u/im-mia

I am 28F who was adopted when I was 2 weeks old. My birth mom was also adopted. The only thing I know about my maternal grandmother is she died “young” (I have no idea how old she was and that the adoption agency said “she was an alcoholic, epileptic, crazy person”). My birth mom is still alive and is 44, she messages me on Facebook sometimes, but that is all I know of her. Ever since I heard about Huntingtons disease, something clicked in my head and I remembered those words and wondered if my maternal grandmother could have had Huntingtons and no one knew? I think about this everyday and everytime I get short tempered with my own kids I start panicking thinking I’m starting to show symptoms of HD. I know I could message my birth mom and ask her if she’s showing symptoms? But I feel like that is a random ask and honestly I’m terrified to know.

My parents are older due to having us late in life and my mom recently passed away. My mom was and my dad still is super hands-on with their grandkids (me and my husband’s two kids). My husband‘s parents who live 30 min away have never initiated plans the 4 years we’ve had kids. I’ve never been a daughter-in-law who kept their son from them or ever talked bad about them or anything like that. (Except now! lol) I actually initiate all the plans because I want my kids to grow up knowing and being around their grandparents. My husband‘s dad thinks he can make it up by just buying things for my kids since he has a lot of money, so come Christmas time, He just clicks “add to cart” Amazon and thinks he’s the best grandpa. He takes us on vacation and then spends 80% of the vacation watching reels on his phone and never actually playing/ holding/talking/feeding our kids. We’ve never gotten a meal from them even after we had our kids and we’re in the thick of it. Never got a meal after my mom died. They’ve never asked to babysit to give us a break. I know I’m so mad about it because my mom would do anything to still be here and her whole life revolved around our kids, and then to see two perfectly healthy grandparents who can’t even give our kids the time of day is really upsetting me

I have a GI appt but not until July… back in November I noticed my food going slowly down my throat and almost getting stuck a few times. It slowly got worse and I just would always make sure I’d have water with me when I ate. Sometime a Zyrtec would help. Within the following months I was going through the most stress of my life so I told myself my dysphagia was anxiety. It felt like I had a huge lump in my throat when I’d even just swallow liquids. Fast forward to a month ago, I notice that about 30 minutes after I consumed dairy, my stomach would start cramping and I’d have to go to the bathroom. I thought I randomly became lactose intolerant, so I stopped dairy. Well about a week into no dairy, my super tight throat feels almost back to normal! I found out about EoE which is why I scheduled the GI. Does this sound like your guys symptoms as well? The only thing is I’ve been drinking fairlife milk and having lactose free butter and still feel great.

I will preface by I have a GI appt in a few months. But for about 6 months I’ve have trouble swallowing/ food getting stuck. I found out about EOE and scheduled appt recently. But I was doubting it since I saw people have stomach issues and I had none. ( except some acid reflux after coffee/tomatos). Well about a month ago I started having terrible stomach cramps after eating and narrowed it down to all of a sudden becoming lactose intolerant. Even a sliver of butter sets it off. I’ve been dairy free for about 5 days now, my acid reflux is gone, and my throat feels like it’s opening up again? Is this all connected somehow? Am I not lactose intolerant but my stomach issues have to do with EOE? I know my doctors will give me answers but just wanted to hear from you guys what your experiences were.

Does this sound like gallbladder? I’m 10 months post partum (which I heard gallbladder problems are common postpartum, never knew that). For the past month I’ve had stomach cramps after eating (I’ve never had these before except when I’ve had stomach flu ) they are relieved when I go to the bathroom. Well, a couple of times it was so bad. I thought I had food poisoning I narrowed it down after I had something with theory in it so I thought maybe I randomly became lactose intolerant, which I guess can happen. I stopped dairy and felt better except last night I had 3 eggs, and an avocado. I was in the bathroom almost all night going to the bathroom. I felt better after I went to the bathroom about three times. I’ve put a sliver of butter on the pan so the eggs wouldn’t stick . I just find it hard to believe that lactose intolerance would hit me this bad for a sliver of butter, which led me to thinking about gallbladder issues. Maybe I have it wrong and that it’s not the lactose meals but the meals high and fat. The only thing is I don’t have URQ pain at all. Does it sound like it could be the beginning of gallbladder issues or would I have that gallbladder pain?

Anyone have lump in throat feeling with vitamin b12 deficiency?

Pepcid. I started it when I got acid reflux when pregnant. Well after I had the baby 95% of my reflux went away. (I never knew you had to ween off of it). Well here I am 10 months later still needing Pepcid, and my dr said it’s safe to take everyday. Well after seeing it can cause B12 deficiency- THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. I’ve been feeling crazy. Leg weakness, tingling numbness, anxiety, randomly got lactose intolerant, difficulty swallowing, there’s probably more that have been going wrong, but I am going to get my b12 levels checked and go from there. But how do I stop Pepcid? I get bad rebound acid. I’ve stopped all acidic foods, but I know 2 big triggers now for me are stress and if I bend over to pick something up