bigfootme

Sleepiness has plagued me all of my life but the same as everything else, I could never get a diagnosis. My first memory of it was when the school bus driver contacted my mother because he would have to shake me awaken me to get me off of the bus in the mornings. Looking back now, I realize that it was probably due to the large breakfast that I had eaten...

A GI specialist prescribed Cholestyramine for me after having my gallbladder removed. I was having uncontrollable D so bad that if I were going to work at 3pm I could not eat a bite of food in the am at all or I would never make it to work. I couldn't eat until I got home late at night so I could be near the bathroom. I was unable to eat out at any...

Definitely difficult to learn a new job or remember much of anything with this so called "brain fog". My doctor did run a test and found that I had extremely low folate which can lead to memory problems. I have been taking folate now for a couple of months and haven't been retested but I believe that it has helped some.

For my complaints of dumping immediately after taking a bite of food, my primary care doctor did two things, gave me zelnorm, which is for constipation and told me that I was depressed, it was my nerves, and that I had IBS. He managed to get me to take paxil with no results, then zoloft which made it so much worse that I could not even eat one bite of food...