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Test Results


Ursa Major

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Okay, I got all my test results back (except for the vitamin D, it takes longer for some reason).

Here are the values:

Fasting glucose: 5.0, normal 3.6 - 6.0

Creatinine: 74, normal 50 - 100

eGFR: 77, Can't figure out what it says, but appears to be normal

Bilirubin total: 8, normal: < 23 umol/L

Cholesterol: 5.13, normal: < 5.20 mmol/L

Triglycerides: 0.79, normal: < 2.30 mmol/L - The doctor LOVES this one!

HDL Cholesterol: 1.72, normal: < 1.30 mmol/L

LDL Cholesterol: 3.0

Vitamin B12: 830, normal: over 150

Ferritin: 105, normal: 101 - 300

Sodium: 143, normal: 135 - 145

Potassium: 4.5, normal: 3.3 - 5.1

Chloride: 105, normal: 95 - 108

Alkaline Phosphatase: 67, normal: 35 - 122

AST: 16, normal: < 31

sTSH: 3.76, normal: 0.35 - 5.00

T4 Free: 14, normal: 10 - 20

Free T3: 3.9, normal: 2.6 - 5.7

Hemoglobin A1C: 0.052 , non-diabetic: 0.040 - 0.060

FSH: 51, 23 - 116=pre-menopausal (as in peri-menopause, yeah, fun :blink:, no wonder I'm having hot-flashes!)

Hemoglobin: 144, normal: 115 - 155

Hematocrit: 0.41, normal: 0.33 - 0.45

RBC: 4.81, normal: 3.60 - 5.01

RBC indices: MCV: 85.9, normal: 80 - 99

MCH: 29.9, normal: 27 - 32

MCHC: 347, normal: 320 - 360

RDW: 12.7, normal: 11.5 - 15.5

WBC: 4.2, normal: 4.0 - 11.0

Platelets: 266, normal: 145 - 400

Differential WBC's:

Neutrophils: 2.39, normal: 1.80 - 7.00

Lymphocytes: 1.30, normal: 1.00 - 3.20

Monocytes: 0.38, normal: 0.00 - 0.80

Eosinophils: 0.08, normal: 0.00 - 0.40

Basophils: 0.04, normal: 0.00 - 0.20

Well, there you have it...........no wonder that they didn't take enough blood last Friday for all of that, and I had to go back on Tuesday to have more blood taken!

The naturopath says it's all normal, and we can rule out anemia and thyroid trouble as a cause of my fatigue. He is treating me for adrenal fatigue now. I got a supplement from him today that contains adrenal and spleen concentrates, as well as wild yam and licorice.

Since both wild yam and licorice are fairly high in salicylates, I will have to limit my food even more, and really only eat things that contain no salicylates. He says to start out taking one pill of the medine a day for three days, then for three days two pills, and after that three a day. If I start having body aches, I am supposed to cut back to where it will be okay. It will be sort of tricky, but I think it can be done.

I am also taking (and have been taking) cod liver oil, a high potency b-complex, and calcium and magnesium with vitamin D at this point. He doesn't want me to add anything else until we can see what this new medicine will do.

He also had me take a homeopathic medicine while I was there. Some of them are only supposed to be taken once every two weeks or so. I imagine I get another dose of it when I see him again in two weeks.

I told him that I am not able to go to bed early and get up early, because I've been a night owl all my life (even as a little kid). If I go to bed at 9:00 or 10:00 PM, my body thinks it's a nap, and I'll be wide awake by 2:00 or 3:00 AM, and won't be able to go back to sleep for two to three hours. I have to get up, have a snack, and do stuff, before going back to bed and sleeping till noon.

Whereas if I go to bed at midnight or 1:00 AM, I sleep like a baby until 10:00 or 11:00 AM.

He said that I would do myself more harm trying to go against my own natural body rythm. Getting uninterrupted sleep is very important right now, and so I shouldn't go to bed early. Unfortunately, our bodies make the most melatonin between 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM, but we might just have to supplement with 5HTP for that. Which will come in a couple of weeks. He said, one new thing at a time, and we won't know what this new medicine will do, if we add too many things at a time.

So, I thought just in case any of you were wondering what is going on, here you go. Hopefully, I will start feeling a little better soon.


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trents Grand Master

Your labs make you look healthy as a horse! How are you sleeping at night?

Steve

CarlaB Enthusiast

That's all good news Ursula! My doc said that if I had lots of blood work done she was sure it'd come back normal ... so she was sure I had adrenal fatigue. She wasn't making a guess, she did have some old bloodwork to go by. Keep us posted!

Ursa Major Collaborator
Your labs make you look healthy as a horse! How are you sleeping at night?

Steve

Well, I sleep quite well (unless I have awful nightmares, which happens sometimes). Too bad that when I wake up I feel almost as exhausted as when I go to bed, even after I sleep for eight to ten hours! But if I get less sleep than nine hours, I really, really can't function at all.

I do wake up sometimes because of awful hot flashes. It really isn't helpful that I am in peri-menopause right now. Rats, what poor timing!

And yeah, those labs are deceiving, because the adrenal burnout is so bad that unless something is done and those adrenals start normalizing, I won't live long.

DingoGirl Enthusiast
Well, I sleep quite well (unless I have awful nightmares, which happens sometimes). Too bad that when I wake up I feel almost as exhausted as when I go to bed, even after I sleep for eight to ten hours! But if I get less sleep than nine hours, I really, really can't function at all.

Ursula - - I go through periods of this same thing....before Celiac dx, I was severely anemic, and could sleep for literally 16 hours and still be hardly able to function. Now, I am mildly anemic, but still have this exhaustion at times....please let us know how you do and your progress with the supplements.

I, too can hardly function if I don't get my 8 hours - - like a wooly blanket is over my brain - - practically mush and it's so hard to get through the day. Days like that are soooo long..... :unsure:

AndreaB Contributor

Good to hear that all your bloodwork came back normal Ursula.

Keep us posted on the new meds.

georgie Enthusiast

Ursula, Your Dr didn't test for Thyroid Antibodies. Until that result comes back you can't say that Thyroid is normal. How are your body temps ? Do you feel cold ?


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