Hi 40 yr F,5 4, 125 (gained 20 lbs [water weight??] in 1 mo) extreme whole body bloating starting 2 days before last menses (now 27 days ago) In addition, I feel like a RAGING BULL (opposite of my calm temperament), to the point of avoiding conversations and friends all month (no outside emo environment variables). Head feels under intense pressure, yet different from a headache.I cannot concentrate on simplest things and stare off into space (not normal, have college degree/love books) Shower hurts my scalp. I feel an internal fire inside me, and arms and legs feel like sunburned (though no sun exposure). recent lab showed normal tsh (well, within normal range) glucose was 2 points above normal. Cholesterol was fine. This whole month, you could not give me a free massage. I avoided wearing my bra all month bc of breast tenderness. No chance I could be pregnant . Not long before all the swelling started, had a severe lactic acidosis from Metformin, resulting in some peripheral numbness in my legs and some burning in my stomach (now cannot eat black pepper) I lost @20 lbs in 1 mo . Once I id d the problem, I stopped immediately. On the way to identifying the source I saw a cardiologist for the shortness of breath (a few months ago now and did a nuclear stress test. He told me my heart and arteries are fine. I do not drink and since I have autoimmune markers to gluten and casein , I avoid wheat and dairy (sometimes eat goat cheese). Can any of the docs help me id why my swelling will not go away (even my ears are swollen!) . Any other labs you need results, feel free to ask-nothing at all was flagged except the glucose by 2 points. Thank you very much, I have been looking up everything from sepsis to shingles to autonomic neuropathy to gastroenteritis and I have no idea by this point