Poor Health?

[Grama-Herc]

Since this thread is entitled "poor health" I need to ask some questions with explanation first.

I recently found out that I was suffering from malnutrition during the first 9 weeks of my life. The cause is not really important or an issue, but I am understandably concerned what and how much of an affect this had on the developement of my brain.

You speak of poor health. I never been really very healthy, and now that my memory is returning, lots of things are coming back to me. I was always sick with weird stuff most people don't get, at least not when they are children. As a child I had shingles, something called walking pnemonia, hepatitus ?(just found out about that one), and I always caught every bug that came even close to me. I had major abdominal surgery when I was 15, seemed like I always had tonsilitis, got some kind of bug that required the doctor to paint my throat with some kind of purple liquid. My health issues have followed me throughout my lifetime.

So, could the poor health be due to the malnutrition or the ptsd or both?????

 

[Micah]

Did you guys all have your physical symptoms start appearing around the time of your trauma? I've been dealing with PTSD for over a decade now and it is only the last year that my health has gotten bad. I'm a varsity athlete, I eat well, I usually sleep fairly well, I'm active, I should be healthy and yet I'm always sick. Since last February I have been nauseous basically all the time, I just kind of live with it now and throw up for an hour here and there usually every three to four weeks. My doctor has run countless tests and they keep coming up negative. He's stumped and so am I. I know this kind of thing can be the result of the stress of PTSD, but it seems strange to me that it would just be showing up now. Although I have been getting every cold and flu that passes by for years and years. I'm just wondering if anyone else had their physical symptoms show up so far in.

 

[naturalfirebrand]

It is frustrating to need more medication than others to have the same effect. I have asthma and anytime I get sick it goes straight to my lungs. I am currently half-way through the third antibiotic for the same continuing infection. I have hopes this one will finally get me funtioning and back working.

 

[Grama-Herc]

I again say----Stress is destroying our bodies----"WE" are all sick and suffering. Our freinds and families think we are "nuts"

 

[Tija]

Unfortunately, a lot of those blood tests that are taken by our doctors are worthless.. I have had 7 done in the last 3 years, and they don't show anything.

There could be hormonal disturbances related to the thyroid or adrenals, hormone imbalances or even hypoglycemia. All these things can mimic symptoms of ptsd, or at least, if anything, worsen them! Usually these tests can only be performed by an alternative physician or naturopath. Currently I just started to go to a naturopath to see if there is anything metabolically wrong with me, like the above. I just want to make sure there is nothing nutritionally hindering my progress out of this ptsd hell I've been living.

Tija:smile: