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Walking on egg shells

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Sander · 07/05/2009 11:04

About 4 years ago, a year after birth of our first child, my wife noticed that one of her eye (balls) was protruding slightly, (kind of Marty Feldmanish) She has a whole load of tests to check for anything behind (tumour)and a range of blood tests. Result nothing. she still has the eye thing but since then has developed an absolutely furious temper. Her moods swing dramatically. A small slight will set her of..its like watching a volcano brew and then erupt..she ends in tears. Sometimes a few hours later its as if it didn't happen. I know blokes can be insensitive pigs and all that but honest to god i am trying so hard and I know this is just not right. Myself and our DS (4) spent our time apologising and trying to calm the anger. Its tearing us apart and I just don't know what to do. She's had follow up blood tests for thyroid I think but nothing seems to result in the sense of a clear diagnosis of anything amiss or a treatment. Does anyone know what this could be? I found something called Pagetts disease on the net but then none of the doctors have come back with this. She's stopped bothering with the the tests.

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ConnorTraceptive · 07/05/2009 11:26

Have they checked for Graves disease (google it and see if it fits)??

Sander · 07/05/2009 11:54

Thanks for the reply..I stupidly wrote pagets before(another sperate worry!) what I meant was Graves..i did know about that. Problem is many of the symptoms don't fit. The eye does, but weight loss is not. I just thought that the specialist she saw would have considered that as such an obvious thing to look into. He didn't come back with a diagnosis of that. didn't come back with any diagnosis.

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YouKnowNothingoftheCrunch · 07/05/2009 11:59

Did they check that she didn't have a minor stroke? Just my first thought with the dramatic mood changes.

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