Not to bring things down but… when you’ve been dealing with an undiagnosed illness which has gone on for months (i.e. me), you’ll be happy to take someone with the bedside manner of Dr. House as long as you get some sort of answer.
And no, it isn’t lupus.
Have you considered it’s all in your head? /s
The funny thing is we actually considered some sort of brain issue, but according to my neurologist after seeing my MRI, I have a very healthy brain.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m not imagining things. Who knows? Anything could be psychosomatic.
Things could be psychosomatic, but I was being sarcastic for a reason. Many people dismiss other’s pain as psychosomatic as a quick way to ignore their needs. I say trust yourself as much as it makes sense to do so.
Actually, it’s not a pain thing. I’m in no pain from it at all. It’s just a mystery. I dry heave every morning like I have morning sickness (unlikely due to, like, having a penis) and I have been unable to eat solid food since August (I had another six-week bout in March). I live on Ensure and Gatorade. I have had a ton of tests- X-rays, labs, an MRI, a HIDA scan and two EGDs (where they send a scope down your throat). I have had a biopsy of my stomach. I have had my gallbladder removed. Nothing has changed. So I have an appointment at the Mayo Clinic for the end of March (unless someone cancels and I can get in sooner) where hopefully I’ll meet my Doctor House and get this sorted out.
But there’s no pain and very little discomfort. I feel fine most of the time. I can live a relatively normal life despite this, although obviously I have fairly low energy. I mean it sucks not eating, I’d love to eat. A new Nepalese restaurant opened here. I’ve never even had Nepalese food! I drive by it all the time and look at the pictures outside and think, “wow, I wish I could eat that.” But I can’t. It’s not nausea, it’s a total aversion to food. The smell, the texture, etc. And no hunger ever. My GP described it as similar to anorexia but with a physical cause. We just don’t know what that cause is.
The only positive is that I’ve lost 70 pounds and am 10 pounds away from my ideal weight. I still look fat, but hey, we can’t have everything. So I do recommend having a mystery illness where you can’t eat if you want to lose weight. It works better than Ozempic!
I hope you get that all sorted, good luck!
Thanks!
I actually remember reading about a case similar to yours on cracked.com of all places. The guy would vomit out any food he ate and it continued for months.
Apparently, he had a respiratory infection, but instead of lungs it went to his guts and messed his digestive system up. He ended up taking antipsychotics to trick his body into thinking that everything was fine.
Hooray. Unfortunately, that’s not me. For one thing, when this started I was on an antipsychotic (not because I’m psychotic, it’s for a nerve disorder, but I don’t take it anymore) and for another, and this is one of the weird parts, I never have thrown anything up. It’s always a dry heave. Even when I was able to eat.
Not to be too gross, but how’s your poo?
Have you had Covid (or Covid symptoms) shortly before this started happening? I think the new booster didn’t come out until September.
It is what you would expect from someone who has a diet low in fiber.
And I had COVID in between the bouts of not eating.
Also, no offense meant here, but I really do not want medical advice over the internet from people I don’t know.
Completely understandable. Some doctors are reluctant to consider long COVID, even though food aversion could be caused by it.
Good luck getting to the bottom of it. I’d be freaking out the more mysterious it gets. Especially for a GI issue since they can get a pretty damn good look at the whole thing from several angles.
Re: the fiber…not even liquid Metamucil? I’d be feeling terrible if I was going months without a good poo. That’d probably be more difficult for me than living off ensure (considering I had voluntarily done several week juice-fasts or just soylent+coffee)
Note that neurology is a science at an infant stage. Not only do we have limited tools to analyze the brain, we barely know how it works. In contrast, even though plenty of forms of cancer are very difficult to treat, we have a solid understanding of how it works, we just have difficulties creating remedies that are safe and effective for all forms of cancer.
That’s one of the signs of lupus. /s
How do your shoes look? Could be butthole worms
At an opposite corner of the spectrum, you can rarely find doctors as smug as House but as unable to help you as all the others you have previously visited.
It’s never lupus
Except that one damn time.
