Test Results

[Ursa Major]

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 , 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.

[trents]

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

Steve

[CarlaB]

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]

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]

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.....

[AndreaB]

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

Keep us posted on the new meds.

[georgie]

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 ?