January 19, 2012

Q: I gave birth to a baby girl about six months ago and have been feeling sad and have no energy. I’ve heard of postpartum depression, but could my symptoms be something else?

A: Postpartum depression, also known as PPD, affects as many as one in 10 women. but what many women don’t know is that postpartum thyroid disease is equally as common, and may actually be the underlying cause of the PPD in some women.

Even though some degree of fatigue and mood change is expected by doctors after the arrival of a baby, often both PPD and postpartum thyroid disease are written off as normal for a new mother, and not diagnosed and treated properly.

So, before your doctor diagnoses postpartum depression, you should be evaluated for postpartum thyroid disease. even among women who have never had any thyroid problems prior to pregnancy, thyroid problems after pregnancy occur in 10 percent of all new mothers.

Symptoms of postpartum thyroid problems can mimic postpartum depression, with a few critical differences.

• an underactive thyroid — postpartum hypothyroidism — may worsen the fatigue and exhaustion and may cause a woman to gain weight during the postpartum period, experience cold intolerance, constipation and dry skin.
• an overactive thyroid — postpartum hyperthyroidism — may cause rapid weight loss, rapid heart rate, anxiety, irritability and possible tremors.

For some women, postpartum thyroid problems can be temporary, lasting anywhere from several months to as long as a year. For other women, however, thyroid imbalances after birth are the beginning of a lifelong autoimmune condition, such as Hashimoto’s or Graves’ disease, that requires ongoing monitoring and treatment.

I would advise you to make an appointment with your primary care physician or obstetrician. if your doctor suspects postpartum thyroid disease, you will have various tests, including blood tests, and in some cases, ultrasound or other imaging tests, to make a proper diagnosis.

Yardlie Toussaint-Foster, DO, is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. she specializes in obstetrics and gynecology at PMC Physician Associates in East Stroudsburg, Tobyhanna and Bartonsville.

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Writer: Monica Mae on may 23 2011.

Irritable bowel syndrome or IBS is a type of disorder that can cause so much discomfort to the person who has acquired it. Though this condition is not that lethal, it can disrupt someone’s lifestyle. How it disturbs a person is due to its symptoms which can include abdominal bloating, cramping, diarrhea and constipation.

Women are the common sufferers of IBS but a few men have also acquired this condition and can begin even on ages before 35 years old. with regards to prevention, the symptoms can be suppressed by engaging on the right diet or taking the prescribed medications.

Although the real cause of IBS has not yet been discovered, experts believe that colons being sensitive to specific foods are involved as well as stress. moreover, even the immune system has been hypothesized to be one of the causative agents of irritable bowel syndrome.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome Diet

Since Irritable Bowel Syndrome is believed to be associated with how the colon reacts to foods and stress there are IBS diet developed to help those who are affected with this disorder. it is a common notion that once a diet is intended to suppress certain disorder it is not tasty or delicious. and it is for this same reason that people failed to continue with their dietary treatment. But not Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet recipes because they are made delicious and guaranteed to control IBS.

The Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet includes drinks, appetizers, side dishes, salads, main dishes, desserts and many more. there are also recipes that include traditional and even international recipes to suit various taste. If there are recipes or foods allowed or advised for IBS patients there are also foods that needs to be avoided. and some of them include fatty foods like America’s favorite French fries, some milk products like cheese and ice cream, alcohol, coffee, sodas and chocolate. these types of foods often worsen IBS and should be avoided at all cost.

It is also important for a person with IBS to take note of the food he or she is eating in order to determine if it should be included in the diet plan.

The best diet to control IBS is to eat foods that are rich in fiber since it soften stool making it easier to bowel out. there are lots of food sources where one can get fibers such as bread, fruits, bread, beans, cereal and vegetables. However, make sure to slowly include fiber in your diet just to help your body to get accustomed to it and to prevent gas pain that may induce IBS symptoms.

Fiber pills are also available for the person with IBS to blend with a special kind of powder to produce a high-fiber mixture.

The Quantity of Food Intake Matters

It is also important to implement small frequent feedings when you are suffering from irritable bowel syndrome. Large consumption of foods triggers cramps and diarrhea if you have IBS. Finally if IBS symptoms persist even though you have followed the right steps in preventing the symptoms from developing, it is highly advised to consult this matter to the physician as soon as possible.

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1. Samantha says:

   Constipation is one of the main symptoms of IBS. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is difficult to diagnose and can be very frustrating for the person suffering from IBS symptoms.

   In your case, the pain you are experiencing is often associated with a change in the consistency of bowel movements. some people with IBS have both constipation and diarrhea. There are several possibilities of the cause though, so if it is persistent, this is something that should definitely be looked at by your doctor.

