Mathieu’s Personal Story

Mathieu’s Personal Story- Never Give Up

Hey everyone I choose other in the disorder topics cause I’ve been sick since this month of May and I didn’t get a diagnose yet ,My name is Mathieu and I’m 39,i can see here that there’s alot of people suffering even more then me and it is inspiring to see has human being how much we can be so resilient.
I work on construction weight 280 pounds and was one of the strongest most hard
working guy on site and now my bosses and co workers just treat me like im some kind of coward cause I can’t even do half of what I used too do in a day I now weight 210 pounds it all started this summer after I came back from the gym I had a attack that felt like a shock true my brain and heart with severe palpitations and my 2 harms went numb and couldn’t raise them went to ER got my heart check and everything was good a week after I started having stabbing pains in my gut with fainting spells and extreme dizziness to the point I couldn’t think anymore didn’t feel like doing much and I kind of went down the rabbit hole ,I could find just enough strength to do my days and come back home eat and go straight to bed and start over the next day,thank God for my parents ,after all that i realized that my stools was getting smaller and smaller with diarrhea but even with diarrhea I needed to force it out and that came with a severe point under my left rib never going away still there till this day and with that I just kept being more and more and now extremely tired all the time I can say that I have no more life right now ,my life is all my symptoms and fighting with the doctors to try to find a diagnosis I went 8 times to ER 2 urgent care clinic and 10 visits to my family doctor since May this summer he keeps blaming this on depression when I know in my heart that is not I’m at a point now that I’m struggling to breathe and pass one bowel a week if im lucky …..one month ago I finally said enough with the health care system and I went for a whole body mri that I paid with my savings that saw swollen lymph nodes in my mesenteric, finally a sign ,the physician now says that I need a ct angiography for mor evaluation……so I’m now waiting for that test and I want to say no matter what never give up.

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