Posted by Krumcake on May 13, 2005, at 15:58:52
Board: Psycho-Babble Alternative
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Language: EnglishI have enjoyed reading all of your entries from over the past few months, and am hoping that someone here can offer me some much needed advice. My husband is on Zoloft, Keppra, Seroquel and most recently Lamictal to address a mix of depression, bi-polar II and ADD type symptoms (the jury is still out on his exact diagnosis!?) Over the past few years, we have been though medical He## with symptoms including: Severe Right upper quadrant pain of an unidentified nature. He can barely eat, sleep function - from the pain. His food often comes through totally undigested and his has spasming in what might be considered to be the liver, small intestinal area. He has had the million dollar medical work up and to date, we know little more than we did when we started - though he is now without a Gallbladder and Appendix! Of course, his labs always come back "normal" with occasional fluctuations of liver enzymes. Nothing seems to account for this pain! He did have Lyme Disease 12 yrs ago (and what a can of worms that is). Assuming this problem is functional, and pertaining to the digestive system, I have started studying the enteric endocrine/nervous system in a desparate attempt to understand what might be going on here. One of the Doc's recently suggested that due to the complexity of the Enteric Nervous System, his Psych Meds might be suspect for the cause of this pain. Has anyone had any severe digestive disturbances of this or a similar nature as a result of various psych meds? I'll await any feed back - we are feeling very desparate and alone. Many Thanks!
poster:Krumcake
thread:497418
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