This might be long, so please bear with me. A friend recommend I ask on here as I have no idea where else to turn.
I live alone with my two year old and we’re both having medical issues that are sort of related but I can’t figure out the connection.
My son has issues at night. He wakes every 1-2 hours, open mouth breathes, snores, has nosebleeds, is often very dry and gets a lot of dry snot which makes him uncomfortable. He has undergone medical testing. I was originally told his adenoids are enlarged but the last specialist disagreed. His tonsils are fine, he has had a sleep study and only one time where he ‘stopped’ breathing, so they’ve said no further investigation. I’m at a lack of what to do here.
I am incredibly dry. My body, hair, nose, mouth and eyes are dry. I have nose bleeds too. I’m very dehydrated despite drinking loads and loads of water. I even take rehydration salts to counterbalance that. I take multivitamins and have a good balanced diet. I’m exhausted all the time and My mental health is suffering very badly, probably due to lack of sleep with my son but could be hormonal, this coupled with the fact I haven’t had a period since before my son was born made my doctor suggest it’s hormonal. I’ve had lots of blood tests but nothing has shown up. They haven’t tested my oestrogen as they said it fluctuates too much to test. I’ve tried to do lots of natural things to balance my hormones but no changes yet. Nothing more being done at current, not sure what else to do here either.
Our house isn’t particularly dry; I bought a humidifier and it often says the house is in the 60-70% range for humidity. We have this contraption in the ceiling that sucks out all the damp, so I don’t think we have a damp issue or a dry issue, humidity seems to be just right. I don’t have the heating on at night and rarely during the day. I open windows in the house regularly and don’t have washing drying inside. Haven’t noticed mould anywhere.
We both often have eye issues, where they get gunky. Mine are red a lot and very scratchy at night. I’ve seen a. Dentist who said he couldn’t see what the issue is and my sons oral health is great and an optometrist who said the same.
I don’t think it’s the house as we lived abroad for 8 months and the issues continued. We’ve stayed at relatives and the issues continue. So is this just purely coincidental problems we’re both suffering similar symptoms with two very different causes? Or is there something I haven’t considered? We have a dog, could we both be suddenly allergic? I’m asking here because I seem to have exhausted all the medical support and I have no idea what else to do. It’s not nice to be living like this but I’m totally stuck?
Thank you.