Seeking Medical Advice:Diahrea/Pain/Fasciculations

[NordicPrincess]

Hi everyone,Many here have a lot of medical knowledge and I'm asking for your help.For me all the symptoms started with a very severe diahrea i Jan. After a few days I got horrible pain in hips/lower back/butt/legs..(and then fasciculations and paresthesias..) I have had a few more periodes with severe diahrea, the last one lasted for three weeks and I got really dehydrated and lost even more weight. Then I took a test to measure "calprotection in *beep*" and it came back with a value of 299. Normal is under 50. The doctor writes that this indicates inflammatory bowel disease, and that can have caused "spondyloarthritis of some kind". I have read that sondyloarthritis often means Bechterew disease but can also be other diseases. I have not MR foundings that match with Bectherew. Have you any idea about a possible inflammatory bowel disease and/or some kind of spondyloarthritis can cause symptoms like BFS? Extreme pain (specially in low back, butt, hips, legs, but also fingers), fasciculations and A LOT of paresthesias?? I get confused...The doctor recommends gastro-check (gastroscopy), uhg....

 

[christinasgirl123]

The guts have some of the biggest nerve density in our body, so an incredibly hight input of information constantly reaches your brain. So if theres a constant information strain from your digestive system to your brain, then this can cause a "breakdown of nerve filters". Too much information. This is why fibromyalgia specialists also use a diet to calm down the gut nerves, so the "bad" input to your brain diminishes and helps your body in general to calm down and reduce nerve hyperexciteability. This counts especially for parestesias. So after all, noone can tell you really what is going on within you. And we are no doctors (and neither is google by the way). But certainly, a long gut disease can cause nerve hyperexciteability just by irritating the nerve system, and totally without any other thing like bechterew etc. My moms partner has spondyloarthritis and he twitches a bit, but I guess more to his sport and the pain medication. I think it is not a coincidence that so many people in this forum have a history of IBS. But as your test shows inflammation , I would totally second the idea to do a gastro/coloskopy.

 

[NordicPrincess]

Thank you so much for anwering me Chrissi. I find your anwer interesting and I will take what you wrote with me. I'm going for hospital on Monday, but that is a neurologic post and they probably won't check my bowel etc there, that must be the next step maybe....I have fasciculations every minute, but the paresthesias are a much bigger problem to me.Have a good week end.