Mysterious gallbladder disease - can't digest fat for no apparent reason
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BearWithMe said:
I definitely have symptoms of pancreatitis, though. Including mild flud sequestration and permanent dehydration that can't be fixed no matter what I do.
BearWithMe said:
@random Can't quench my thirst, yes. But also other symtpoms like very dry skin, dry eyes, heat intolerance, exhaustion, sometimes confusion
Considering this, could it be that my bile is lacking water, and therefore being too thick to be passed through my awkwardly shaped / pinched bile duct?
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In the rare moments when I don't feel dehydrated, my digestion is sooooo much better. Could be due to having more saliva, too.
I can't figure out any specific trigger for the dehydration or temporary non-dehydration, though. It seems random.
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@BearWithMe when you describe yourself as dehydrated, what symptoms are you having?
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@BearWithMe Has the cause of your ailments now been confirmed to be attributed to mold toxicity? That's what you wrote on the other forum. Ever done a VCS test (online) for that?
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@16characterstwas Heat intolerance, inability to sweat, dry skin, dry eyes, sometimes painful urination, and most importantly, lack of saliva. I'm almost never swallowing when I'm not eating. Sometimes the saliva production kicks in, and I'm thinking "wtf, do I really have to do this every minute?" I'm not used to swallow saliva at all.
@crumblingcookie The cause of my ailments is not mold toxicity because my ailments started before the mold exposure. Mold was probably a contributing factor. My body was already weakened by long term starvation, and then I moved into an apartment with really extreme mold problems (over time, black mold covered almost every surface including metals).
I've had multiple health and digestive issues before moving into the moldy apartment, but I was able to digest large amounts of fat.
One possibility is that I've had some motility issue since early age, that caused poor digestion of carbohydrates. And then in my mid 20s, mold ruined my gallbladder. Or maybe it wasn't the mold, just a natural progression of my disease. Or something else entirely. I don't know. But the "Bile can serve as a reservoir for funghi" thread you sent me in March feels very relevant.
These days I feel much better overall, with the help of @user1 I'm able to eat up to 3400 kcal a day consistently. Apparently I'm gaining muscle too, which is crazy. Actually I'm feeling the best I have felt in past 25 years. But the gallbladder issue persist. Fat still cause problems.
Sorry for long comment, it is complicated
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@BearWithMe ok, of course theses symptoms cause stress, but do you remember whether you were under alot of stress when you first developed these symptoms?
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@16characterstwas I absolutely was. I still remember the exact date this started, because very significant and stressful event happened on that day. It was more than 20 years ago.
And every time I experience another big stressful event, my health gets a little worse, never to return to its previous state.
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@BearWithMe
Yeah the tension of re living something unpleasant isn't exactly conducive to digestion. Ones body literally loses some of the ability to digest. I would just try just to eat what you feel like eating, when you feel like eating it. Your appetite and ability to digest will come back, believe it or not.
I'll try and find some excerpts i remember of Ray and or Haidut discussing situations similar to yours.
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