Pain Joints
Pain Joints
Chronic Joint pain and old age go hand in hand. You begin to feel stiff and every twist of the wrist, knee or even walking can become painful. The tissue between your joints that once provided cushion and support begin to erode due to normal wear and tear or an age related disease. Joint pain at night and into morning affects millions of people across the country.
In some instances, without notice, you can awake with sharp pains in your big toe, finger or other joints. This could be the onset of gout, which is a form of arthritis. Once pain sets in, it could last for several days and then disappear, and then re-occur at any time in the future.
Over 2 million people in the U.S. suffer from affects of gout. Men over 30 are more likely to suffer than women. High blood pressure and obesity may also increase the chances of gout as well. Women may begin to show signs after they have gone through menopause.
Gout is described as a disease that is caused by crystal deposits causing inflammation in joints like the wrist, knee and ankle areas. Once these deposits begin to affect joint tissue, inflammation can occur almost overnight and usually start with the big toe.
Diet and exercise is recommended to help prevent this age related disease. Working the body under a health and wellness program can assist in keeping joints flexible and stronger.
In summary, A healthy lifestyle and diet could be a major factor in reducing the risk of nightly chronic joint pain. Exercise is also a factor in strengthening your joints and muscles, reducing high blood pressure to combat age related diseases like gout. Low impact exercise can be used in the beginning, and as your joints become more limber and stronger, higher impact exercise may be more suitable..
Liver count doubled in 2 years,body pains,nauseaous,pain in joints,stomach pain,can’t sleep. What can be wrong?
I’m 36 years old woman. My liver count doubled in the last 2 years. They’ve done all kinds of blood tests. I gained about 40 kg in less than 2 years. I have headaches, stomach pains, feel nauseous have pains all over my body and don’t sleep very well. What can I do?
I would suggest that you be referred to a gastroenterologist or hepatologist.
If this weight gain is fluid building up inside your abdominal area, they could remove this fluid by a procedure known as paracentesis. In liver disease, the liver isn’t able to make a protein efficiently, known as Albumin…which would normally hold the fluid inside a person vessels, but it now leaks out and collects there. There is also a condition, known as Encephalopathy, where the body isn’t able to convert a protein by product, known as ammonia, into urea for the body to dispose of…it stays in the blood and goes pass the blood brain barrier and into the brain. It can cause a patient to become easily confused, disoriented, and also have sleep pattern changes. Patients who have liver disease, depending on the cause, can feel extremely tired and have flu like symptoms. If they are placed on steriods to help with inflammation in the body, they can very easily develop osteopenia.
You don’t mention any other testing besides blood work. If you have a ultrasound or Ct scan, it would show if your liver is enlarged in size which is caused by the liver cells becoming damaged and the immune system of the body responding to this.
There are many causes of liver cell damage…see if any of these may apply to you: alcohol consumption, medication toxification, chemical exposure, viral infections like Hepatitis A-B-C, biliary obstruction/malformation/infection, hereditary disease, metabolic disorders, parasite infections, cardiac/vascular problems, fatty liver disease, mushroom poisoning, tumors/growths/cysts/cancer and other things.
There are different blood tests, the doctors do, to see if there might be a liver problem. The liver enzymes would show if the cells maybe damaged, the liver function tests would show if the cells are able to do all the functions, the liver as a whole does, to keep the body well. The liver viral tests would show if there is a virus that is using your liver cells to replicate itself and others, also. However, in some patients, a liver problem doesn’t show up on the blood tests, even though they are far advanced in the disease (they don’t know why this takes place, but it does).
I truly believe I would get a second opinion in your case. Sometimes what one doctor may miss, another would see right away. However, it is best to be seen by one of the professionals, that I mentioned above, as they are more advanced in the knowledge than a primary care physician may be.
This is just a suggestion…without your medical background and seeing tests…we cannot possibly know what may be happening. I’m going on, you saying that your liver counts have doubled. I hope this is of some help to you. I would also suggest that your thyroid function be checked, also.
The very best test to check the liver, is a liver biopsy…cause they are looking directly at the liver tissue, not just films of it.
Best wishes to you…I hope they find out what is happening and can treat you soon.
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