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Unexplained weight loss and bad taste in mouth, many other symptoms
Hello,
I'm a 26 year old male otherwise healthy. I drink on average 12 beers a day, which i know is not good for me, and on the weekends or get togethers more than that. For the past 4 years I've been having heart palpitations, and a 26 beat run of ventricular tachycardia. EP dr thought it to be benign, 1 out of 4 EP's I seen wanted me to do the EP study and "possible" ablation. As far as that goes and testing I've wore holter monitors, ekgs, stress test, stress echo, MRI of the heart, echos, blood work, all normal besides some PVC's, and that run of V-tach. Now I'm going to go 3 months back.
3 months ago I started having slight headaches, and a weird taste in my mouth everynow and then. It has been getting constantly worse and now I have headaches occasionally and the bad taste in my mouth is there ALL the time, wife says my breath smells bad/weird sometimes with it, its really hard to explain the taste its just very unusual and feels like sometimes its coming from the roof of my mouth. It dont go away no matter how much I brush my teeth. Sometimes when I go to wash clothes and I'm pouring the powder laundry detergent and I smell the powder, its almost as if you would put some of that in your mouth and it tastes like that all the time though. Thats the best description I can give of the taste. Since this has started about 3 months or less ago, I've also lost about 18 lbs unintentionally. My appetite is not good at all, just no desire to eat. I dont exercise or do anything so that cant be the cause. I also recently developed these strange muscle spasms/twinges, and muscle cramps everywhere, this started about 3-4 weeks ago, before they started I was having muscle pains in my thighs, and calves, and it would switch from one to the other throughout the day. I also get them in my arms, and sometimes feels like in my head. I get the twitches everywhere, legs, arms, eye. And I have musle pains in my legs all day, mainly in back of calves. My urine is ALWAYS very clear, no color to it at all. I'm also constantly fatigued all day, no matter how much I sleep it seems like Im just worn out and tired. What could all these symptoms be of? Dr ordered blood work for thyroid,CBC,kidney,liver,electrolytes,B12 all was normal. Waiting results of heavy metal screening blood work. Seems like my palpitations are getting worse also with it and my chest feels weird at times. Also have been getting like cold sweats and temporary nausea. Just seems like all the symptoms are becoming more prominant and more often. The leg pain and the bad taste in mouth is the most constant. I know this is a list of things but if anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks so much!
I'm a 26 year old male otherwise healthy. I drink on average 12 beers a day, which i know is not good for me, and on the weekends or get togethers more than that. For the past 4 years I've been having heart palpitations, and a 26 beat run of ventricular tachycardia. EP dr thought it to be benign, 1 out of 4 EP's I seen wanted me to do the EP study and "possible" ablation. As far as that goes and testing I've wore holter monitors, ekgs, stress test, stress echo, MRI of the heart, echos, blood work, all normal besides some PVC's, and that run of V-tach. Now I'm going to go 3 months back.
3 months ago I started having slight headaches, and a weird taste in my mouth everynow and then. It has been getting constantly worse and now I have headaches occasionally and the bad taste in my mouth is there ALL the time, wife says my breath smells bad/weird sometimes with it, its really hard to explain the taste its just very unusual and feels like sometimes its coming from the roof of my mouth. It dont go away no matter how much I brush my teeth. Sometimes when I go to wash clothes and I'm pouring the powder laundry detergent and I smell the powder, its almost as if you would put some of that in your mouth and it tastes like that all the time though. Thats the best description I can give of the taste. Since this has started about 3 months or less ago, I've also lost about 18 lbs unintentionally. My appetite is not good at all, just no desire to eat. I dont exercise or do anything so that cant be the cause. I also recently developed these strange muscle spasms/twinges, and muscle cramps everywhere, this started about 3-4 weeks ago, before they started I was having muscle pains in my thighs, and calves, and it would switch from one to the other throughout the day. I also get them in my arms, and sometimes feels like in my head. I get the twitches everywhere, legs, arms, eye. And I have musle pains in my legs all day, mainly in back of calves. My urine is ALWAYS very clear, no color to it at all. I'm also constantly fatigued all day, no matter how much I sleep it seems like Im just worn out and tired. What could all these symptoms be of? Dr ordered blood work for thyroid,CBC,kidney,liver,electrolytes,B12 all was normal. Waiting results of heavy metal screening blood work. Seems like my palpitations are getting worse also with it and my chest feels weird at times. Also have been getting like cold sweats and temporary nausea. Just seems like all the symptoms are becoming more prominant and more often. The leg pain and the bad taste in mouth is the most constant. I know this is a list of things but if anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks so much!
