Bogdar
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Good evening, I have a long story to share.
Let's start somewhere: 2 months ago I had a violent gastroenteritis - the worst I ever had - that lasted 10 days. Liquid diarrhea, intense abdominal cramping and loss of appetite.
It happened the day after I drank that suspicious raw milk. I'm used to drink raw milk, but the brand I usually buy was out of stock, so I tried a new one. It tasted weird, not good but not disgusting either, maybe a little bit spoiled but it didn't stop me for 2 reasons:
-I needed liquid food bc of a sudden jaw pain, and it was all I had, markets closed
-I was into raw animal stuff for 4 months, meat, liver, eggs, butter, milk all raw and I was feeling so good, mentally as physically. Moreover, when my usual raw milk brand spoil it just ferments and I can still consume it 2 weeks after its peremption date - it just becomes buttermilk.
What a mistake.
After those 10 days of suffering, I had lots of muscle twitchings, muscle cramping, and some tiredness all day, not a huge deal I needed to recover and to rehydrate myself.
However about a week in the recovery phase, it all started. I will try to do my best to describe all the symptoms I experienced, they all came pretty much at the same time.
RN i'm lucid but it happen very rarely that's why I calm down, do some researches and seek help, and I know those dark moments can come back easily and will eventually end up very bad. It really feels like I'm POSSESSED, sometimes I'm not myself and I oscillate between states few times in a day.
I think it is related and worth noting too, sometimes I experience some "autistic" symptoms as I like to call them. I become very paranoid with everyone, I can't talk to anybody without blushing, I feel like ***t, try to talk to people but can't as if I wasn't connected with myself. Connection lost. It is so disturbing.
So, experts related now:
There's a lot to say. I did some doctors which couldn't figure out what it was, and I did some bloodtest for thyroid - hepatitis - mononucleosis - sodium/potassium - lymphocytes - hematocrit / platelets - liver function - kidney function - some inflammation markers and other stuff.
Well, the weird thing is that everything above is in range, EXCEPT the platelets. Normal range is like 150-400 and I hit 1000. However, they couldn't figure out why 'cause I have no markers of inflammation, the abdominal echography I made was OK everywhere.
It means it is not infectious, etc etc.
note: however I was positive for Hepatitis A without precision (just written "positive") but since I had a vaccine against it 8 months ago, my doctor said it was OK. For mononucleosis, I already had it in the past but markers were at least suspicious, and at most very very high. He said it was also normal. I don't know if I have to doubt his interpretation but I keep that in mind.
He oriented me to some hemato-experts, and a psychiatrist. He said my digestive problems was psy-related, but IMO it is totally the opposite. Everything was doing right until digestive problems came in the equation.
He also diagnosed me with irritable bowel, thus the title. It could be indeed IBS.
Using Ray Peat articles, I made a connection - if I'm correct he told that platelets can release serotonin, I don't know why, I don't know how, but I have high platelets for no reasons and what seems to be a very high serotonin situation. I saw haidut say that IBS could be caused only by high serotonin, if I'm correct.
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I am used to have weird-and-unsolvable-by-mainstream-medecin illness, and my intuition is telling me it is a new one and I'm not done with seeing all these experts yet before they aim good.
Well, I think this forum is an appropriate place to tell my story, because after reading some haidut's posts (as always, and thank you for everything you taught to me btw !), I can pretty much say that serotonin is highly related, and antagonists could help me.
I know everything is linked somehow and I have to connect the pieces of the puzzle, that's why I'm asking your help and your opinion, and I would be pleased if you @haidut could give your opinion as it is always enlightening.
I'm seeing a psychiatrist soon so if you have an idea of what chemical I could try to help with my unstability, it would be a pleasure. Cyproheptadine ?
Also, I'm a 20yo boy, with no particular digestive issues until now (well it always fluctuated between good and bad but never that bad).
I feel like there's a piece of the puzzle I'm not seeing because it took very high proportion for no "visible" reasons. Your help is greatly appreciated ! I'd love to be back to life.
Let's start somewhere: 2 months ago I had a violent gastroenteritis - the worst I ever had - that lasted 10 days. Liquid diarrhea, intense abdominal cramping and loss of appetite.
It happened the day after I drank that suspicious raw milk. I'm used to drink raw milk, but the brand I usually buy was out of stock, so I tried a new one. It tasted weird, not good but not disgusting either, maybe a little bit spoiled but it didn't stop me for 2 reasons:
-I needed liquid food bc of a sudden jaw pain, and it was all I had, markets closed
-I was into raw animal stuff for 4 months, meat, liver, eggs, butter, milk all raw and I was feeling so good, mentally as physically. Moreover, when my usual raw milk brand spoil it just ferments and I can still consume it 2 weeks after its peremption date - it just becomes buttermilk.
What a mistake.
After those 10 days of suffering, I had lots of muscle twitchings, muscle cramping, and some tiredness all day, not a huge deal I needed to recover and to rehydrate myself.
However about a week in the recovery phase, it all started. I will try to do my best to describe all the symptoms I experienced, they all came pretty much at the same time.
