Questions for anyone

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Hello All,

I come to you with yet another problem. My FNP can't seem to figure out

what's wrong with me. She says it has nothing to do with my pancreas.

Can anyone here tell me if they have had any of these problems and if

they are related to the old pancreas.

Seems my thyroid is out of whack. So she put me on thyroid meds. I am

still WAY too sleepy, losing alot of hair, NOT losing weight despite

walking 20 miles a week and dieting beyond dieting. I can fall asleep

at the drop of a hat, as soon as I sit down. I have slept all night,

then woke up and took a nap 3 hours later for 2 hours. Stayed awake for

another hour and slept another hour. Then took another nap after that

for about 20 minutes BEFORE going to bed around 9:00 pm. There are

times I wake in the morning and am back asleep before 9:00 am. I have

almost missed going to pick my son up from school because I can't stay

awake in the afternoon. As long as I keep going I am ok. I mean, I can

barely keep walking but if I were to sit down, I would fall asleep. She

has ruled out narcolepsy. She is determined this is something

metabolic. Especially because of no weight loss despite thyroid under

control and dieting!

My lower back is aching most all the time like I am going to have a

pancreatic attack, but I don't seem to have one that needs me to go to

the hospital anyway. I am clinching my middle area most of the day

because of pain and when I lay down to sleep and release that area, it

hurts. Gee, go figure. LOL! I even dream I am hurting. I also awake

hurting in the morning, but not to the point that I can't function. I

am taking xanax and darvocet at night before bed to help with the pain

but nothing during the day if I can get away with it. My knee is

killing me too, but I think because of the walking. I WAS this tired

and had all these symptoms BEFORE I started walking so much so the

walking isn't the problem. My blood sugar is still kinda whacky but she

isn't concerned with that at all.

I just retested everything ( a & l. thyroid, glucose, chem panel) and

all tests came out fine. She now wants me to do some nuclear test for

my thyroid anti-bodies to see if that is the problem. I asked her to

also test for mono while she was at it. I don't want to skip a thing.

But as far as she can tell, I am healthy and she has no explanation why

I am so extremely exhausted. I attribute most everything to my

pancreas. She said if my thyroid antibodies were off, then I would be

having URQ pain. She asked if I was having any. I looked at her as if

she was dumb for asking that question and she caught on and said that

was a stupid question, but that was a symptom for this anti body thing.

So anyway, has anyone else gone through this? Does anyone have any help

for me? I will take any suggestions as to what to test for. I have run

out of ideas and am literally running out of energy to do anything about

it anymore. I find that even cleaning the house lightly makes me exhausted.

Thanks,

Sandy in Ca

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