   Please let your doctor know if you have any of the following symptoms which are often associated with IBS.

   Some symptoms of IBS include:.Regular ConstipationBloating and extra gas or windFrequent DiarrheaAcid RefluxFood Intolerance challengesTiredness throughout the dayLack of energyBad skinBackacheHeadacheDepression or AnxietyAbnormal weight gainLack of concentration

   If you have already been diagnosed with IBS, or experience prolonged bloating diarrhea or constipation, there are some proven methods to cure these symptoms and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. here is a great article and video by IBS Expert – Kim Buchanan:budurl.com/IBScure

My best friend has been in and out of the hospital for several years now. She is experiencing several symptoms that doctors treat then send her home with lots of meds. She had her gallbladder removed a few months ago but are still having "attacks." These are her symptoms: dark/ foul smelling urine, fatigue, nausea/vomitting, irratability, diarrhea and constipation, sweating at night, weakness and dizziness, frequent headaches, changes in the pain she has, sugar problems. Her pain is very severe. It suddenly comes or builds up gradually. It's centered in the upper middle or upper left of her abdomen and the pain radiates to her back. The pain worses after eating, pain lasts for several days and it is worse when laying flat on her back. Please, I need answers!

She could have a gallstone lodged in a duct that was not detected when she had her gallbladder.

I'm really worried about my health. somebody help

Blood in or on the stool (either bright red or very dark in colour)

A persistent change in normal bowel habits such as diarrhea, constipation or both, for no apparent reason

Frequent or constant cramps if they last for more than a few days

Stools that are narrower than usual

General stomach discomfort (bloating, fullness and/or cramps)

Frequent gas pains

A strong and continuing need to move your bowels, but with little stool

A feeling that the bowel does not empty completely

Weight loss for no known reason

Constant tiredness

Bowel cancer was misdiagnosed as constipation by GPs at Sale practice

11:20am Thursday 6th January 2011

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A PENSIONER from Sale died just days after an operation to remove a massive tumour from her colon which had gone undiagnosed for months, an inquest heard.

Roselie Smith, 71, first went to Firsway Medical Centre in November 2008 complaining of constipation and lower abdomen pain, and was prescribed laxatives.

the court heard around a year later Ms Smith, who lived on the town’s Granary Way, presented again at the surgery with similar symptoms, then in February 2010, and was then seen a further four times in March by doctors at the practice as her symptoms became increasingly worse.

she was eventually admitted as an emergency on March 31 where a CT scan at Trafford General identified a large obstruction in her colon.

But after surgery in may surgeons discovered she had advanced bowel cancer which had spread in to her stomach and was inoperable. she died on may 19 of multi-organ failure.

“I think it had been present for a while,” said consultant surgeon Felix Mazarelo, who performed the operation on Ms Smith, and who told told the court he’d found a “mass” of cancer cells near her pancreas and spleen.

the inquest also heard evidence from Firsway GP, Dr Michael Holloway, who explained how the practice had been amalgamated with two others in 2008 to create a single super surgery, and that Ms Smith had not seen the same doctor twice. “It is a weakness of bigger groups,” he said. “In practice there’s a continuity problem that smaller surgeries don’t suffer with as much.”

But he also said Ms Smith’s symptoms had not been consistent with bowel cancer, and said consitipation, which was what she had been diagnosed with, was “very common” amongst the elderley.

“With old people we see this a lot,” he said. “And with large bowel cancers it’s unusual for them to present with only constipation. There’s usually rectal bleeding, loose stools and a change of bowel habits. she had none of these things.”

Verdict: Natural causes.

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Looking for additional symptoms of Bladder cancer. maybe constipation, or maybe think your hip is out.

By tgon1563 on January 3, 2011 under Herpes Information Herpes Symptoms

When ever the man or women could be been infected with genital herpes, signs or symptoms do not commence right off. In this gestation interval, everyone will certainly look and feel completely ok. Nevertheless, approximately a couple weeks upon becoming infected, characteristics and symptoms could begin. Once discomforts do take place, it is known as termed an outbreak a herpes outbreak.few people that has herpes will have a first episode. the truth is, it’s quite common for people to get absolutely no signs and symptoms with the initial infection, nevertheless they can continue to spread herpes…

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Early Genital Herpes Virus Symptoms

An individual that may have initial indicators of herpes could have a variety of symptoms. some initial symptoms range from:

* An itching as well as stinging sensation in your genital as well as rectal region* Flu virus-like signs and symptoms, among them throwing up and fever, head ache, an over-all unwell sense along with muscle / tendon pains* Puffy glands* Constipation or issues peeing.

