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Izo

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I was thinking it could be a test from your God. Maybe an x-box or vicodin can fix it?
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Ferritin at 14,7 ug/l is manifest iron deficiency, non-anemic. It can cause fatigue. You need iron supplements, get a physician to calc for you, too much is dangerous! Do you have blood in the stool perhaps or recent surgery?

I'd get a glucose load test done as well to rule out diabetes - it's not done by simply looking at the current glucose level you have.
 
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sl4ck3r_sl

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Wasn't sure if it was a local joint problem or throughout, but figured it was worth the shot at asking. I have discomfort in my knees at times and performing some basic stretches has actually relieved all of that discomfort thankfully.
 
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Izo_sl said:
I was thinking it could be a test from your God. Maybe an x-box or vicodin can fix it?
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Ferritin at 14,7 ug/l is manifest iron deficiency, non-anemic. It can cause fatigue. You need iron supplements, get a physician to calc for you, too much is dangerous! Do you have blood in the stool perhaps or recent surgery?

I'd get a glucose load test done as well to rule out diabetes - it's not done by simply looking at the current glucose level you have.
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The doc and I got me on iron. I do have blood in my stool that comes and goes. Colonoscopy ruled out anything major. The official stance is internal hemmorhoids that aren't visible. We ruled out diabetes already.
 
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Izo_sl said:
I'd get a glucose load test done as well to rule out diabetes - it's not done by simply looking at the current glucose level you have.
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I had a lot of your symptoms, especially the sleeping issues, but my fasting glucose was normal, but I was developing type 1. As soon as I started dosing insulin, my life changed.

Also, have you had a sleep study? Apnea and acid reflux can cause major disruptions despite you looking like you're soundly asleep. If you get a lot of sore throats, look into a bodylength wedge mattress + acid blockers. I also had my life change for the better after getting my sleep study done and dealt with the reflux.
 
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Xasten_sl said:
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I had a lot of your symptoms, especially the sleeping issues, but my fasting glucose was normal, but I was developing type 1. As soon as I started dosing insulin, my life changed.

Also, have you had a sleep study? Apnea and acid reflux can cause major disruptions despite you looking like you're soundly asleep. If you get a lot of sore throats, look into a bodylength wedge mattress + acid blockers. I also had my life change for the better after getting my sleep study done and dealt with the reflux.
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No sore throats, I am refluxing a lot lately and randomly choking on spit or just air. I am going to do a sleep study.
 
Joeboo

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How are your B12 levels? My father had a lot of energy issues, as well as memory and general mental alertness problems. His doctor figured out that he had a B12 deficiency, so now he goes and gets a B12 shot every 2 weeks and it's made a world of difference, he's like a totally different person.
 
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I have a third set of labwork I didn't scan and post that overlaps most of the tests but they added the Lyme that tested high and B12 which was good. We went ahead and did some B12 supplements to see if that would give me some energy but it didn't. That battery of labs also eliminated Celiac's.

The Borrelia Burgdorferi IgG-Ab was double what it should be but Lyme was just not what they thought was possible. No rash and some other things he explained at the time, it just didn't fit.
 
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Wife took a look a look at your numbers.

Your lipids are high but unrelated to the issue. Need to get that checked though.

Iron being low is minor since your h&h is fine but a supplement its good

C reactive protein which shows your body is fighting some kind of inflammatory process is 3.0 and it should be below .8
white blood cell (bks) is 28+ also an issue with above your body is fighting something


You really need to see some specialists. STAT with those symptoms. This is well beyond the realm of a GP.
 
Joeboo

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Hell, what type of specialist do you even start with when you have that many varied symptoms? Neurologist maybe?
 
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Kedwyn_sl said:
Neurologist and infectious disease.
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Neurologist took a look at the labs, yawned and told me that my work schedule was crappy and I should maybe look into a sleep study in the future.

Rheumatologist said, "It looks like Lyme but isn't, no other issues I can see".

EDIT: Oh and yeah lipids I think are more in check now. I was 13 years in the Marines eating well and exercising my ass off. The last year I let go a bit is what we think was going on. Eating better again and taking supplements to lower them.
 
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Go see an infectious disease specialist. Your igg/ame weren't elevated so rheumatologist was the wrong specialist. This likely isn't histamine event with an elevated white count.
 
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Kedwyn_sl said:
Go see an infectious disease specialist. Your igg/ame weren't elevated so rheumatologist was the wrong specialist. This likely isn't histamine event with an elevated white count.
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So I tell my GP based on the CRP and BKS I would like to see infectious disease? Should we do bloodwork over again before making that call?

That bloodwork was from January.
 
Tarrant

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Everything in your OP matches what my brother (who was also a marine) had going on for a long time before he was finally diagnosed with a seizure disorder.
 
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Not for the first two years. Finally yeah he was found on the floor of his office, but as I said he had the time loss and other stuff for a long time before it finally progressed to that.

He's on a medication now for it that keeps it totally under control but unfortantly it lead to his medical discharge as he wasn't allowed to serve with it, meds or no. He was a lifer.
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(was discharged when he was 34)

We learned a lot about seizures, there wouldbe times where he would just zone out and then look at the clock and it would be 25 minutes later. People would see him and just think he was reading his computer or whatever as he was giving no outward signs of anything but come to find out, he was having some weird type of seizure.
 
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Not for the first two years. Finally yeah he was found on the floor of his office, but as I said he had the time loss and other stuff for a long time before it finally progressed to that.

He's on a medication now for it that keeps it totally under control but unfortantly it lead to his medical discharge as he wasn't allowed to serve with it, meds or no. He was a lifer.
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(was discharged when he was 34)

We learned a lot about seizures, there wouldbe times where he would just zone out and then look at the clock and it would be 25 minutes later. People would see him and just think he was reading his computer or whatever as he was giving no outward signs of anything but come to find out, he was having some weird type of seizure.
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Hrmm will look into that also.

So I guess my list is as following:

- Sleep Lab
- Infectious Disease
- Seizures
 
Tarrant

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I would also check to make sure it's not Boneitis.
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Hope it's nothing too serious man and best of luck to you with it.
 
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I really hope you don't have it, and I know you said you had an MRI, but a lot of your symptoms match MS even though that was already suggested by Kirun. In about 10% of cases, especially in younger people, the scar tissue indicating MS is not visible/very hard to detect on an MRI. The speech problem, numbness, headaches, light sensitivity, fatigue, and twitching are classic early MS. If you can't figure it out with the other things suggested, you could ask for a spinal tap. Yeah they're no joke but they can find stuff in there that could indicate autoimmune or any other oddness.

Some other things you may want to get checked: Testosterone/thyroid levels if they weren't covered in the lab. It's not likely, but you could have concurrent issues like low T (which can cause fatigue, joint pain, and some mental confusion if the drop in T is relatively sudden) + something else.

Best of luck.
 
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