- I had this sharp pain located in the lower left of my stomach, every time I would eat. It was constantly strained after a meal, and would sometimes wake me up in the middle of the night. Moreover, this strain was accompanied with weird difficulties to digest: my stomach was SO noisy, even hours after a meal. I woke up once in the middle of the night, 10 hours after my last meal, because of my stomach working too hard, tensing in the area, weird feeling on my feet (as if I needed to move them) and diarrhea. Eventually the diarrhea went over and constipation came in, but it was a lot easier to handle. (Right now I don't have poo-related symptoms anymore). I've also "tried" not to eat for 48 hours straight, because of no hunger and pain. I still had diarrhea (really slow transit ?)
- Constant fatigue, I'm not insomniac but my sleep went from 8hours to 5-6 hours, and a feeling of restlessness when I wake up.
- One of the worst, very regularly after meals, I get VERY angry and irritated. I'm the nice and smiley kind of person, but in those moments every single thing in the world -including the present moment- is highly irritating me and I'd like to quit everything. This symptom attenuated but I still have it regularly (whereas before the illness I would get a lot of "positive" energy after a meal.).
- dry and red eyes - they were "stoned", half-closed and achy all day long -, dry hairs, greasy hairs, it was a calvary and impossible to comb.
- Liquids, and espacially WATER, were a horror. I totally lost the taste for water (i'm not into soda, since i'm a kid I've always appreciated pure water) and a single glass would wreck up my stomach. All liquids were very painful (still have this problem RN but alleviated)
- During this period, I noticed a lot of new moles on my skin (not the 3D ones, just the classical browny spots). At first I thought I was just being paranoid but oh god, they developped on my body and also on my face, this is secondary but it is still annoying and worrying.
- I took 10 years on my face. My skin is irregular, I have a subtle greyish tan, and I look a little bit puffy. It's been 1 month that everytime I see me on the mirror I feel like an old man.
- Mentally speaking, it was brutal. Eventhough my life isn't perfect and I had some problems to solve, I was in a good mood with great energy so I was confident and could overcome all these stressors. But since that moment, I am -so much- a rollercoaster. My mood is defined by every tiny things that happen to me. It can go from top to bottom in a single second and I'm not exagerating. I became totally unstable.
RN i'm lucid but it happen very rarely that's why I calm down, do some researches and seek help, and I know those dark moments can come back easily and will eventually end up very bad. It really feels like I'm POSSESSED, sometimes I'm not myself and I oscillate between states few times in a day.
I think it is related and worth noting too, sometimes I experience some "autistic" symptoms as I like to call them. I become very paranoid with everyone, I can't talk to anybody without blushing, I feel like ***t, try to talk to people but can't as if I wasn't connected with myself. Connection lost. It is so disturbing.
So, experts related now:
There's a lot to say. I did some doctors which couldn't figure out what it was, and I did some bloodtest for thyroid - hepatitis - mononucleosis - sodium/potassium - lymphocytes - hematocrit / platelets - liver function - kidney function - some inflammation markers and other stuff.
Well, the weird thing is that everything above is in range, EXCEPT the platelets. Normal range is like 150-400 and I hit 1000. However, they couldn't figure out why 'cause I have no markers of inflammation, the abdominal echography I made was OK everywhere.
It means it is not infectious, etc etc.
note: however I was positive for Hepatitis A without precision (just written "positive") but since I had a vaccine against it 8 months ago, my doctor said it was OK. For mononucleosis, I already had it in the past but markers were at least suspicious, and at most very very high. He said it was also normal. I don't know if I have to doubt his interpretation but I keep that in mind.
He oriented me to some hemato-experts, and a psychiatrist. He said my digestive problems was psy-related, but IMO it is totally the opposite. Everything was doing right until digestive problems came in the equation.
He also diagnosed me with irritable bowel, thus the title. It could be indeed IBS.
Using Ray Peat articles, I made a connection - if I'm correct he told that platelets can release serotonin, I don't know why, I don't know how, but I have high platelets for no reasons and what seems to be a very high serotonin situation. I saw haidut say that IBS could be caused only by high serotonin, if I'm correct.
__________________________________________________________________________
I am used to have weird-and-unsolvable-by-mainstream-medecin illness, and my intuition is telling me it is a new one and I'm not done with seeing all these experts yet before they aim good.
Well, I think this forum is an appropriate place to tell my story, because after reading some haidut's posts (as always, and thank you for everything you taught to me btw !), I can pretty much say that serotonin is highly related, and antagonists could help me.
I know everything is linked somehow and I have to connect the pieces of the puzzle, that's why I'm asking your help and your opinion, and I would be pleased if you @haidut could give your opinion as it is always enlightening.
I'm seeing a psychiatrist soon so if you have an idea of what chemical I could try to help with my unstability, it would be a pleasure. Cyproheptadine ?
Also, I'm a 20yo boy, with no particular digestive issues until now (well it always fluctuated between good and bad but never that bad).
I feel like there's a piece of the puzzle I'm not seeing because it took very high proportion for no "visible" reasons. Your help is greatly appreciated ! I'd love to be back to life.