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Old 09-11-2002, 10:53 AM   #1
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Question night sweats, weakness, sick feeling????

My husband is 43 and moderately overweight. Over the past few years each fall and winter when the temperature outside goes below 70 or so he starts feeling sick. In general he is very tired all the time and has no energy. Most days he cannot go to work (self-employed as a remodeler) and when he does go he often comes home early because he is too weak. Sometimes he can sleep but at night he often cannot. He states he feels weird inside all the time, has chills and is weak. At night he has profuse sweating where the bed sheets become soaked. He usually has a low grade temperature. In addition but it comes and goes he has frequent heartburn, diarrhea and bloody (dark) stool. He has seen a specialist for chronic sinus infections and antibiotics (when we can get them) sometimes help but only temporarily. He has been tested for all the usual things such as H-pylorie, TB, Hep. HIV, etc. None indicated anything. He has hypoglycemia but this is under control. We have monitored his glucose levels but they do not correlate with any of the symptoms. We have also tried all kind of vitamins including Melaluca. We have also been to a chiropractor for some back pain and those adjustments did not effect the symptoms either. We do not have insurance so we cannot afford to visit doctor after doctor. We have to be very selective on what we do. He (we) is frustrated and refuses to even go to the local clinic now that we have been many times with no results. So basically at the moment we are doing nothing. (except praying for directions and answers) Can any one help or have any ideas on which direction to go next?? Thank you.

 
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Old 09-18-2002, 10:20 PM   #2
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You husband has symptoms consistent with hormonal inbalance, possibly adrenal insufficiency and/or low thyroid. The symptoms are often difficult to diagnose because they are intermittant and good days can follow bad days with no obvious reason. His low blood sugar, combined with overweight is a classic symptom because those rarely go together. I will guess some others like: low libido, intolerance to cold/hot, thinking about doing work exhausts him, irritable, muscle/joint pains, bowl problems like diahrea but its not, sugar cravings, salt cravings, dry skin, thick skin on his feet, a feeling like you are watching life pass by on the TV rather than living it, possibly headaches and the outer 1/3 of his eyebrows are sparse.

If he has many of those symptoms then you need to go to the doctor and get a simple blood test for TSH (thyroid), morning testosterone, prolactin (a tumor marker in males), and morning cortisol (adrenal hormones). My guess is at least two of these are low or low-normal. If they are he will need further tests to find out why. Don't put it off because this isn't going to get better and it can get a lot worse.


 
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