Interactome
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Hi. I wonder if anyone out there has gone through something similar and has some ideas.
I've been having some strange symptoms coming on about 1.5 years ago (difficulty articulating words that clearly, hand/arm stiffness - especially in cold weather, some brain fog). I was low carb before and switched 2 years ago. I've been very stressed over this (anxiety) the past 1 year not knowing what causes all this and started sleeping very badly.
Now, after taking a baby aspirin for about 1.5 months I think I've developed some aspirin toxicity/sensitivity issues.
Short story on the aspirin: I was put in the hospital after they found a borderline EKG and elevated CK levels (I was working out) and gave me blood thinners and aspirin for 3 days until I signed myself out. They advised me to keep up the baby aspirin. 3-4 weeks later I started feeling out of breath, my blood pressure would rise quickly, then stabbing pain in my chest and back. I though it was bc of my heart, so I kept up the baby aspirin for another 2 weeks. Then started kidney pain. Then I felt like my pulse gets very low, especially at night, and my heart skips beats and I'm constantly thirsty. It feels like my blood volume is too low or something, and if I don't drink maybe my heart will stop. I also fasted a bit during this period and lost a lot of weight (bad idea probably). Another thing is that I had a band on my left wrist one day for some hours, and after I took it off some veins around that have dilated more than I know is normal for me, and now, 3 weeks after, they still dilate to that size when I pool blood in them (inadequate energy in my blood vessels to maintain integrity?).
Any ideas of how to correct this? Avoid all salicylate foods and wait it out?
They didn't find anything in my urine nor something wrong with my creatinine, so the doc said it's all in my head. I've been off aspirin now for about 2 weeks and kidney pain has subsided. Still the thirst. I wake up every 2 hours thirsty.
I've been very stressed over all this.
I took some tests 3 weeks ago and found some Candida on my tongue (it has a depapillated patch in the middle and is often sore) and:
- slightly elevated CK levels
- elevated Ammonia levels: 85.3 (normal range 10-60). So I'm probably too alkaline. I feel like my blood pressure falls after I eat some meat.
- prolactin: 448 (98-456) (on the high end?)
- LDL: 122
- total testosterone: 32.99 (9.9-27.8) (but the free was normal)
Normal:
- TSH: 1.21 (0.27-4.2)
- T3: 1.42 (1.27-3.07)
- FT3: 4.4 (3.4-6.8)
- T4: 92.6 (68-181)
- FT4: 18 (10.6-22.7)
- free testosterone: 0.082 (0.015-0.145)
- Progesterone: 2.04 (0.7-4.3)
- Estrogen: 124.7 (94.8-223)
- PTH: 29.4 (15-65)
- Uric acid 5.9 (<7)
- Insulin 6.8 (2.6-24.9)
A cardiologist has done an ultrasound of my heart and found a thickening of one of the valves, and slight insufficiency, which I'm waiting to talk to them about again in a week (due to bacteria?).
A lot of stuff, I know. Just wanna throw this out and see if anything comes of it. I'm thinking of going lower carb for a while (starting today).
I've been having some strange symptoms coming on about 1.5 years ago (difficulty articulating words that clearly, hand/arm stiffness - especially in cold weather, some brain fog). I was low carb before and switched 2 years ago. I've been very stressed over this (anxiety) the past 1 year not knowing what causes all this and started sleeping very badly.
Now, after taking a baby aspirin for about 1.5 months I think I've developed some aspirin toxicity/sensitivity issues.
Short story on the aspirin: I was put in the hospital after they found a borderline EKG and elevated CK levels (I was working out) and gave me blood thinners and aspirin for 3 days until I signed myself out. They advised me to keep up the baby aspirin. 3-4 weeks later I started feeling out of breath, my blood pressure would rise quickly, then stabbing pain in my chest and back. I though it was bc of my heart, so I kept up the baby aspirin for another 2 weeks. Then started kidney pain. Then I felt like my pulse gets very low, especially at night, and my heart skips beats and I'm constantly thirsty. It feels like my blood volume is too low or something, and if I don't drink maybe my heart will stop. I also fasted a bit during this period and lost a lot of weight (bad idea probably). Another thing is that I had a band on my left wrist one day for some hours, and after I took it off some veins around that have dilated more than I know is normal for me, and now, 3 weeks after, they still dilate to that size when I pool blood in them (inadequate energy in my blood vessels to maintain integrity?).
Any ideas of how to correct this? Avoid all salicylate foods and wait it out?
They didn't find anything in my urine nor something wrong with my creatinine, so the doc said it's all in my head. I've been off aspirin now for about 2 weeks and kidney pain has subsided. Still the thirst. I wake up every 2 hours thirsty.
I've been very stressed over all this.
I took some tests 3 weeks ago and found some Candida on my tongue (it has a depapillated patch in the middle and is often sore) and:
- slightly elevated CK levels
- elevated Ammonia levels: 85.3 (normal range 10-60). So I'm probably too alkaline. I feel like my blood pressure falls after I eat some meat.
- prolactin: 448 (98-456) (on the high end?)
- LDL: 122
- total testosterone: 32.99 (9.9-27.8) (but the free was normal)
Normal:
- TSH: 1.21 (0.27-4.2)
- T3: 1.42 (1.27-3.07)
- FT3: 4.4 (3.4-6.8)
- T4: 92.6 (68-181)
- FT4: 18 (10.6-22.7)
- free testosterone: 0.082 (0.015-0.145)
- Progesterone: 2.04 (0.7-4.3)
- Estrogen: 124.7 (94.8-223)
- PTH: 29.4 (15-65)
- Uric acid 5.9 (<7)
- Insulin 6.8 (2.6-24.9)
A cardiologist has done an ultrasound of my heart and found a thickening of one of the valves, and slight insufficiency, which I'm waiting to talk to them about again in a week (due to bacteria?).
A lot of stuff, I know. Just wanna throw this out and see if anything comes of it. I'm thinking of going lower carb for a while (starting today).