in Central Asia. Most of the population were dark skinned, with some Russians, some of whom were very blonde. But ds was a red head, and so he had that very white pale redhead skin. I was always being told by nurses etc (eg when he had his vaccinations) that he was ill because he was so pale, and they kept trying to get me to give him iron injections. When I insisted he just had white skin, they said they were quite used to blonde pale skinned kids and he was pale.
He was fine. Strapping great healthy lump of a baby. At some point I let them do a finger prick test and much to their surprise, he wasn't anaemic!

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bloodywhitecat · 11/07/2020 18:53

Grin. I can imagine the nurse's confusion! We had a young junior doctor who was very concerned that one of the newborns on our neonatal ward had a 'bruise' at the base of her spine. The bruise was a Mongolian blue spot.

He did have pain, usually after eating a short time before the yellowness started but after his urine turned dark and his stools became pale. The GP did palpate his abdomen and said everything felt normal which has to be good?

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NamechangeOnceMore · 11/07/2020 19:40

It wouldn't be weird if he had no pain anywhere, @GimmeAy. It's pathognomic of one of the differential diagnoses. (I know OP has now clarified he had some pain previously!)

OP, I really hope he is investigated speedily and the cause is easily identified and treated. Thinking of you. Flowers

GimmeAy · 11/07/2020 21:04

@bloodywhitecat I was the only one who knew dd was half black, so when I saw the Mongolian blue spot I wasn't concerned. My mother would have had her whipped off for a scan or something. I finally told them (family). Never told the staff in the hospital though so they were fascinated by this somewhat tanned baby with a mother as white as a ghost. I never did enlighten them haha.
I always find it amusing though when a baby is supposed to be mixed race on television programmes they're always black babies, but dd wasn't - she was just well jaundiced looking or tanned! She looked white though. It was actually only when her hair started to grow that my mother believed me!

GimmeAy · 11/07/2020 21:10

He did have pain, usually after eating a short time before the yellowness started but after his urine turned dark and his stools became pale. The GP did palpate his abdomen and said everything felt normal which has to be good?

I don't know, only that I've been investigated for a few things and have had a few different diagnoses during my time and during a physical exam by a doc, you would yelp in pain when they pressed on certain parts of you (depending on what was wrong with me).

Pancreatitis was one of the most painful things I've ever had - I had my hands/arms like a guard around my tummy so they couldn't examine me - the pain was fucking worse than labour pains - easily.

I have no idea what other things it could be as usually things present with pain - the one thing which I'm sure you're aware of that can be silent is cancer.

I'd just say nothing until you hear more as the fella says. I pray to God it's just gallstones or something.

GimmeAy · 11/07/2020 21:20

steppemum You were probably like me - a mixture of concerned and also knowing that nothing was wrong. It was the way the nurse did it to me that meant I wasn't going to enlighten her - she came in and goes 'THAT BABY HAS JAUNDICE'. then just whipped her off. I didn't feel the need to tell her why the baby was tanned when she brought her back to me. I know everyone will say 'oh wasn't she a good nurse', but at the time I felt really annoyed.

Sorry OP to go off topic, but I hope it's a welcome distraction.

GimmeAy · 11/07/2020 21:22

If it's any consolation, the one thing I had which caused me pain, but didn't cause me pain when they palpated as you call it was cholecystitis (infection in gallbladder). So I'm hoping it's something simple related to gallbladder.

Nat6999 · 11/07/2020 21:46

If it is a blocked bile duct they will want to do an ERCP which is a camera down his throat, through his stomach to his bile duct to remove the blockage, he will most likely have gall stones if he has a blockage & will need his gall bladder removing afterwards.

steppemum · 12/07/2020 13:19

I always find it amusing though when a baby is supposed to be mixed race on television programmes they're always black babies

my neices are mixed race, and one of them as a baby was white as a sheet with jet black straight hair. My SIL spent a lot of time exlaining that no, he husband wasn't Chinese. I find it fascinatign how genetics works and combines, I have 3 kids with totally different skin colour and hair, but all 3 same parents.

Sorry Op, off topic.

GimmeAy · 12/07/2020 14:18

Ye, I guess it's interesting with same parents and different colouring comes out. Like that though, my brother has two blondes and one red head. Often you'll see families with very similar colouring though. Yes, I'm guessing that the nurse who thought dd had jaundice had a suspicion about her parentage when the test was negative lol. I left her guessing.

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bloodywhitecat · 13/07/2020 13:16

Scan on Wednesday morning

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GimmeAy · 13/07/2020 13:19

Great news! You'll finally get some answers.
How is DH?

Hangingover · 13/07/2020 13:23

Thinking of you and DH OP x

finished31 · 13/07/2020 13:30

Grr eat news....not long and at least he has a consultant to review the results x

notapizzaeater · 13/07/2020 13:31

Great, hopefully you will get some answers

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bloodywhitecat · 13/07/2020 13:41

@GimmeAy

Great news! You'll finally get some answers. How is DH?
Still his usual self, claims not to feel unwell, slightly more grumpy than usual, tires quickly, eating well but has a unquenchable thirst and itchy, oh so itchy.
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justasking111 · 13/07/2020 13:43

Oh I hope you know soon, you have been very patient.

GimmeAy · 13/07/2020 14:56

The itch is related to the liver as far as I know. (I'm under a hepatologist). Sometimes antihistamines work, but given that he has jaundice I wouldn't be putting any more chemicals in there.

I've my phone consultation with the colorectal surgeon tomorrow am.

aibutohavethisusername · 13/07/2020 15:14

Glad he is getting a scab soon.