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Possible serious illness or just bad immune system?
A little background information: I grew up in the Northwest United States, in a chronically damp room. There was black mold, a quarter of the way up three of the four bedroom walls. As a child, I had chronic ear infections, and chickenpox. As an infant, for the first six month of life I refused to eat either breast milk or formula and was hospitalized. After the six months, I was eating normal enough to go home. As a teenager, I developed migraines, a tremor that has progressively gotten worse and moved from just the hands to my arms, trunk, voice, and now the legs, and insomnia with puberty. The longest I have stayed awake was 54 hours, even after taking sleep aides.
I take butter-bur, Valerian root, ginkgo, B-2, Doxylamine, Propanolol 10mg (for the tremors), and a multivitamin with iron.
Maternal history of migraines, heart disease, and insomnia; paternal history clear of all medical issues. I gave vaginal birth five years ago with no complications, no drug use, no surgeries, no major accidents, no broken bones, fractured two ribs and a finger, a minor concussion 6 months ago with no lasting effects. However, for the past year and a half, my migraines have taken a drastic turn for the worst. No auras, but I have now developed an intermittent inability to form a coherent sentence with the bad ones, my response time has slowed drastically, my balance is off, and upon standing get a flash of thunder in my head, like an ice pick.
Frequent urination, at least two times an hour, and I take at least an hour to fall asleep. I wake up more tired than when I laid down, I have zero energy levels most days. And before anyone says anything it is not depression. I am more happy than anyone else my age. Which is 24. Random arrhythmia when at rest, high heart rate at rest, very low blood pressure. And I have had a low grade fever for about two months now. Stiff neck, sore joints, back pain, swollen hands, extremely cold feet and TM J.
I'm awaiting my blood work to come in, but I'd like to hear another's opinion so I can ask my doctor what she thinks of your ideas. (If anyone comments). I know this is an overwhelming amount of information, but I have been suffering for a long time and just now found a decent doctor willing to listen to me and not just brush me off as a whiner, or over dramatizing things. So thanks, in advance.
I take butter-bur, Valerian root, ginkgo, B-2, Doxylamine, Propanolol 10mg (for the tremors), and a multivitamin with iron.
Maternal history of migraines, heart disease, and insomnia; paternal history clear of all medical issues. I gave vaginal birth five years ago with no complications, no drug use, no surgeries, no major accidents, no broken bones, fractured two ribs and a finger, a minor concussion 6 months ago with no lasting effects. However, for the past year and a half, my migraines have taken a drastic turn for the worst. No auras, but I have now developed an intermittent inability to form a coherent sentence with the bad ones, my response time has slowed drastically, my balance is off, and upon standing get a flash of thunder in my head, like an ice pick.
Frequent urination, at least two times an hour, and I take at least an hour to fall asleep. I wake up more tired than when I laid down, I have zero energy levels most days. And before anyone says anything it is not depression. I am more happy than anyone else my age. Which is 24. Random arrhythmia when at rest, high heart rate at rest, very low blood pressure. And I have had a low grade fever for about two months now. Stiff neck, sore joints, back pain, swollen hands, extremely cold feet and TM J.
I'm awaiting my blood work to come in, but I'd like to hear another's opinion so I can ask my doctor what she thinks of your ideas. (If anyone comments). I know this is an overwhelming amount of information, but I have been suffering for a long time and just now found a decent doctor willing to listen to me and not just brush me off as a whiner, or over dramatizing things. So thanks, in advance.
Could be side effects from the meds especially the Propanaol...the doc may reccommend you stop taking them, if he does ease off slowly as you can get nasty withdrawal.
Classic symptoms of adrenal dysfunction with secondary hypothyroidism.
This does not exclude the possiblity of co-existing primary hypothyroidism
(type 1 or type 2). There's also indication of O-A-T Axis imbalance, which should be ruled out, however, you need a Holistic Endocrinologist to help you this, perhaps a Functional Medicine Doctor, knowledgeable in this field.
Other possibilities include methylation dysfunction, nutritional deficiencies and underlying pathogenic infections, like pathogenic mycoplasma and co-infections. Search here Dr. Garth Nicolson, an expert in this field and part-time medhelp contributor.
Hope this helps.
Niko
This does not exclude the possiblity of co-existing primary hypothyroidism
(type 1 or type 2). There's also indication of O-A-T Axis imbalance, which should be ruled out, however, you need a Holistic Endocrinologist to help you this, perhaps a Functional Medicine Doctor, knowledgeable in this field.
Other possibilities include methylation dysfunction, nutritional deficiencies and underlying pathogenic infections, like pathogenic mycoplasma and co-infections. Search here Dr. Garth Nicolson, an expert in this field and part-time medhelp contributor.
Hope this helps.
Niko
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