swelling in the whole body

i have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and something like lymphedema,,,no real treatment but water pills everyday and stockings..veryvery tight ones 40-50

i have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and something like lymphedema,,,no real treatment but water pills everyday and stockings..veryvery tight ones 40-50

these r the symptoms of hypothyroid

just to let you know, I too have had this for 3 years now. Been through the ringer. The only thing that has helped me was Amoxicillin. I was put on it for 2 1/2 months and it really helped. I have been on it a few times since and everytime I lose weight and feel much better. The trick is finding someone to put you on it. I had stept for 3 months. I really feel like this is somekind of virus that they don't knwo about. Hope that info helps someone. I know that I look all the time for help.

u ppl should chk out ur daily routine may this reason of this is swelling is deficency of b.complex which is very common these days or may be protein deficency chk out tk healthy diet

hello, i am only 19 years old. I have the same problem a 25 kg to 30 kg swelling, it will remain for for 6 to 9 months at a time. It is not weight because I have always been extremely sport. It will get so bad that I can no longer walk properly, with the pain from the swelling in my legs and when it reaches it worst point i can no longer eat with chronic pain in my stomach. Then all of a sudden for no reason I will just to lose it all and return back down to my normal figure and the process will repeat itself constantly. I know it is not weight because the swelling is so rapid and the unswelling as i call it, is also too rapid, it will happen within two weeks, and no amount of exercise can prevent it. It is driving me crazy because doctors have found nothing. I know it is edema ( water retention) but all my bloods come back normal and ironically the doctors have told me to exercise and eat healthily, which has basically been my lifestyle since the age of 6 because I have danced and played basketball and swam. The swelling gets so severe that it causes my stomach lining to start breaking down my acid production. I think that it must be hormones but cannot understand why it stays for so long and the suddenly disappears. I am terrified of it happening again because I go from a size 4 to a size 14 to 16 and hate it.

hi, i am so sorry to hear of your problem. but i hope that can make a suggestion, now you are your normal weight, could you write down all that you eat and drink, including something as simple as what margarine you use, you could be the angel that could give the answer to all of us. god bless.

hi, my diet is very very simple, chicken, coffee, milk, fish, prawns, muscles, salad, vegetables and fruit. i do not use any butter or margarine. i do not eat any olive oil, i eat just dairy milk chocolate, i have a lot of food allergies so i stick to simple organic foods and no packet or processed foods like anything packaged except for dairy milk chocolate. I do not eat NO SALT EVER, so it cannot be due to salt retention. I think mine is edema, caused by hormones, or maybe a liver or heart problem. I am going to get more tests done but i have had them done so many times, and everything comes back normal, once again my weight is dropping continuously, dropped another 2 sizes in two weeks but it can all go back up in no time. I noticed before it happened when I had no period because of my implant, and now I have a normal period. You should check out the symptoms for hyperthyroidism. It says you lose weight really fast which happens to me all the time, and it also causes generalized edema. I am tired of the doctors thinking that I am ANOREXIC AND THEN OBESE, they tell me to eat more when i am extremely thin and then when I am at a size 14 they tell me to stop eating so much and exercise which is ironic, because when i have edema i cannot eat or walk and when i am very thin i eat a lot because i have a fast metabolism and i am not gaining weight because it will remain the same for 9 months and then blow up 25 kg and i will remain like that for another 9 months. I am currently taking iron which has greatly helped and I know CAFFEINE is bad BUT I HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT WHEN I DRINK COFFEE it is what is keeping my edema at bay. When I was 25 kg heavier i was not drinking any coffee but AS SOON AS I STARTED DRINKING COFFEE my weight dropped within 2 to 3 weeks. Any woman taking any hormone supplements, i believe that it is causing this swelling, but I will get my heart liver and kidney tested when I go home as well as diabetes.

Hi, I recently found out my vitamin D and B12 was extremely low, now taking 50,000 of D, and 2500 of vitamin b 12 and swelling is slowly going down. Could have this been my problem?

