So I am literally feeling at the end of my tether now. For many years I have had various symptoms. A lot of them started after being on the contraceptive injection which beforehand I was a very active healthy person, now I feel completely the opposite.
I gained around 4 Stone whilst on the injection, I came off around 6 years ago and have struggled to lose the weight since, I have fluctuated so much, I had a baby 9 months ago and now also have all my baby weight on top of that. I developed a very rounded flushed moon like face which also fluctuates. My cravings for sugar and salty things are horrendous, I get the worst hunger pains, like I am constantly craving food, even after a meal I can be craving straight away yet when I start to eat a meal I instantly feel full. I have slim arms and legs yet a huge belly which when it bloats becomes so enlarged and painful. I struggle with things like buying jeans, I wear maternity jeans as my belly is big but then the legs are always really baggy.
I have the worst mood swings, I am currently on GnRh injections to stop my ovaries as the doctors have thought it is my periods causing my severe mood swings but I am still the same. I literally feel on a vicious cycle of having blood tests for things like my thyroid and they come back normal and then its put aside and the doctors do not want to know, I just get told I need to lose weight which is the reason I am there, I can't. I struggle so much with is, I am aching all over, I have reduced my calories and I try to exercise but still nothing. I had an ultrasound scan as I always have pain in my upper right side in my back mainly, I got told I had a fatty liver and my blood work for my liver came back as abnormal but expected.
The doctor recently had a blood test done for cortisol which came back borderline, I have had a 24hr urine test done which I took back to the hospital the Friday just gone, I am not sure how long they take to come back but I am so paranoid that it will all be ok and then the doctors will not want to test any more and I will be back in the same boat as I started in. I have heard cortisol tests cannot just be done the once they need doing 4 or 5 times for accurate results as the cortisol can change, not sure how true this is. But I do not feel my doctor will do this, I just think if this test comes back fine that will be it.
Has anyone else had a real struggle with a diagnosis?