Run down on MY symptoms

 This is just the run down on my symptoms (means its not my symptom):
  

• Increased incidence of glucose intolerance or frank diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease
• Thryroid
• Increase risk of different Cancers caused by excessive and prolonged GH and IGF-1 in the body 
• Memory loss, forgetfulness and the ability to focus and concentrate,impaired thought process
• Soft tissue swelling of internal organs, notably the heart with attendant weakening of its muscularity and the kidneys
• Enlarged liver, heart, kidneys, spleen and other organs
• Increased incidence of congestive heart failure, which might be due to uncontrolled hypertension or to an intrinsic form of cardiomyopathy attributable to excess GH/IGF-I.
• Shortness of breath  
• Chest pain
• Palpitations or rapid heart beat 
• Easy fatigue, decreased muscle strength (weakness)
• Poor exercise tolerance
• Brittle bones, low bone density
• Back pain, Arthritis, limited joint movement, swelling of the bony areas around a joint
• Pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness in hands and wrists (carpal tunnel)
• vocal cords, husky voice due to enlarged vocal cords and sinuses resulting in a characteristic thick, enlarged tongue deep voice and slowing of speech 
• Reduced sex drive and in men erectile dysfunction
• Abnormalities of the menstrual cycle and sometimes breast discharge in women
• Infertility
• frequent bladder infections
• Increased thirst or urination 
• Difficulty breathing during sleep (sleep apnea), severe snoring and frequent brief interruptions in night time breathing (sleep apnea) due to tissue swelling that blocks your upper airway, causing poor sleep and excessive sleepiness during the day
• Nausea
•  Loss of smell and taste
• Irritability, anger easily,moodiness and Depression
• Fatigue 
• Vertigo/Dizzyness
• Fainting
• Running into objects, bumping into walls and people
• A symptom where a person is intolerant to changes of temperature particularly heat, hot flashes

Physical changes:

• Soft tissue swelling visibly resulting in enlargement of the, nose, lips and ears. Generalized expansion of the the skull at the fontanelle's. Pronounced brow protrusion, often with ocular distension 

• Increase in ring size or tightness of rings (due to hand swelling, sausage like fingers.) increase in shoe size (due to foot swelling. Thickened skin, especially on palms of hands or soles of feet Enlarged hands and feet, widenedfingers or toes due to skin over growth with swelling, redness, and pain
• Increased chest size causing the appearance of a barrel chest

• Small skin outgrowths skin tags, thickening of the skin, skin is oily are possible markers for colonic polyps. Patients with acromegaly are also at increased risk for polyps of the colon that can develop into cancer.
• Excess hair growth in females
• Weight gain (unintentional)
• Increased perspiration accompanied with body odor

• Hypertrichosis, hyperpigmentation, and hyperhidrosis may occur
• oiliness, acne
• shortened life span
• excessive ear wax 
• Teeth and Jaw problem TMJ, New overbite, under bite, or spreading out of teeth

These symptoms didnt happen all at once it happened gradually over time, so it was hard for me and my doctors to see what was wrong. which leads me to my next blog......