For some folks, all these signs and symptoms is often minor. for some, initial signs and symptoms will often be pretty extreme.it is more often than not helpful to look at genital herpes pictures just before consulting a physician as frequently you may learn that the warning signs are merely a allergy of some kind.Question by BSTH: how do you live with the stigma placed upon you by that of a STD???? long question but please help!!?A few weeks ago i had un protected sex with a girl that was rumoured to be infected with herpes (i found after, not before sex) last ngiht i noticed two tiny red bumpsunder my foreskin and on the end of my penis and this morning i have a total of 4 bumps spread out over the head of my penis, it doesnt hurt to pee, ejeculate or nething like that. just uncomfortble when touched.

Ive acepted the fact that i might have herpes and i was just wondering how those who already are effected deal with the fact that they have sexually transmitted disease? not the pain issue, the label of having an std?

If what ive got is herpes, im certainly dissapointed it isnt living up to such the bad std its been labaled as lol. a few painful lumps for a few days 4 times a year? the flu is worse than that.

Can i have sex again without spreading? (yes, ill use a condom) Do i have to get anti-viral treatment? what about natural treatment? (vitamins that improve immune, releive stress etc)

C’mon YA, help meI have a few tiny red bumps under my foreskin and around the tip of my head. Only painful when touched and sorta feels like there is a grain of sand or something under my skin. I woke up a few days later after sex with a blocked nose and my neck was hurting…

ALSO, can herpes spread to my groin if the infected areas of my penis touch that skin???

any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.Any other info on herpes would be greatly appreciated (facts, other symptons etc)im 16 going on 17, the girl i had sex with just turned 16 so im not worried about hiv/aids…

and the pictures of ‘herpes’ on google images look nothing like what i have at the moment. I’m only going on what the symptons are.

Best answer:

Answer by SwEeT NoThInGsSorry but it does sound like herpes and more people than you can imagine have it and I think that as time goes it actually gets more accepted. the pictures you see are the Internet are not an accurate description of what herpes really is a lot of times people get one outbreak and never have it again. you can spread herpes to other parts of your body if you touch the sore and then touch other parts including hands, thighs, mouth, and eyes so wash your hands after touching because soap and warm water kill the herpes virus. some symptoms are obviously sores, tiredness, flu like symptoms, muscle aches, but it varies for everybody. the bumps usually appear 2-21 days after initial contact. just go to your doctor while you have the sores it is easier for them to test and then they will give you a prescription. Make sure that you take vitamins and stay healthy because being sick and stress can cause an outbreak. you can have sex safely without spreading herpes with a condom but never have sex while you have sores. my boyfriend has genital herpes and for some miracle I didn’t get it but I don’t think of him any differently.

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Genital herpes regarded most commonly encountered sexually transmitted disease because the majority of persons afflicted do not know they are really carriers for this herpes virus. There’s a limited portion of these that are less than fortunate enough to suffer a dreaded early hsv virus outbreak. Checking out herpes pictures, might help you actually to realize precisely what this particular disorder is actually.

Your indicators to be wary of so you are aware if you are suffering from an initial herpes outbreak can be feeling sick and fever as well as a reddening in the place that had physical contact with herpes. There’s two strains for this virus which will produce hsv: the herpes virus (HSV) 1 and 2. HSV 1 is linked to oral herpes nonetheless they may also trigger genital herpes through oral-genital contact. however, the normal root cause for genital herpes is usually the herpes simplex virus 2. if you start to feel like your own body temprature is increasing higher than normal and there’s reddening in the genitals and surrounding areas, you best confer with your health practitioner. the primary outbreak can happen inside of a couple weeks following transmission. Herpes Pictures can assist you to determine earlier warning signs, so be sure to explore herpes-connected sites on the internet.

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• Q&a: can you help me figure out if I have herpes? please this is serious and very important!?
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I've been having a lot of well embarrassing problems with constipation for the past two months, and after visiting a GI doctor today she wants to test me for Celiac disease, does anyone know the symptoms?

Constipation, tiredness, stomach pain, bloating, and gas.

It took me half a year before my doctor could nail down Celiac. OMG IT HURT. I was having the worst stomachaches you could imagine.

God Bless!

Google is your friend.
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most common symptoms are abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, weight loss.

Check out gluten-free-for-life.com to learn more.

My son has celiac and we have made this web site as an informational tool for other celiacs or potential celiacs. Its his story about his symptoms, diagnosis and how he eats gluten free.

