Distended stomach...

[Guest guest]

Still got it by the way! Comes right out from uder the ribcage, i look about 6 months gone! I`ve been looking into "Cushings" as this can cause this, GP says its IBS, it isnt as i dont have any symptoms of IBS!GrrrrCaz

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At least your GP put it down to a medical condition, mine just used to say that

I ate too much!! Happily I'm not with that particular doc any more!!

Glynis

> Still got it by the way! Comes right out from uder the ribcage, i look

> about 6 months gone! I`ve been looking into " Cushings " as this can cause

> this, GP says its IBS, it isnt as i dont have any symptoms of IBS!

> Grrrr

> Caz

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[Guest guest]

Hi there,

I also had a distended stomach – I looked full

term – I could only wear maternity clothes as my shape was so distorted –

it was absolutely awful – when I FINALLY got diagnosed and on thyroid

meds it went down – I have always marvelled that a distended stomach can

be due to a thyroid condition but it was.

Needless to say I am a bit flabby now around that

area as if I have just been pregnant.

Kind regards

Mandy

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I know that belly and, like you, I am really wondering whether Cushings is a

possibility. Mine has got so bad that reaching over the belly to tie my shoe

laces is very uncomfortable.

None of my pregnancy clothes fit any more - probably because I am actually

bigger and 2 stone heavier than I was at 9 months pregnant (last baby was 9 lb

60z). I'm now 2 stone heavier than I was on that last day of pregnacy 12 years

ago. It's showing no sign of stopping either and, rather than waste money on

clothes which will fit next week but probably not the week after, I've resorted

to wearing my clothes with the zips undone for now.

I had more bloods done yesterday and am hoping that this time they'll reflect

the reality as to what is going wrong with my body. 12 years of " normal " blood

tests (which actually are abnormal once the figures are examined

properly)haven't helped. In fact it is almost as if the very process of ordering

bloodtests exempts the GPs and specialists from actually bothering to examine

the patient sitting in front of them. They don't even bother looking at the

actual blood tests either but are guided instead by the computer only indicating

if a result is out of range on each separate blood test. They completely miss

the trends of rising or falling indicators of problems.

BTW did you see the drama about Mo Mowlem on TV last week? It showed how her

post-cancer-treatment steroids made her extremely fat fairly rapidly. If

medication can do that to a person, why can't GPs accept that rapid weightgain

and shape change isn't always due to over-eating or digestion?

Tracey

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From: redharissa <redharissa@...>Subject: Re: Distended stomach...thyroid treatment Date: Tuesday, 9 February, 2010, 9:55

Hi

I am sure that my greatly distended abdomen is due to fluid retention(ascites) as a symptom of poorly controlled hypoT having only been given levothyroxine. I find it difficult to move and breathe and suffer chest pain. When my daughter took me to A & E last week because of this the doctor there informed me that I was constipated and that my blood sugar was high.(I have diabetes). I am having an ultrasound scan tomorrow requested by me through my GP as I KNOW there is increased abdominal pressuere. At first I thought it might be fibroids but I've been reading about hypoT symptoms. How many of us are having do diagnose ourselves yet face ridicule by medics who know less than us about our particular condition?

Louise P

" why can't GPs accept that rapid weightgain and shape change isn't always due to over-eating or digestionTracey

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Because generally speaking they are quite thick Tracey which is why patients are

having to do it for ourselves.

Mo

why can't GPs accept that rapid weightgain and shape change isn't always due to

over-eating or digestion?

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> Tracey

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