Brokenxsmile07
07-07-2007, 11:26 AM
Ever since I was young I’ve always had a problem with my weight, and my doctor (whom we got rid of) who would blame my mother because of her size. One point it got so bad that the doctor told my mom that it wouldn’t hurt if I stopped eating! No doctor should say that to anyone, especially someone so young!
I kept on gaining weight without knowing why, I really never eat! So the kids in school began to harass me about my size, making me more depressed then normal at so young of age. Sure I’m a teenage girl but never in my life was I ever thinking that low on myself. Soon I began to get irritable at my family, friends, and teachers. Then I would have constant anxiety over everything, even something that I normally wouldn’t. Not knowing how to do a question on my homework to doing a simple chore got me upset and I would just cry and give up half way through my given task.
Soon after I began to become hot out of no where, especially when I would eat food that was warmed up in the microwave or anything. So my new doctor thought it was a thyroid problem, because it runs on my dads side of the family. But the results came back normal.
Slowly I even became anti-social to everyone at home, not really talking to them by staying in my room or always being over at a friends house. I was tired of feeling as though the world was against me and I was tired of always being mad or crying for no reason.
My chest would hurt and I would become out of breath for no reason, I would just be sitting down and watching TV or being on the computer and it would feel like my heart was going to explode. The gastrologist first diagnosed me with acid reflux, and put me on three different pills and not one worked. So yet again the doctors would always point to the fact that I was over weight and a “need for physical fitness”. I would try to run in school, try my best but half way through I would have to stop and catch my breath or sit down for a few minutes until I felt better.
One day I noticed stretch marks on my stomach and told my mom, she thought that I was gaining weight faster then my skin could grow. But are purplish pink and sink into my skin. I knew something was not right, I mean a 15 year old having stretch marks like that was something I never heard of before,
Then one day (yah I know I say those two words a lot) my mom and I was sitting down watching House M.D., it was the episode when that young girl had Cushing’s Disease. At the time neither me or my mom thought anything of it until we began to look into it. All the symptoms began to match up. The weight gain, depression, stretch marks…everything pointed to one thing!
Yah, I know I’m only 16 but I know when something is wrong with my body, along with my mother. Yet the doctors would look past me and look at my mother, look at me and not at her! Just recently we went to my nieces doctors because she was sick so we decided to kill two birds with one stone. When we told her my symptoms she would give an explanation totally different then Cushing’s, for every little thing. Then she saw that I had a hump on my neck, which my mom has but that’s also a symptom. So now thankfully I’m going to see a specialists and get some tests done, and get everything taken care of.
I kept on gaining weight without knowing why, I really never eat! So the kids in school began to harass me about my size, making me more depressed then normal at so young of age. Sure I’m a teenage girl but never in my life was I ever thinking that low on myself. Soon I began to get irritable at my family, friends, and teachers. Then I would have constant anxiety over everything, even something that I normally wouldn’t. Not knowing how to do a question on my homework to doing a simple chore got me upset and I would just cry and give up half way through my given task.
Soon after I began to become hot out of no where, especially when I would eat food that was warmed up in the microwave or anything. So my new doctor thought it was a thyroid problem, because it runs on my dads side of the family. But the results came back normal.
Slowly I even became anti-social to everyone at home, not really talking to them by staying in my room or always being over at a friends house. I was tired of feeling as though the world was against me and I was tired of always being mad or crying for no reason.
My chest would hurt and I would become out of breath for no reason, I would just be sitting down and watching TV or being on the computer and it would feel like my heart was going to explode. The gastrologist first diagnosed me with acid reflux, and put me on three different pills and not one worked. So yet again the doctors would always point to the fact that I was over weight and a “need for physical fitness”. I would try to run in school, try my best but half way through I would have to stop and catch my breath or sit down for a few minutes until I felt better.
One day I noticed stretch marks on my stomach and told my mom, she thought that I was gaining weight faster then my skin could grow. But are purplish pink and sink into my skin. I knew something was not right, I mean a 15 year old having stretch marks like that was something I never heard of before,
Then one day (yah I know I say those two words a lot) my mom and I was sitting down watching House M.D., it was the episode when that young girl had Cushing’s Disease. At the time neither me or my mom thought anything of it until we began to look into it. All the symptoms began to match up. The weight gain, depression, stretch marks…everything pointed to one thing!
Yah, I know I’m only 16 but I know when something is wrong with my body, along with my mother. Yet the doctors would look past me and look at my mother, look at me and not at her! Just recently we went to my nieces doctors because she was sick so we decided to kill two birds with one stone. When we told her my symptoms she would give an explanation totally different then Cushing’s, for every little thing. Then she saw that I had a hump on my neck, which my mom has but that’s also a symptom. So now thankfully I’m going to see a specialists and get some tests done, and get everything taken care of.