Butthole worms are verrrrrrrry common.
Also,use a bidet guys.
Are they generally thirsty, too?
unless life gives you chocolate pow-pow, make lemons🤌🏿
It’s great when you watch it off and on but it’s painful binging it.
All the Sherlock Holmes type derivatives are much like that, back in the day when I would watch a bunch of episodes it was mostly enjoyable because Hugh Laurie is just such a great actor.
Lupis was always the metaphorical man caught holding the gun lol
You should try Jeremy Brett’s version of Sherlock Holmes. I didn’t binge it, but it was pretty good for that old timey kind of show.
The same-y ness of the episodes really stands out when you do this. On a binge, I found myself watching it more for the character arcs than the diagnostic drama… which is not the show’s strong point. :(
it was made for the once a week way of watching. just choose a day to be house day every week. instantly better experience
It’s weird how a lot of those types of shows seem different just a few years later, in the streaming/binge-watching era.
Those types of shows…House, CSI, etc…the formula itself just gets so dull and routine over and over again with nothing in between.
Conversely, long drawn out dramas that don’t reset 90% of the stage every episode, like Breaking Bad work really well. I’d say it even works well for most of GoT.
In fact, I’d say it makes some shows better. “Lost” was a big letdown for people watching it week to week and season to season over the course of nearly six years. But when I binge-watched it for the first time over a few weeks, I don’t think it was nearly as bad as an ending as people make it out to be.
I never watched Weeds all the way through. I quit when it started getting too self-aware and cliche (somewhere around the tunnel). It was just right before that, and it started to fall off. I think watching it in a binge manner might be a bit more quaint because that shark-jumping becomes part of its charm.
Part of what made LOST enjoyable was the wait between episodes, and the rabid fandom that generated. Fan forums were all over the place, and people just kept lobbing theory after theory out there about WTF was going on. Add in frame-by-frame breakdowns, the few times writers proved a few fans true on some truly wild ideas, and the official ARGs, and it just became this whole phenomenon. Neither of the show’s endings were ever going to live up to that hype, and in retrospect, makes those takes as much in the moment as the show itself.
Re-watching it on a binge is doable, but more closely emulates what the producers experienced prior to broadcast. Which is to say it’s entertaining, but not the same entertainment.
Yes, this is a fair point. The wait between episodes was just as important as the episodes themselves. All the community buildup, discussion, fan theories, etc.
That may not be the majority of viewers, but they certainly are your shows “free” hype men. They’re the ones that’ll tell everyone they know who would be interested (pre-qualified leads!) all about their favorite new obsession. They’re also the ones that’ll buy merch, or name their kid after Daenerys Targaryen (they say that Danielle is an old family name and they just call their girl Danni for short but you know it’s because they were heavy GoT watchers).
Maybe that’s part of why streaming services are going back to weekly (i.e. Handsmaid Tale) or split-season (i.e. Stranger Things) releases. It’s not just for profit…the suspense between the episodes can be just as, if not more, valuable and enjoyable as the episodes themselves.
Maybe that’s part of why streaming services are going back to weekly (i.e. Handsmaid Tale) or split-season (i.e. Stranger Things) releases. It’s not just for profit…the suspense between the episodes can be just as, if not more, valuable and enjoyable as the episodes themselves.
I’d say so. If nothing else, consider what a proper episode-end cliffhanger is to experience in that scenario. It’s a radically different thing.
LOST is one of my favorite shows ever. I’m jealous of people who got to watch it live and discuss at work the next day. I think a lot of people watched it just for the mysteries though and not for the characters, the ending is much better from a character arc perspective versus a question answering perspective
Hard disagree
well painful might be a bit overboard but it does get repetitive pretty fast for me personally.
Cuddy: You can’t set your patient on fire, House! House: I only need to burn him for a few minutes. It’ll make your ass look thinner. Cuddy: Fine. Just do it while the lawyer is out to lunch.
They left out lupus. Always gotta rule out lupus.
Yup, consistently entertaining for as long as it ran. hahah, what a fun show.