The stomach ache people look with some envy at the headache people.

“for some reason people respect headaches,” said Carlo Di Lorenzo, a leading pediatric gastroenterologist and a professor of clinical pediatrics at Ohio State. “I’ve never seen a parent or a pediatrician tell a child complaining of a headache,’ ‘you don’t have a headache — it’s not real.’ Bellyache is just as real as headache.”

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Indeed it is, and recurrent abdominal pain in children is common, frustrating and often hard to explain.

Consider a girl who came to the clinic for her 10-year physical exam. she gets bellyaches and had a bad one that week, but her stomach wasn’t hurting right at the moment.

She had been treated for constipation, tested for celiac disease and other problems and every blood and stool test over the two years since the pain began was completely normal. one night she went to the emergency room because the bellyache was so bad — and her abdominal X-rays were normal as well.

The diagnostic term for this common and perplexing condition is “functional abdominal pain”: recurrent stomachaches, as the American Academy of Pediatrics put it in 2005, with no “anatomic, metabolic, infectious, inflammatory or neoplastic disorder” to explain them.

When I was a resident, we often smirked when we spoke of functional abdominal pain, treating it as a code for a troublesome patient, dubious symptoms or an anxious family. However, recent research suggests we were too biomedically narrow in our thinking.

Scientists are coming to understand that abdominal pain is transmitted by a specialized nervous system that may be hypersensitive or hyperactive in some children. Studies in which researchers inflated balloons in children’s intestines suggested that those with functional abdominal pain might be unusually sensitive to any distension on the inside.

“We think in terms of a biological-psychological-social model” for pain, said Joel R. Rosh, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, N.J., and an associate professor of pediatrics at new Jersey Medical School. “when a child says, ‘My belly hurts,’ what drives me crazy is people say, ’no it, doesn’t.’

”why would people say that? You’re feeling something! How much is biological, how much is psychological, how much is social?“

The improved understanding of how such pain develops — and can be treated — has changed the ways that pediatricians look at the problem, but it hasn’t necessarily made it easier to take proper care of these children, to worry over them enough but not too much and, above all, to make them feel better.

The problem may start with some initial insult, an infection or inflammation that may affect pain pathways in the child — and may also set up psychological patterns and anxieties in the child and response patterns and anxieties in the parent.

Then the child continues to be extremely aware of sensations coming from the gastrointestinal tract, even when the initial illness is over. the challenge to the parents — passed on to the pediatrician — is how diligently these pains should be investigated, how many tests a child should be subjected to, how much money should be spent.

“one thing fairly well established is that as soon as you make a referral to a subspecialist, cost increases by fivefold,” Dr. Di Lorenzo said. “We’re going to tend to do a lot more tests.” the more anxious the parent, he said, the more tests may be done for reassurance.

With the 10-year-old girl, I was trying hard not to refer her to a subspecialist. she was growing well and had none of the red flags that signal a need for a medical work-up.

We suggested that she learn techniques to cope with her abdominal pain and maybe see a counsellor to talk about anxiety. Her mother thought we meant the pain was imaginary.

“the vast majority of data suggest that what helps the children is working with the brain more than working with the gut,” Dr. Di Lorenzo said. “Hypnosis is clearly more effective than medication.”

And the medications that do work are often those that work on the enteric nervous system (which uses serotonin as a neurotransmitter), so low doses of antidepressants are sometimes helpful with functional abdominal pain.

Miranda A.L. van Tilburg, a psychologist who is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, was the lead author of a study published a year ago in Pediatrics which showed good effects from a treatment called guided imagery.

“We would give them therapeutic suggestions,” van Tilburg said, “like imagining something in your hand that melts in your hand like butter and then you put it in your tummy and it makes it stronger, or imagine drinking your favourite drink and again the inside of your tummy is coated with this special layer.” the children were sent home with CDs and instructions to practise the imagery regularly as a prevention strategy.

Our patient said she didn’t want to see any more doctors. she didn’t want any more blood tests, and she didn’t want tests she had heard about that involved tubes. Her mother didn’t really want those tests either, since as she said, they never seemed to find anything wrong. Neither was enthusiastic about seeing a counsellor, but they finally agreed.

It’s an appropriate strategy. “It’s very disempowering to have this alien living in your belly,” Dr. Rosh said. “How about if I learn that my belly doesn’t have to run my life?”

And how do you help doctors, parents and children get past the idea that functional abdominal pain is not “real,” that a child doubled up with pain is faking it, that it’s all in his head?

“if it was all in his head, he’d have a headache,” Dr. Rosh said. “Clearly there’s something happening in his belly.”

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