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Undiagnosed and feeling helpless.

Thank you for viewing my post. I'm an 19 year old female from London.

I have had a problem for the past few weeks that are stopping me live a normal life. I have been recently suffering with severe abdominal pain the ended up with me being hospitalised on two seperate occasions for several days.

The symptoms I've been experiencing are severe abdominal pains, mainly on my right side but sometimes left. It spreads to my groin and back. I also get awful stabbing pains up my vagina and anus that sometimes lead to the most painful abdominal pain I've experience in my life. I cannot move, even coughing or laughing is painful. It makes me feel nauseas and sometimes faint. I also have had blood in my urine for the past few weeks on top of a weekly 'period'.

The only medication I have been taking is the depo, that was from May-August. The whole time I bled through it and it stopped briefly for a week after I was due to get another. Now I get a heavy bleed every few days for the past 3 months.

I don't know if these symptoms are related as the pain is normally felt more towards the right side of my abdominal, not near any reproductive organs. I don't usualy suffer with period pain and when I do this is nothing like it. This is a sharp pain, not an ache.

I have no STI's and definitely not pregnant. I have had a few blood tests, urine tests which showed blood and a CT scan on my kidney and also a ultra sound; no cysts on my ovaries. My white blood cells where a high count so they initially thought it was a uti but later concluded it wasn't and discharged me from hospital with a 'undiagnosed abdominal pain'. The doctors aren't doing much at all.

If someone out there can give me and help or advise I will be most grateful.
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1530171 tn?1448129593
Underactive thyroid, means that the thyroid gland is not producing enough thyroid hormone.
In many, if not in most, patients, the problem is elsewhere.
When the thyroid produces enough thyroid hormone,  for a number of reasons it may not  be bioactive.( it does not enter the cells and it just circulates in the serum).
The standard thyroid tests (T3, T4 & TSH) do not detect this, as they only indicate the serum circulating levels.

I have a friend who has narcolepsy, adrenal fatigue & secondary hypothyroidism (resulting from the adrenal fatigue).

Hope this helps.
Niko


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Thank you for getting back to me.

I have been tested for an under active thyoid as I have a narcolepsy and they checked this when I first showed my symptoms of narcolepsy.

Is this what you refer to?
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1530171 tn?1448129593
It would be good to know your estrogen and progesterone levels, to ensure your estrogen to progesterone ratio is right.
What are you on now?

Unfortunately standard Thyroid testing does not indicate Hypothyroidism
type 2, which is similar to diabetes 2. The serum levels are fine, yet the
thyroid function (in the cells) is low (thyroid resistance)
For this you need Free T3, Free T4 AND Reverse T3  

Cheers.
Niko
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Thank you for your response. I have been on both the combined pill and an estrogen only pill. I have had a thyroid test and that's all normal also.

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1530171 tn?1448129593
Hi Candie.

Have you looked into estrogen dominance or other hormonal imbalance?
What birth control are you using, if any?

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