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What is wrong with me?
Hi everyone, thanks for taking the time to read this. I am 21 years old, and I have been experiencing symptoms for almost 2 years now. Here are the symptoms (I do not know if they are all related or separate things are going on). I am a medical mystery to my doctors:
- Tachycardia from walking/mild exercise - sometimes I get tachycardic just from standing.
- Excessive fatigue
- Feeling hot more easily
- Difficulties breathing and dry cough. It feels like I can't get enough air in - that's the best way to describe it.
- Visual disturbances. When I move my eyes up, to the left or to the right, I get grey or black holes in my vision. Floaters as a cause has been ruled out.
- Numbness in the right hand side of my feet, legs and thighs when I sit down for a long period or lay down flat on my back for even a few minutes.
- Tightness in my neck and shoulders (thoraic tightness, I think the doctor called it).
Bloodwork showed low growth hormones, low PTH and low vitamin D levels.
- Tachycardia from walking/mild exercise - sometimes I get tachycardic just from standing.
- Excessive fatigue
- Feeling hot more easily
- Difficulties breathing and dry cough. It feels like I can't get enough air in - that's the best way to describe it.
- Visual disturbances. When I move my eyes up, to the left or to the right, I get grey or black holes in my vision. Floaters as a cause has been ruled out.
- Numbness in the right hand side of my feet, legs and thighs when I sit down for a long period or lay down flat on my back for even a few minutes.
- Tightness in my neck and shoulders (thoraic tightness, I think the doctor called it).
Bloodwork showed low growth hormones, low PTH and low vitamin D levels.
Aim at 60ngr of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in your serum.
The Vitamin D3 is better (faster) than the D2.
You can take it in daily doses of 2000-5000 IU or in weekly doses of 50.000 IU.
In 4-6 weeks you should note an increase.
How are your levels of CA & Mg? Probably they also need to be treated.
For the visual and the GH problem, has you checked with a neurologist to see if there is any problem with the pituitary ?
Jesus
The Vitamin D3 is better (faster) than the D2.
You can take it in daily doses of 2000-5000 IU or in weekly doses of 50.000 IU.
In 4-6 weeks you should note an increase.
How are your levels of CA & Mg? Probably they also need to be treated.
For the visual and the GH problem, has you checked with a neurologist to see if there is any problem with the pituitary ?
Jesus
No, they put me on Vit D supplements but it has still continued to drop. I am in the "moderate" deficiency category.
I have noticed I become tachycardic mainly when I stand/walk and my heart rate seems to become normal (under 100) when I sit down again.
I forgot to mention that I also have unexplained hypertension since this all began.
They do not know why my PTH is low or my GH . My thyroid is normal and I do not know about sexual hormones. I do not have anorexia.
Thank you for the reply :-)
I have noticed I become tachycardic mainly when I stand/walk and my heart rate seems to become normal (under 100) when I sit down again.
I forgot to mention that I also have unexplained hypertension since this all began.
They do not know why my PTH is low or my GH . My thyroid is normal and I do not know about sexual hormones. I do not have anorexia.
Thank you for the reply :-)
Some of your symptoms can be explained by low Vit. D which in turn it is also explained by low PTH.
Have your doctors already corrected those deficiencies?
Have you got any reason for the low PTH and GH?
I assume your thyroids and sexual hormones are O.K. and you have not suffered anorexia.
Jesus
Have your doctors already corrected those deficiencies?
Have you got any reason for the low PTH and GH?
I assume your thyroids and sexual hormones are O.K. and you have not suffered anorexia.
Jesus
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