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Hey Marla, I am new to this platform! I have a very serious health case (I have so many issues haha!) and was wondering if you have any insight? I know you cant diagnose so I am not expecting that 🙂
here goes!
I am 33 years old and was born prematurely (34 wks). I had ear infections and surgery on thumbs. Exposure to multiple antibiotics at an early age too. I have GI symptoms and having a lot of gas around the age of 7 and ever since. Growing up, I ate mostly frozen food and fast food. During adolescents I experienced constipation, had a little problem with low blood sugar (low as 40) , Age 23 frequent URIs within 4 or 5 months. Prescribed medication (z pack).
Folliculitis (face, chest, back). More antibiotics. Developed constipation.
Chronic anal itching and tissues.
Anal surgery repaired fissure but anal itching a prominent symptom.
Contracted two STDS. And was diagnosed with mild restrictive lung disease during this time.
Hair started falling out. Other symptoms: insomnia, irritability, suicidal ideation. And metallic taste in mouth and nausea (some times).
My main complaints (I had labs done and these were my results):
1) Fatigue
2) Anal itching / anal fissures
3) HPV
4) HSV
5) IBS-D
6) + ANA
7) Hypothyroid
8) EBV
9) Anxiety/Stress
10) Mild depressionNormal CBC
ANA + nuclear pattern 1:320
EBV titers raised – IgG
CBC, CMP unremarkableSalivary Steroids
Estradiol 1.2 L – 1.3-3.3 pg/mL Premenopausal (Luteal)
Progesterone 117 – 75-270 pg/mL Premenopausal (Luteal)
Ratio: Pg/E2 98 L – Optimal: 100-500 when E2 1.3-3.3 pg/mL
Testosterone 28 – 16-55 pg/mL (Age Dependent)
DHEAS 7.9 – 2-23 ng/mL (Age Dependent)
Cortisol 6.9 – 3.7-9.5 ng/mL (morning)
Cortisol 2.5 – 1.2-3.0 ng/mL (noon)
Cortisol 1.4 – 0.6-1.9 ng/mL (evening)
Cortisol 1.3 H – 0.4-1.0 ng/mL (night)Treatment to date:
Probiotics
Iron
IV Vitamin C
ThyroidThoughts on what to do next?
Hey Lindsay! Welcome! I am sorry to hear about all your struggles! I cannot diagnose or even give you treatment recommendations seeing as you are not a client however, here are some basic guidelines to run by YOUR PRACTITIONER and see if it is something you should be doing. please OD NOT take these recommendations and supplements without talking to your practitioner first.
With chronic anal itching, I typically see one of 2 things – pinworms or candida. A high quality stool test is in order however sometimes they do still come back with a false negative.
With being a preemie, chances of poor methylation are very high and this is key to eliminating the EBV, HPV and herpes. Testing whole blood histamine, homocysteine, serum copper & plasma zinc gives you indication of where you are on this. EBV needs daily support of baicalin, monolaurin, CBD, and maybe cistus incanus.
Chronic stress leads to loss of Th1 and NK cell response, as I often discuss, setting up a likelihood of dysbiotic vulnerability.
You will need substantial reorganization of autonomic nervous system function. Heartmath is often a useful place to start, as it can be done at home, privately, with very concrete feedback about entrainment, done in a safe place. And it’s much less of a commitment than psychotherapy (which would be great to do but isn’t a baby step).The hypoglycemia is also noteworthy. M1 macrophages can’t kill pathogens if they don’t have glucose, so you will not have success killing pathogens when you’re hypoglycemic. It will be important to know how often this is happening. A home glucose monitor might be suitable, to get data on this.
And you have to identify any other markers of autoimmunity that might be present aside from elevated ANA.Individualized nutrition is key to healing so I would work with a nutritionist!
Hope this helps!
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