Hey.. yes another sypmtom im having lol..

This one is one of the new ones that came along with reduced perspiration, poorly formed stool, muscle twitching, dry mouth.

Pretty much every morning when I wake up and pee, its like pretty dark/concentrated, like a rust/tea color. I know when you wake up its more concentrated cuz your body hasnt peed in like 8 hours. Yet this seems abnormal (especially given the other symptoms).. I also had foamy pee for a few weeks..

Some of my other symptoms seem to have improved slighlty.. my mouth is not as dry as it was.. and I can sweat a little bit when I exercise intensely.. I still have muscle twitching going on, but its maybe not quite as bad as it was..

MY fear is that theres something going on with my kidneys/liver/gallbladder, which is messing up my digestion/toxin elimination hence the poorly formed stools, muscle twitching.. I saw my general practice doc who ran a bunch of tests and most of them were pretty normal but there were a couple values just slightly out of the "normal" range. She suggested I see a gastroenterologist. However the guy she recommended, my father had a bad experience with. Basically he went to have a routine colonoscopy.. the doctor said he was fine/no problems. 3 months later my dad comes down with diverticulitis infection.. loses tons of weight, gets really sick and is just now gradually recovering.. Turns out the doctor had seen diverticuli in his colon and just didnt mention it?!!? wtf.. maybe if he had said something my dad could have taken precautions and avoided the infection.

So needless to say I dont want to go see that guy. Im consulting with a naturopath from san diego who seems like he knows what hes doing. Im just trying to decide if I should let the naturopath handle this, or if im being foolish and not taking this issue seriously enough/need to get looked at by a gastro.

The thing is, I dont have any pain/nausea/poor appetite/fatigue so it makes me feel its not too serious.. but maybe im wrong.

The newer symptoms i started experiencing 2 months ago;
Rust colored pee (first pee of day)
Occasional foamy pee
Poorly formed stools OR hard pellet like stool
Gas / Burping
Muscle twitches (occasional, not severe)
Not happening now, but I had some achey feelings in my liver one night, and some achey/pain in my chest

These new symptoms started after a few weeks of high stress, some chest x rays, and a few allergic reactions possibly to food (redness/hot/swelling in neck/arms/knees)

I certainly would trust a naturopath. Go and see what he has to say.
I will say that a course of mms might be quite helpful... but I guess I've told you that before.

I just today got a testimonial on healtsalon about a woman who was scheduled for a liver transplant. She did mms instead. Her liver is quite well now. Her disease is gone.

People need to learn that many many of these strange medical problems are caused by a microbe that doctors can not find. MMS is the treatment.

You should get your liver enzymes checked if it has not been done already as well as your kidney function. I assume this was done but nothing unusual noted. I have now seen mms return abnormal liver function tests to normal quite a few times.

Yous seriously need some magnesium supplementation but talk to the naturopath. Magnesium oil is good to apply topically and espom salt baths too. Many mag. supplements are combined with calcium and it is too much calcium.

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oh, and the diverticuli that your dad had, there is hardly anyone on the face of the planet over the age of 65 who does not have a couple of diverticuli. The oversight by this doctor is due to its routineness. They can potentially become infected at any time but usually do not and they have no treatment to prevent it from getting infected anyway. Again, mms is the answer.

HEy there. thanks for the replies..

Yea i learned about the diverticuli, and how common it is. But, considering my dad went to do a colonoscopy. Wouldnt it make sense for the doctor to atleast mention it?? I mean, you go through the whole process of a colonscopy, and the doctor couldnt have just said "Youve got some diverticuli, normally its nothing to worry about, but you may want to change your diet a bit, avoid seeds/nuts." who knows maybe that would have stopped my dad from getting an infection.

anywhoo.. yea I guess im gonna see what the naturopath can do for me (hes not actually a certified naturopath, but hes got his own clinic. seems legit, has lots of certifications in various healing methods.

Im not too worried about a liver issue, as I know the liver can regenerate/heal itself very well.. apparently even if you cut out 2/3rs of the liver it will regrow within a few months..

the kidney thing would be worrying though, as from what I know, once the kidneys are damaged, they never heal themeselves back to where they were.. but i maybe dont have anything going on with my kidneys anyway.. just the foamy urine + dark/rust colored pee in the morning made me think kidneys.

anyway, i know i keep making different posts with different symptoms.. i will keep everyone updated as to what this naturopath does with me.

Look up your symptoms as they relate to Sjogren's Syndrome and see if they fit.

Of course there are many possibilities other than this, but this came to mind when I saw your symptoms.

