Help for extreme fatigue and stomach pain.

[Wheatwacked]

On 9/23/2021 at 1:50 PM, Lynn Glueck said:

Her GI doctor put her on dicyclomine to see if that helps her stomach pain. 

Unless it helped, I hope her doctor discontinued the dicyclomine. I see why knitty kitty felt like a zombie, it shuts down acetlycholine the chemical responsible for nerve cells talking to each other. In scary terms it has the same effect, albeit much milder, as nerve gas. Treatment was a success but the patient failed. Uncooked vegetables tend to slow down peristalsis. Whatever she tolerates.  Consider Dr Fuhrman's Six week plan.

Watermelon is good. A pound has 15 ounces of water and other vitamins and nutrients with the benefit of hydration. It soothes a hot belly.

Low D is a common finding in many different autoimmune, cancers, IBD, celiac, etc., most doctors won't treat unless less than 20.  Increasing her D may help her more than anything else. For the other deficiencies buy a bottle of Geritol Multivitamins and see if it helps. It's only $15, less than an office visit, but an easy way to get 100% RDA in most essentials. Later she can work on identifying specifics. Keep in mind that 100% RDA is: "Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA): average daily level of intake sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97%-98%) healthy people." For many of the vitamins and minerals, potassium, sodium, calcium for example plasma levels are tightly controlled because they perform services essential to life (BP and pulse) so they will only show abnormal plasma levels in organ failure or due to meds.

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In summary, long-term supplementation with vitamin D3 in doses ranging from 5000 to 50,000 IUs/day appears to be safe.  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30611908/ 

 

[knitty kitty]

Here are some articles about thiamine you might find applicable....

"11 Signs and Symptoms of Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Deficiency"

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/thiamine-deficiency-symptoms

And..

"Rare Presentation of Thiamine Deficiency as Gastrointestinal Syndrome"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175961/

And...

"Beriberi in a Malnourished Woman After an Extended Period of Nausea and Vomiting"

https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/altc/articles/beriberi-malnourished-woman-after-extended-period-nausea-and-vomiting

And...

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Thiamin-HealthProfessional/

Hope this helps!  Keep us posted on your daughter's progress!