I have exactly the same problem as you .i don't drink at all .but I do suffer from ME ,plus menopause ..every day I have a metallic taste ,and I can't stand the smell of washing powder either ,certain smells feel like there in my mouth ...it does affect your digestive system ,bowel ,nervous system ,for now I live with it and it's horrid ...
You've got at least 2 things going on. Maybe more!!!
Stop drinking. At least until you get to the bottom of everything else that's going on.
If you can't stop drinking, then face the fact that you have a drinking problem and seek help for that, as well.
And if you think that you can stop but that you just choose not to, you probably STILL have a drinking problem.
(I'm speaking to you as an alcoholic, so please know that I'm not passing any kind of judgment on you.)
I have seen a couple of heavy drinkers in my life who had little appetite and who kept losing weight. (But not as fast as your weight loss seems to be.) They were older, hard core drinkers and they eventually died from drinking-related illnesses.)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome can cause the bad taste in the mouth, the loose stools, heart palpitations, headache, fatigue, and sleeping problems.
It can also cause anxiety, depression, and other symptoms.
You can read about it in many places online.
If you go to http://www.webmd.com/ibs/guide/irritable-bowel-syndrome-ibs-symptoms you can read more about it AND it has a link to other conditions with similar symproms.
One of those being Celiac disease. THAT one can cause weight loss.
I didn't see anything about cramps but both myself and my mother are being plagued by cramps.
Because of that, I have Googled causes for that more than a couple of times.
There's a lot of things that can cause that.
Kidney disease itself can cause cramps.
So can some of the medications my mother takes for Diabetes.
Low Potassium can cause cramps.
Low Magnesium can cause cramps (and my mother just had a blood test done to see if this might be the problem in her case.)
Dehydration can cause cramps and I think it's quite likely that you ARE dehydrated, because drinking alcohol causes it.
And although that makes it sound like 'just drink more water!' is the answer, that's not how it works.
You will be a little better if you drink more water than if you don't, but it will NOT bring you back to the point of hydration that is healthy.
You will have to stop drinking to achieve that.
(IF that's causing you to be dehydrated.)
You're symptoms are frightening and serious, at least to me!!!
Definitely keep seeing your doctor and searching for the answers to the problems you are having, but you could do the following things to see if any of them help. Get your doc's okay, first!!
Stop drinking.
Drink more water.
Start following a gluten-free diet. (It won't hurt you to do so, at least short term, and you may be able to tell rather quickly if that's part of your problem.)
My daughter has Irritable Bowel Syndrome (and Sjogren's Syndrome) and she has gotten MUCH better since cleaning up her diet.
Good luck!!!
I hope you find out what's going on and that it's treatable and that you'll soon be feeling much better!!
Stop drinking. At least until you get to the bottom of everything else that's going on.
If you can't stop drinking, then face the fact that you have a drinking problem and seek help for that, as well.
And if you think that you can stop but that you just choose not to, you probably STILL have a drinking problem.
(I'm speaking to you as an alcoholic, so please know that I'm not passing any kind of judgment on you.)
I have seen a couple of heavy drinkers in my life who had little appetite and who kept losing weight. (But not as fast as your weight loss seems to be.) They were older, hard core drinkers and they eventually died from drinking-related illnesses.)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome can cause the bad taste in the mouth, the loose stools, heart palpitations, headache, fatigue, and sleeping problems.
It can also cause anxiety, depression, and other symptoms.
You can read about it in many places online.
If you go to http://www.webmd.com/ibs/guide/irritable-bowel-syndrome-ibs-symptoms you can read more about it AND it has a link to other conditions with similar symproms.
One of those being Celiac disease. THAT one can cause weight loss.
I didn't see anything about cramps but both myself and my mother are being plagued by cramps.
Because of that, I have Googled causes for that more than a couple of times.
There's a lot of things that can cause that.
Kidney disease itself can cause cramps.
So can some of the medications my mother takes for Diabetes.
Low Potassium can cause cramps.
Low Magnesium can cause cramps (and my mother just had a blood test done to see if this might be the problem in her case.)
Dehydration can cause cramps and I think it's quite likely that you ARE dehydrated, because drinking alcohol causes it.
And although that makes it sound like 'just drink more water!' is the answer, that's not how it works.
You will be a little better if you drink more water than if you don't, but it will NOT bring you back to the point of hydration that is healthy.
You will have to stop drinking to achieve that.
