What ever happened to katie ta achoo?

[~Shard~]

That explains a lot!

Yes, it shouldn't be that surprising...

 

[Virtualball]

Hey, Thought I'd poke my head in here...

About a month after the blog started, I started to get really physically ill. I lost about 40 pounds in the span of 2 months. (Wasn't trying... And that's a lot of my body weight to lose.) I woke up day after day feeling sick as a dog. During all this, i started to develop anxiety and depression problems... Try waking up every day and feeling like a car hit you--it'll really get to ya. :-/
MR used to be my absolute favorite site. Watching it go from frivolous fun to trolling out the wazoo (a lot of it directed toward me) was disheartening. Waking up every day to see things like "is this a joke?" and personal attacks that had nothing to do with the blog (IIRC, someone actually called me fat. Real mature. If it helps any, I look emaciated now. Thanks, weird GI problem that no one's been able to diagnose!!) really took all the magic away from MR. (For the love of Teh Steve™, remember that there's another human being on the other side of that computer. Yes, the internet is serious business, but please don't be unnecessarily mean.)
My health and anxiety/depression issues finally got to be too much. I had to withdraw from uni, I stopped decorating cakes (all-time favorite hobby), I'd sleep all day, the only reason I'd get up is to go to work so I'd have some freaking money and my shift starts at two. Facilitated my 18-hour a night sleep pattern.

I'm still alive, I'm around in a limited capacity. I was doing better, but I've lost some progress: I'm still pretty depressed, but now I have body-image issues to mess with. (I feel and look like a bag of antlers.) And I still wake up every morning, sick as a dog. Every time I gain weight, I lose it back within the week. It's frustrating, to say the least.

So... Yea, my first public post in more than 4 months. Howabout that.

I feel so bad for you. I loved reading the iPhone column because it gave a wacky personality to MacRumors. I hope you get better and I know that body-image issues are a horrible demon, but I hope you get over them because you're not fat. Hopefully they'll find out what's wrong and you'll be backing to blogging in no time

 

[solvs]

I would have guessed Crohns too, but if that's not it, there are actually a few things that has similar symptoms.

Just off the top of my head, I also thought of Celiac sprue (another GI disease) that deals with intolerance to wheat products.

My ex had that. Something I thought of too, though it's actually gluten that's the culprit. Surprisingly, gluten is in a lot more than wheat products. That's a good place to start, but they usually don't check unless you ask them. Hypoglycemia is another candidate, but usually doctors can catch that right off the bat if you fit all the symptoms. Same with the biggies like Diabetes and Cancer (though it took them awhile for my Stepdad to get his diagnosis, but that was more the doctors and insurance companies dragging their feet to do anything, and my Mom not knowing what to do and not asking questions). My Sister was having similar issues and was recently diagnosed with an immunodeficiency disorder. Not like AIDS, apparently there are quite a few different varieties. I'm struggling with health issues myself recently. We've ruled out kidney stones, and a bunch of other things I have all the symptoms for but don't actually have, so at this point, they're just guessing. Like House, but not as entertaining.

Good luck, I hope you feel better.

 

[Sun Baked]

Sorry to hear about this, hope you find the cause soon and get well.

 

[InvalidBassist]

New to the forums, but not new to the site.

Katie, I had a similar problem with my health a few years back, causing me to drop out of college(and I'm still trying to get back to school).

After seeing a few doctors and trying different remedies, they checked my TSH level and determined that I had a hyperactive thyroid.

I don't know if they've found a cause and a cure for you, but I wish you the best.

 

[yoda13]

I wish you the best too...I don't believe we have ever corresponded directly on the board before, but I enjoy reading many of your posts and blog entries...get to feeling better soon