Dan

Hi Dan.. yea thats something ive been concerned with.. My doc ran some tests, and my GammaGlobulin levels were elevated which can be seen in sjogrens, but my ANA test came back fine.. Also, my dry mouth is much better now, most of the time its fine, but maybe slighlty more dry then it once was. I suppose I could investigate that further.. but I am hoping its something more treatable. I dont want to confront the possibility that I have some kind of autoimmune disease. ALso, these symptoms started very quickly, like within a few days, dunno if that can happen with sjogrends, maybe. Also apparently 90% of the time its seen in women, and most commonly diagnosed later in life so already im not quite fitting into that criteria, as I am 23 skinny male. We will see what happens though. Hopefully its something else.

Rust colored pee (first pee of day)
Occasional foamy pee
Poorly formed stools OR hard pellet like stool
Gas / Burping
Muscle twitches (occasional, not severe)
Not happening now, but I had some achey feelings in my liver one night, and some achey/pain in my chest


Hmmm! Just as a beginning, I would take magnesium citrate low dose twice a day, start the morning off with a large glass of water and a couple of Dr Ohiras probiotics.

I've read a few testimonials where sjogrens was cured with mms.

Hey guys..

Yea maybe I can give the magnesium a try, I already have a few bottles of magnesium supplements. For a while I was really getting into the magnesium thing, and started spraying magnesium oil all over my body everyday for a few weeks.. but after that is when all these new symptoms developed so i became paranoid that somehow the magnesium oil had caused the drying out feeling in my body.. but likely it had nothing to do with it so maybe i should continue with what I was doing before.

make sure the magnesium you use is magnesium citrate.

Just out of curiosity... what do you eat and drink during the day...whats your main drink... and how much water do you drink a day

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Well I drink a good amount of water.. Id say roughly 6-8 glasses a day.. seems like I drink more then my friends. I dont drink much else.. I drink brita filtered water (trying to setup a better filter, rather then brita which sits in plastic), and various herbal tea's.

MY diet has changed a lot over the past few months.. For many years I ate tons of fruit.. i was addicted!! eating bananas, blueberries, acai, coconuts, watermelons, apples, etc.. I would drink a fruit shake every morning for a long time. Then i switched to a vegan type diet, and stopped eating meat for a while.. then when this dryness started like 2 months ago I pretty much stopped eating all fruit, and started eating lots of meat again..

Right now I eat a lot of organic meat, chicken, turkey, beef, bison, and some fish, salmon/halibut.. i eat quite a lot of veggies of various kinds and lots of brown rice.. thats the basic summary.. Ive tried to go on a low carb type diet.. no simple sugars, no processed foods, try to eat healthy fats.. lots of avocadoes, olive oil.. lots of brown rice/quinoa, try to only eat organic/high quality meats + veggies..

The more I learn about Sjogrens the more it seems like it could be whats going on.. hopefully not though. But I have a lot of the symptoms.. dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, messed up digestion, sweating abnormalities.. plus muscle twitching has been reported in some cases , although many people with autoimmune issues have multiple "autoimmune" process happening at once..

its like im dealing with sjogrens/fibromyalgia type symptoms.. although I dont have muscle pains or debility per say.. nor fatigue.. its dryness/muscle twitches/messed up digestion.

My plan is to completely heal my digestive system with probiotics/herbs + right diet, fix some of my nutrient/vitamin deficiencies, sleep better and go to sleep earlier, use some natural/herbal solutions to ease the dryness symptoms (just ordered some herbal eye drops).. then see what happens..

IF it is something like that, then I believe it is caused be either/both Antibiotics and Toxic Chemicals .. (i was exposed to a lot of methylparabens/glycols for a few months after taking a month of Ciprofloxacin all from "prostatitis".

Its just crazy to think. Just 2 years ago I had none of these problems whatsoever.. now over the past years its been a journey.. Started with intense panic attacks/anxiety -> prostatitis/sexual problems -> digestive problems -> Dryness/Muscle twitching/Brain fog/possible auto-immune condition

What happened to me? lol.. I blame it on antibiotics/stress/environmental toxins/diet

but im optomistic I can regain full health and be healthier then ive ever been before! Theres a cure to everything, just gotta find it. Plus despite all these symptoms, things could always be worse. I have a decent level of energy/motivation in life, a beautiful girlfriend, friends, family who loves me.. theres a lot more to be grateful for then to be frustrated about!

Panic attacks, anxiety and depression are all mental conditions that can be brought on by inflammation.

That does not tell you what is causing the inflammation, but it usually is going to be from a pathogen your body is doing battle with, probably not so successfully, or it would be short lived inflammation.

MMS would be a good way to try to kill an unknown pathogen. That is when I use it. If I know what the pathogen is, I have more focused ways of dealing with it.

I hope you get to the bottom of it.

Dan