(IF that's causing you to be dehydrated.)
You're symptoms are frightening and serious, at least to me!!!
Definitely keep seeing your doctor and searching for the answers to the problems you are having, but you could do the following things to see if any of them help. Get your doc's okay, first!!
Stop drinking.
Drink more water.
Start following a gluten-free diet. (It won't hurt you to do so, at least short term, and you may be able to tell rather quickly if that's part of your problem.)
My daughter has Irritable Bowel Syndrome (and Sjogren's Syndrome) and she has gotten MUCH better since cleaning up her diet.
Good luck!!!
I hope you find out what's going on and that it's treatable and that you'll soon be feeling much better!!
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You know what causes weight loss, puts your life in immediate danger, and is common among alcoholics?
KETOTIC ACIDOSIS
KETOTIC ACIDOSIS
I also have all the same symptoms and I never drink, did you ever find out what was the cause?
One thing you need to look at is the 12 beers a day. Until you get your drinking under control your body may be reacting to that. Being an alcoholic (which if you drink 12 beer a day you are) is going to cause issues. Now I'm not saying there aren't issues independant of the drinking just that the drinking will mask other problems or make them worse. Do your doctors know about your drinking problem? You know it is an issue, otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it. Don't you owe it to yourself to see if things get better minus the beer? AA is a really great program. My best friend still goes and has been sober years.
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Yup and alcohol consumption DEPLETES MAGNESIUM
i also wake up at EXACTLY around 4:30am every morning with racing and skipping heartbeat, what could cause this at the same time every morning, think its the VT?
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Hi Steven, SO many things you are experiencing, I have had as well. I am also a nurse of 27 years. You are at the prime age for Supraventicular tachycardia to start. I was 23 when mine kicked in from an accessory electrical pathway around my AV Node. I had a radio frequency ablation at that time. About 4 years ago, my pathway came back, and I had to have a cryoablation. I think maybe an EP study would be a good idea for you. Go see an arrhythmia specialist. You can have a normal EKG and halter monitor, and still have an accessory pathway. I had 2!! I agree with some of these other reader comments--dehydration is a given if you are drinking that many beers daily--I also do not judge :) Beer flushes your kidneys like a diuretic, therefore dehydrating you much faster. The more you urinate, the more electrolytes you are peeing down the toilet. Did your bloodwork show any electrolyte difficiencies? If so, these electrolyte imbalances can cause life-threatening arrhythmias as well as the cramping in your body. You can try a bit of tonic water before you go to sleep--it contains quinine--helps with leg cramps.---I found your post because I am also experiencing weight loss--19 lbs in under 6 weeks--and my food all tastes bad or rancid if it has any kind of oil in it. I don't really have a bad taste in my mouth or bad breath, but not being able to taste good food anymore is something I wouldn't wish on the devil himself. Just the smell of food cooking makes me nauseated. Is this the same thing you are experiencing??
Has any of your doctor's thought of Chronic Fatige Syndrome? It has many different symptoms.
Many doctor's dont believe in it, so they don't consider it.
Many doctor's dont believe in it, so they don't consider it.
what other further liver testing could be done? and if the blood work showed normal wouldnt it be impossible to have liver disease/damage? please help, since last post ive lost about 5lbs, and the symptoms are still there, especially the really odd taste in my mouth, and muscle pains,twitches, and cramps. mainly in legs. i also had an echocardiogram done again yesterday and my ejection fraction was 68% and he said I had mild/moderate leakage on my tricuspid valve. ALL blood work been normal so far.
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Once again: SEVERE.MAGNESIUM.DEFICIENCY
(Also if this guy is a heart specialist he ought to be fired for not immediately ruling this out)
(Also if this guy is a heart specialist he ought to be fired for not immediately ruling this out)
Also stop ******* around on the internet and go to a hospital immediately! Tell them you suspect you have a severe magnesium deficiency and that you urgently need a blood test to confirm (followed IV of MgSO4 ASAP) because you are at extreme risk for heart failure. Then repeat the symptoms you've listed here along with those frightening echocardiogram results and enable them to help you long-term by telling them how much alcohol you consume (or don't if you want another fun hospital adventure in the near future for the same thing or worse).
Doesn't sound like kidney disease. Sounds more like something with nerve conductivity, perhaps MS? Although MS wouldn't affect the taste in your mouth I don't think. Sorry no answers but I am pretty sure it isn't kidney - the blood work will show if it is.
Also have very loose stools ALL the time.
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SEVERE.MAGNESIUM.DEFICIENCY
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