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Question: I suffer from chronic pain. My doctors have begun to discuss the possibility of fibromyalgia.
Recently, my hands have begun to be very swollen and very painful to bend my fingers. I feel very dehydrated despite increasing my water intake each day. In the last 2 weeks I have begun to see a lot of thick mucus in and on my stool. In the last few days the mucus looks bloody. I am also having a lot of abdominal and rectal pain. Could this all be just severe dehydration or something more serious?
Recently, my hands have begun to be very swollen and very painful to bend my fingers. I feel very dehydrated despite increasing my water intake each day. In the last 2 weeks I have begun to see a lot of thick mucus in and on my stool. In the last few days the mucus looks bloody. I am also having a lot of abdominal and rectal pain. Could this all be just severe dehydration or something more serious?
Brief Answer:
Fibromyalgia does not do damage
Detailed Answer:
and any inflammatory condition will cause pain, inflammation, tiredness etc.
So, If someone is increasing their fluids it is already unlikely they were dehydrated before (where would the water be going?) and certainly with increasing it there will not be dehydration.
Inflammation of the bowel often causes fluid to seep out elsewhere. There are many possibilities why. If the gut doesn't work and someone has a vitamin or protein deficiency they cannot hold water in their veins and it seeps out to cause swelling. If there is secondary effects on the kidney, liver, heart or lungs, there will be fluid accumulation and swelling. A disorder that causes inflammation of the bowel will also likely cause inflammation elsewhere and this would cause seepage.
Frankly tehre are a lot of serious diseases that could be occurring. Fibromyalgia is not one of them. It does not produce visible problems.
Fibromyalgia does not do damage
Detailed Answer:
and any inflammatory condition will cause pain, inflammation, tiredness etc.
So, If someone is increasing their fluids it is already unlikely they were dehydrated before (where would the water be going?) and certainly with increasing it there will not be dehydration.
Inflammation of the bowel often causes fluid to seep out elsewhere. There are many possibilities why. If the gut doesn't work and someone has a vitamin or protein deficiency they cannot hold water in their veins and it seeps out to cause swelling. If there is secondary effects on the kidney, liver, heart or lungs, there will be fluid accumulation and swelling. A disorder that causes inflammation of the bowel will also likely cause inflammation elsewhere and this would cause seepage.
Frankly tehre are a lot of serious diseases that could be occurring. Fibromyalgia is not one of them. It does not produce visible problems.
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