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Got LLMD Labs back - a few issues that were found...
My LLMD nurse called and said that my cortisol was low, my Vitamin D was low, and one of my "immune markers" was "off".
She said they will re-test me for the cortisol and immune marker, as well as prescribed me Vit. D supplements.
I asked about the cortisol and Vit. D and she said that it is "typical for Lyme patients to have this."
I am wondering what the "immune marker" is?? She said they just wanna re-test to make sure. Yikes! I don't know whether to be glad that I have a doc that is looking at every little thing, or feel paranoid, like they've found something worse!
Oh well, I am off to google low cortisol and low vitamin d....with Lyme disease and without.
She said they will re-test me for the cortisol and immune marker, as well as prescribed me Vit. D supplements.
I asked about the cortisol and Vit. D and she said that it is "typical for Lyme patients to have this."
I am wondering what the "immune marker" is?? She said they just wanna re-test to make sure. Yikes! I don't know whether to be glad that I have a doc that is looking at every little thing, or feel paranoid, like they've found something worse!
Oh well, I am off to google low cortisol and low vitamin d....with Lyme disease and without.
I really wonder about this Vitamin D trend -- as far as what they say is normal and low.
One reason is that even folks in Hawaii's vitamin D is low.
Since you live in sunny Calif.., you shouldn't have the problem either.
Back east, it's a little trickier as it does get to the freezing point for a good 4 or 5 months out of the year! We also get rain!
It is curious!
Hope - You have a good and thorough LLMD!
One reason is that even folks in Hawaii's vitamin D is low.
Since you live in sunny Calif.., you shouldn't have the problem either.
Back east, it's a little trickier as it does get to the freezing point for a good 4 or 5 months out of the year! We also get rain!
It is curious!
Hope - You have a good and thorough LLMD!
Would be good to see those test results for yourself, yes?
Who knows what 'immune marker' is referenced.
When I was first very, very ill with Lyme and Babesiosis, one of the circus of MDs I went tested my Vit D and was all hot and bothered about how low it was, and prescribed huge amounts of Vit D. Granted, I had been working and living in a way so that I seldom went outside, so maybe I WAS down in Vit D supplies. I tried to read up on Vit D, but it's so strange a topic that I couldn't really figure it out.
My solution: go sit in the sun. After not very much of that, and after I was well into treatment for Lyme and Babesiosis, my Vit D is up to normal, with never taking any supplements. On a sunny day, I roll the car windown down when I'm at a stop light and get sun on my face and arms, and that's really all I do.
I don't claim to understand it, but there is some complicated feedback loop in the Vitamin D situation, and I was never able to convince myself that big doses of those pills was going to have the right effect. The recent hysteria among MDs about Vit D reminds me of "Don't eat fat! Eat carbs!" and similar campaigns that after a few years of disaster result in the docs saying, "Oh. Never mind!"
So I wouldn't get real concerned just yet if it were my test. Look at the lab report, do a little reading, and analyze. I know you're a careful thinker and researcher, and will scope it out.
(Can't we all just be well now? Enough already!!!) Take care.
Who knows what 'immune marker' is referenced.
When I was first very, very ill with Lyme and Babesiosis, one of the circus of MDs I went tested my Vit D and was all hot and bothered about how low it was, and prescribed huge amounts of Vit D. Granted, I had been working and living in a way so that I seldom went outside, so maybe I WAS down in Vit D supplies. I tried to read up on Vit D, but it's so strange a topic that I couldn't really figure it out.
My solution: go sit in the sun. After not very much of that, and after I was well into treatment for Lyme and Babesiosis, my Vit D is up to normal, with never taking any supplements. On a sunny day, I roll the car windown down when I'm at a stop light and get sun on my face and arms, and that's really all I do.
I don't claim to understand it, but there is some complicated feedback loop in the Vitamin D situation, and I was never able to convince myself that big doses of those pills was going to have the right effect. The recent hysteria among MDs about Vit D reminds me of "Don't eat fat! Eat carbs!" and similar campaigns that after a few years of disaster result in the docs saying, "Oh. Never mind!"
So I wouldn't get real concerned just yet if it were my test. Look at the lab report, do a little reading, and analyze. I know you're a careful thinker and researcher, and will scope it out.
(Can't we all just be well now? Enough already!!!) Take care.
Hi Hope, cortisol is a glucocorticoid made by the adrenal glands, a potential cause for it to be low is adrenal insufficiency, which is known as Addison's Disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison%27s_Disease
Immune marker to me would mean quantity of Leukocytes (WBC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukocytes
I researched Vitamin D and this is what I read on Wikipedia:
Vitamin D3 is made in the skin when 7-dehydrocholesterol reacts with UVB ultraviolet light at wavelengths between 270–300 nm, with peak synthesis occurring between 295-297 nm. These wavelengths are present in sunlight when the UV index is greater than 3. At this solar elevation, which occurs daily within the tropics, daily during the spring and summer seasons in temperate regions, and almost never within the arctic circles, adequate amounts of vitamin D3 can be made in the skin after only ten to fifteen minutes of sun exposure at least two times per week to the face, arms, hands, or back without sunscreen. With longer exposure to UVB rays, an equilibrium is achieved in the skin, and the vitamin simply degrades as fast as it is generated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_d
What I gather from that is unless we live in a cave or the north pole, our D3 really shouldn't be "low", especially when summer just ended two weeks ago. I also wonder why the body shuts off the production of it so quickly if it's something we need so much more of. Why doesn't the body just churn that stuff out till the cows come home ? :) Then they normally don't even check the form of Vitamin D that does stuff, 1,25D3, except now in cases of osteoporosis, and a few other exceptions usually related to calcium metabolism.
You ever have a doctor tell you your thyroid is low or borderline ? Take care ~Corvin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison%27s_Disease
Immune marker to me would mean quantity of Leukocytes (WBC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukocytes
I researched Vitamin D and this is what I read on Wikipedia:
Vitamin D3 is made in the skin when 7-dehydrocholesterol reacts with UVB ultraviolet light at wavelengths between 270–300 nm, with peak synthesis occurring between 295-297 nm. These wavelengths are present in sunlight when the UV index is greater than 3. At this solar elevation, which occurs daily within the tropics, daily during the spring and summer seasons in temperate regions, and almost never within the arctic circles, adequate amounts of vitamin D3 can be made in the skin after only ten to fifteen minutes of sun exposure at least two times per week to the face, arms, hands, or back without sunscreen. With longer exposure to UVB rays, an equilibrium is achieved in the skin, and the vitamin simply degrades as fast as it is generated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_d
What I gather from that is unless we live in a cave or the north pole, our D3 really shouldn't be "low", especially when summer just ended two weeks ago. I also wonder why the body shuts off the production of it so quickly if it's something we need so much more of. Why doesn't the body just churn that stuff out till the cows come home ? :) Then they normally don't even check the form of Vitamin D that does stuff, 1,25D3, except now in cases of osteoporosis, and a few other exceptions usually related to calcium metabolism.
You ever have a doctor tell you your thyroid is low or borderline ? Take care ~Corvin
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