messtafarian
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I've been going through all kinds of medical tests to try to get to the bottom of what is wrong with me.
Actually I am now starting to think that I have fluoroquinolone poisoning ( nearly the only thing left). But labwise -- I do not have diabetes. My insulin level is normal. My tsh is low/normal. My heart rate is pretty high. Iron stores are low but rising, no anemia, potassium is normal, magnesium normal, CO2, albumin, etc -- all normal.
H1AA test for carcinoid --normal.
Brain MRI and spinal MRIs -- normal.
The only two things that came back oddly out of range were an elevated plasma dopamine level and a *very* high cortisol level.
So I've been trying to decide if I should be treating this cortisol level. There are herbs I can take --ashwaghanda or holy basil or this thing called Relora -- all of them purport to lower cortisol. On the other hand if I am poisoned -- even though it's uncomfortable and I can actually *feel* the high cortisol through numerous symptoms -- if I should be treating it. It seems to me that my body is responding to "something wrong" and maybe I should just leave it alone and *let* it be high.
The next step with the endocrinologist is going to be a bunch of useless tests to see if I have either a pituitary or adrenal tumor but I know i don't. I don't just "think" I don't -- I have seen my brain and my kidneys on the MRI and unless they are truly miniscule there are no abnormalities on either. The only other place a hormone secreting cancer is likely to be is in my lungs and not only do I not have any lung symptoms I have seen my lungs recently as well and they are clear and without abnormality.
So...maybe there is a reason for the high cortisol, something my body is trying to treat. If I try to lower it I wonder if I'll be messing with with a healing process that should continue.
Should I try to bring it down or leave it alone?
Actually I am now starting to think that I have fluoroquinolone poisoning ( nearly the only thing left). But labwise -- I do not have diabetes. My insulin level is normal. My tsh is low/normal. My heart rate is pretty high. Iron stores are low but rising, no anemia, potassium is normal, magnesium normal, CO2, albumin, etc -- all normal.
H1AA test for carcinoid --normal.
Brain MRI and spinal MRIs -- normal.
The only two things that came back oddly out of range were an elevated plasma dopamine level and a *very* high cortisol level.
So I've been trying to decide if I should be treating this cortisol level. There are herbs I can take --ashwaghanda or holy basil or this thing called Relora -- all of them purport to lower cortisol. On the other hand if I am poisoned -- even though it's uncomfortable and I can actually *feel* the high cortisol through numerous symptoms -- if I should be treating it. It seems to me that my body is responding to "something wrong" and maybe I should just leave it alone and *let* it be high.
The next step with the endocrinologist is going to be a bunch of useless tests to see if I have either a pituitary or adrenal tumor but I know i don't. I don't just "think" I don't -- I have seen my brain and my kidneys on the MRI and unless they are truly miniscule there are no abnormalities on either. The only other place a hormone secreting cancer is likely to be is in my lungs and not only do I not have any lung symptoms I have seen my lungs recently as well and they are clear and without abnormality.
So...maybe there is a reason for the high cortisol, something my body is trying to treat. If I try to lower it I wonder if I'll be messing with with a healing process that should continue.
Should I try to bring it down or leave it alone?