Originally Posted by
Ceremonious
Since I got some blood results back I figure it's time to post an update.
Over the past month things have gotten slowly better. I've gone back to eating just meat and vegetables - not even any low GI fruit and even cut out pumpkin as I found out that with eating 1kg every day it was about 40g sugar which may explain why I was stagnating for several weeks. Almost all inflammation in my face is gone at the moment, nose is pretty much back to normal size and no redness. I tried adding just sweet potato for one day and within 24 hours all the usual inflammation and symptoms returned so as much as it sucks having no carb source I have no other choice until I can figure out why this is happening.
With my bloods I got an allergen test done, she tested for everything she could via bloods except gluten... which you think would be #1 to test. Everything came back negative but that didn't shock me considering it was mostly just nuts and seafood so going to seek out a clinic to get a comprehensive allergy test done.
I got tested for MS and lupus which both came back negative thank god - was really concerned about lupus considering my symptoms and MS because of all the tingling I get around my nose and eyes. So at this stage it's not looking like and autoimmune disease but in saying that I haven't been tested for celiac. Although it still seems like I'm having some type of autoimmune response with foods. My B12, Vit D levels etc are all great which shows that malabsorption isn't an issue. My bloods did show that my test is ridiculously low, no shock there... This is the first blood test I've actually read myself so bare that in mind as I post the results below (I'm just posting them as they are in front of me).
TSH 1.77 0.03L mU/L (0.5-5.5)
T4 17.3 pmol/L (11.0-22.0)
T3 3.2 pmol/L (3.2-6.4)
ESTRO <44 pmol/L (<160)
TESTO 5.3 L nmol/L (12.0-31.9)
SHBG 64 H nmol/L (17-56)
FreeTesto 64 L pmol/L (260-740)
6 months ago I had 17" arms, now I'm basically a woman... haha thank you propecia. Have an appointment with an endo for the middle of Jan. Hopefully something good comes of it but we'll see.