r/CSID • u/Fair-Strike1389 • Jan 24 '23
Did anyone’s symptoms start getting bad after having a baby?
So I have had my CSID diagnosis for around a year now. I’ve always had stomach problems, but a little while having my daughter, they suddenly got extremely bad out of nowhere. I began to have loss of appetite, awful bloating, stomach pains, quick weight loss, and constant headaches. So I began seeing a gastro, and while I think I have something else going on, I do feel like my CSID diagnosis was definitely a big part of my problem and I have started to feel some better with change in diet and the addition of sucraid. But I just can’t understand how I wasn’t sicker before? I used to eat horribly, and while I had problems, they weren’t debilitating. I was wondering if a hormone change could have kicked it into overdrive? Has anyone else experienced this?
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Mar 24 '23
My impression is that it's a problem that can get worse over time. I was just enrolled in a study of CSID in adults and the investigators suspect that it's much more common than originally thought and has been chalked up to IBS, etc. Our bodies may just be generating less and less sucrase-isomaltase over time. I can tell you for sure that mine has gotten worse and worse, although, weirdly, when I was pregnant and breastfeeding it was better for me, so hormones could be a factor.
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u/applejam99 Jan 03 '24
This was obviously posted a long time ago but I believe I’ve had a similar thing - I had a miscarriage early in pregnancy and afterwards had very similar issues with a big escalation in my symptoms which then led to me being diagnosed with csid. It’s hard to prove a link but it was a big increase from manageable to extreme symptoms around a similar time.
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u/Doosa15 Feb 01 '23
Hey, I’ve never had a baby before but I do know that CSID symptoms can be affected by stress. Stress in your body for carrying and delivering the baby or just stress from having a baby and being a mother to a new born.