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  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
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    I would think a better hail mary would be to get your information in front of current students who will be tomorrow's medical specialists. Let their youth, drive, and ego work in your favor. Nothing much may come of it but sometimes even several bad idea might lead to one good one. There are some pretty smart people here but it wouldn't even be easy to conclusively determine someone has the flu over a message board with a few paragraphs of information.
  • john_not_typical
    john_not_typical Posts: 44 Member
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    Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »
    Hope you get it figured out!

    Yeah, diuretics for breathing!! I remember, I couldn't walk from bed to toilet without being short of breath and could only lay on my left side to breathe while lying down.

    It sucked going from feeling young and strong, thin and fit, to being labeled morbidly obese and bed ridden.

    This is one reason, I hate it when people say things like they have no sympathy for obese people or that all obese people are to blame for their own problems from over-eating and being lazy.

    Sorry, no magical answers here, just somewhat similar circumstances, but different conditions.


    Thanks for the understanding. It sounds like we have almost the same story except I am in my 40's.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,952 Member
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    NovusDies wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    john_not_typical wrote: »
    Until a few years ago, I was generally a healthy weight. I was an athlete in high school and (division 3) college. I started gaining weight at an alarming pace and noticed I didn't have the same level of fitness I enjoyed before. My doctor and I (I have a graduate degree in biomedical engineering) kind of thought I was just slacking off and needed to get back on track. I went from 200 to 300 lbs in 4 years.

    One day I was feeling very poorly and ended up in the hospital. After four days of poking and prodding, turns out I have a serious heart condition that usually kills people before they graduate high school, but I made it this far. I have significant issues with my liver and my thyroid due to my heart not moving enough blood through my body, but both of them have generally been addressed well enough that they should not be an issue with my weight.

    (Okay, so my endocrinologist is less than convinced, but thinks I should be able to lose weight if that's really what I want to focus on.)

    My doctors are real doctors that work at some of the best hospitals and medical schools in the country. They are qualified to solve my issues, but can't.

    I vomit quite frequently, like 5 to 6 days a week. All my doctors, principally my gastroenterologist are focused on finding out why. Problem is, due to my heart condition, he's terrified to touch me. The problem is that I keep gaining weight.

    I have been imaged so much that the only places that haven't been touched by either an MRI or X-Ray CT scan are my arms and legs. As a guy that spent his entire time in grad school doing research involving imaging, I can't see anything wrong with me.

    Sometimes I think I'm making all this up. My doctors assure me this is not the case.

    I only eat 1.5 meals a day at most, but I've gained over 4 pounds in two days after eating nearly nothing and vomiting it up right away.

    I'm not expecting miracles, but I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation. I'm out of ideas. My doctors are out of ideas. Anybody have any?

    Thanks.

    I can't help other than to say that to the bolded it is impossible to gain 4 pounds of fat eating and vomiting in the way you described. You can't gain fat without enough calories to create it and 4 pounds would require a surplus of 14000 calories over the 2 days. I would say it has to be mostly water weight but I am uncomfortable commenting on your situation because I lack the expertise.

    @NovusDies was it you on another thread (today?) who said some time back you gained a crazy amount of water weight due to a medical issue?

    I am not sure mine is a medical issue. My doctor seems to think it is about the massive weight loss. However, I have experienced on 2 occasions a 15+ pound water gain while eating maintenance for 4+ days. One was a diet break over Thanksgiving and the other was a vacation.

    Thanks. Turns out it wasn't your post I was thinking of, but Emma's.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
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    kshama2001 wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    john_not_typical wrote: »
    Until a few years ago, I was generally a healthy weight. I was an athlete in high school and (division 3) college. I started gaining weight at an alarming pace and noticed I didn't have the same level of fitness I enjoyed before. My doctor and I (I have a graduate degree in biomedical engineering) kind of thought I was just slacking off and needed to get back on track. I went from 200 to 300 lbs in 4 years.

    One day I was feeling very poorly and ended up in the hospital. After four days of poking and prodding, turns out I have a serious heart condition that usually kills people before they graduate high school, but I made it this far. I have significant issues with my liver and my thyroid due to my heart not moving enough blood through my body, but both of them have generally been addressed well enough that they should not be an issue with my weight.

    (Okay, so my endocrinologist is less than convinced, but thinks I should be able to lose weight if that's really what I want to focus on.)

    My doctors are real doctors that work at some of the best hospitals and medical schools in the country. They are qualified to solve my issues, but can't.

    I vomit quite frequently, like 5 to 6 days a week. All my doctors, principally my gastroenterologist are focused on finding out why. Problem is, due to my heart condition, he's terrified to touch me. The problem is that I keep gaining weight.

    I have been imaged so much that the only places that haven't been touched by either an MRI or X-Ray CT scan are my arms and legs. As a guy that spent his entire time in grad school doing research involving imaging, I can't see anything wrong with me.

    Sometimes I think I'm making all this up. My doctors assure me this is not the case.

    I only eat 1.5 meals a day at most, but I've gained over 4 pounds in two days after eating nearly nothing and vomiting it up right away.

    I'm not expecting miracles, but I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation. I'm out of ideas. My doctors are out of ideas. Anybody have any?

    Thanks.

    I can't help other than to say that to the bolded it is impossible to gain 4 pounds of fat eating and vomiting in the way you described. You can't gain fat without enough calories to create it and 4 pounds would require a surplus of 14000 calories over the 2 days. I would say it has to be mostly water weight but I am uncomfortable commenting on your situation because I lack the expertise.

    @NovusDies was it you on another thread (today?) who said some time back you gained a crazy amount of water weight due to a medical issue?

    I am not sure mine is a medical issue. My doctor seems to think it is about the massive weight loss. However, I have experienced on 2 occasions a 15+ pound water gain while eating maintenance for 4+ days. One was a diet break over Thanksgiving and the other was a vacation.

    Thanks. Turns out it wasn't your post I was thinking of, but Emma's.

    I knew it was too good to be true for you to be thinking of me. :disappointed:

    You probably read my odd water ballooning in an older thread and connected it incorrectly.

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