Hi reading these post are helpful, I thought I was crazy.
I too have all these problems, I was thin and then all of a suden I was gaining weight for no reason and I gained over 200 ilbs in 3 years, I am not eating and my legs feet hands face neck and esp stomachis always sweelin, and I am in so much pain as well as a pian on my right side and I feel this bump when I lye on my left side theres this large bump on my bottom of my right side of my stomach and it urts so much.
I have been to so many doctors and they say I need to comeout of the closet and addmitt that all I do is eat!
That is so hurtful, if I was eating I say so. to stop this p[ain and weight.
I to buy a piece of clothing and a week later it doesnt fit any more whats wrong!
People were not crazy we need help.
They found a nodule in my thyroid and did nothing y sugar is high and I never had anything wrong before, I was always healthy!~
How can you get the doctor to listen and not think that a person is going there cause maybe they want attention, I dont need that kind of attention..
I have been told I have high cortosol but did nothing boarder line cushing syndrome, als PCOS but no one does anything,, wow we are all in the same boat thanks for telling your story to I feel better knowing that this is happening to someone else too, I am sorry you are all going through this too, but its nice to know thatsomeone else is out there.
Please get back hopfully we can get an answer. Thanks Cynthia

Its me again,trustume, I wanted to add this as well. I was also told that im a anemic very low, where I need blood and i have no vit D and oter levals are very low, I also have fatty liver cause I gained so much weiht, I havenever drank to much or I never did drugs.
But yet my liver is messed up and they do nothing about that either, I had a posion called Helicobacter pylori and I had to take alot of pills for weeks, but I never have any answers why this all happened, how it was caused or anything Please is there a doctor out there that can tell me who I should see, or anyone out there that can help me I need help please

How old are you?

Well, it is year 2013 May, 20 My body is swelling my ankles, legs, the way I use to look compared to now is highly cautioned, and scary. I think my face too. Because, my lips are getting big. I have a good diet however, it is not the best.

I would goto a doctor but, I am about to enroll register in a P.h.D program of nutrition because, I do not trust other doctor's. for reasons of my daughter they said they had no cure for renal kidney cyst and when I did research I found a guranteed herb. And, guess what it works.

But, the doctor said their was nothing for that. haha. I'm smarter of course. I feel it has a lot to do with me being around certain people so that means I need to become more independant, and live far away as I can before I get killed and it looks like a food allergie when it wasn't. anyway that's that.

Hi everyone. I have this crazy swelling,too.I had breast cancer a few years ago.I has a tram-flap surgery,they removed abdominal muscles, skin and fatty tissue to form breasts bc I had a bi-lateral mastectomy. I had two infections , Mersa and VRE, and they did teo debribings of tge infected tissue of my stomach.It took nine months to heal and then I had a hysterectomy. I have a mesh lining in my stomach where the abdominal muscles used to be and it has given way twice and had to be totally repaired. I ended up with severe periphial neuropathy from chemo and have so much trouble walking.I am also severely vitamin D deficient. I end up feeling like I pulled my stomach tissue if I lift even a couple of pounds. Then it seems I begin to swell up in my abdomen and it winds up with in hours, swelling in my arms,legs,face,necks and it is painful.It seems to last for anywhere from a day to a week. Sometimes I can not wear my clothes one day and then the next thing I know, I am back to normal. Doctors look at me as if I am crazy.I can not live like this.I ferl like I can not eat and whenI swell I crave sugar.I am alwsys constantly thirsty.I drink tobs of water but this seemsvto have no bearing on my swelling up.I have no estrogen in my body bc my cancer feeds off of it.I once had a B12 shot and itnreally helped with my feeling like I had a normal appetite and I did not crave sugar. Also, it helped with my neuropathy. Can anyone help me.The inability to walk most of the time bc of the pain is bad enough but the swelling is unbearable then,I lose my balance alot then.Can anyone relate? Thanks for listening.

waht is the better result for this disease......?