Anyone else got a weird mish mash of mild health issues going on? Bear with me, this is a bit long, i’m trying to get my thoughts in order. I’ve always had mild tummy problems, verring from diarrhoea to constipation with tons of wind and bloating. Since last summer i’ve also had very itchy skin, mainly scalp hands and feet, with the odd small blister erupting after the onset of the itchiness. I’ve also had repeated mouth ulcers and mouth soreness. Blood tests in october showed slightly low folic acid, low-ish ferritin (16) and mild anaemia. I supplemented with folic acid for 4 months as per GP advice and then for 1month with ferroglobin, jointace plus iron/vit d/b12/magnesium & zinc. Subsequent blood tests showed folic acid back to normal and ferritin up to 60. Coeliac, thyroid & crohns blood tests negative but stomach problems and mouth, skin issues persisted albeit mouth ulcers became less frequent. I also felt much more energetic, especially after following a gluten & dairy free diet for 2 weeks as an experiment to see if it helped my tummy issues (it did). GP referred me to a gastroenterologist so i stopped restricting diet and stopped supplementing in advance of that to ensure any tests were an accurate picture (since stopping this 6 weeks ago i’ve been feeling steadily worse again). She repeated blood tests and today i had endoscopy amd colonoscopy. Everything looked normal and she’s sent off biopsies for a coeliac screen as a rpecaution, despite blood screen being negative. But she definitely seemed to think all would be normal. However she did say that blood tests showed my ferritin was at 15 and she asked me if i have heavy periods (i don’t really, just normal). I know i need to wait for results but it seems really unlikely i have coeliac disease. i’m just a bit baffled as to what could cause my ferritin to drop from 60 to 15 in a matter of weeks
, amd what could be causing this horrible combination of symptoms. I havent received a run down of full blood test results yet. Anyone else experienced anything like this? I am veering from feeling convinced that there is something wrong to thinking ti’s all in my head.
Sorry for typos, on ipad and too knackered to correct everything. Thanks if you managed to get to the end!