Anyone that can help!

[chico1]

43 year old male, never have been sick a day in my life until July 07 (high blood pressure 2 years). Up until July, baseball, bar-b-q, and lots of beer. Since then my life has been a nightmare. It started with feeling of nausea, light headiness, and weakness, thought I was going to drop.
7/14 ER ELEVATED AST(63) AND ALT(105)
7/15 ER AGAIN
7/20 ER ONCE MORE
7/30 ER (referred me to a Gastrologist Dr.and Neurologist)
8/10 The Gastro performed a upper and lower. He fixed 3 ulcers in my stomach and 4 polyps in my colon. I expressed my concern for cirrhosis. his exam was tapping on my mid-section, looking in my mouth, and he looked at my skin. At this time a new symptom started. My face and neck felt like it was on fire, pressure on the back of my neck, and real flush. I had to carry an  ice cold towel around with me.
8/20 Heart Dr. ran blood test enzymes back to normal. ( symptoms the same)
8/30 Went to a different GI for second opinion he immediately sent me for a MRI and ultra sound.
I could go on forever, to make it short I have had double of all these test
cat scan head, MRI, mra, and EEG of head, all normal,
nuclear stress test, EKG, cardiogram of heart, all normal
ultra sound,mri with and without contrast chest, and pelvic region, all normal except on the gall bladder it said possible polyp verses stone.( it came out Dec. 4th along with a liver biopsy) The results from pathologist
liver wedge excision
   very mild patchy metamorphosis
   small hemangioma
liver, needle biopsy intraoperatively
   patchy and mild metamorphosis
   large bile duct with periductal fibrosis
Symptoms still with me along with a few more
Sharp pains through out body especially mid section
rib pain both sides  
back pain
numbness
head aches and
many more.


Thanks for reading and any help or advise you can give.
Chico

[chico1]

Thanks for your reply. I have been monitoring both my blood pressure and sugar level for awhile now. You are right about the Hypertension, at first that is what they ( all the Drs.) thought it was. We went through several (5) different types of pills before finally stopping with metetoporal. My blood pressure is consistently below 120/80. Most of the time it is around 115/70. The part about becoming  a connoisseur is funny. That is what I do for a living. How ironic. I do not taste anymore. Not until someone finds out what is wrong with me. That is the hardest part. So many test, so many doctors. GP, HEART DOCTOR ( ONE OF THE BEST IN HOUSTON), GASTRO, NEUROLOGIST, RHUMATOID ARTHRITIST, not one can figure me out. My wife is starting to think I need a shrink as well. Thanks for replying.

[chico1]

Thanks for your reply. Yes I have stopped drinking beer, and I also fixed my diet as well. Although with the exception of the beer my diet was not all bad. However I did go to the extreme and started eating only fruits and vegetables, too much green leafy veggies with iron. That ran my ferritin level above 400. Since then I have more of a mix. The symptoms and tests  that I had posted were just the tip of the iceberg. In my blood test results the only scores that had ever been high were my ALT, AST, FERRITIN, and GGT.
After a few month they have all returned to normal. My symptoms started like yours, however they have just progressed. Thanks and Good Luck,  
  

[ggreg]

Chico,
You have the classic symptoms of high blood pressure.  Hypertension causes that hot flushing of your face, the truest indicator of the problem.  Other symptoms associated with it are the headaches, dizziness, and nausea.  Since you have been dealing with high blood pressure for a couple years now, I would say it has apparently gotten way out of control.  

I don't care what tests you've had, it is important that your physician reevaluate your treatment for the disease, and if he brushes you off, go see another doctor, until someone focuses down on this issue.  Some natural treatments that are helpful in the meantime are eating lots of garlic, watch your eating habits, get enough rest.  Switch from beer to wine, sorry.  But you can become a conniseur and fix a wine cellar and go to wine tastings and have all sorts of fun with it.  

While liver disease may one day be a problem for you, right now it is the hypertension that could take away life as you know it within a split second.  If you do not believe me about the blood pressure, pull up a few websites on hypertension and educate yourself, find a helpful doctor, and you should be feeling worlds better in just a few weeks...but you will have to deal with this as a lifetime issue.  But you aren't the only one.
GG

[Jacker]

That's a a lot of symptoms, and I don't know if we are similar in this way, but have you stopped drinking the beer?  I was like you - I could eat anything and I was drinking lots of beer - no health problems and plenty of excercise.  Last year, I had lightheadedness, dizzyness, racing heartbeats, and elevated BP.  By the year's end, I had pains in my right side.  My back was hurting me too.  After abstaining from beer, cutting back the caffine by a lot, and cleaining up my diet, I feel a lot better.  Not perfect, but I figure there is some damage to undo.  
I think I'm more active than most 42 year olds, but we still aren't young forever - - it does catch up with you.  Hope this helps.