Symptoms worsening and GP doesn't know what to try next.
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please can someone give me some insight.
im female, 61.
slightly overweight and I cannot shift an ounce with diet.
2 months ago I was swimming 12 lengths of pool and walking up to 4-5 miles with my dogs with no need to stop.
now I have terrible shortness of breath. Exhaustion like all my energy has drained away. Dizziness. Strange periods of memory loss though dementia test online shows everything ok.
Had chest Xray--- clear
ECG. Clear
general bloods All clear.
was put on very low dose of 2.5 Lusinopril for high blood pressure only 4 weeks ago and it dropped to normal within days.
If if I rest at home for an entire day, I can function the following day but half hour stroll, Hoover the house, do a few odds and ends--- and then the symptoms are at their worst the next morning.
mornings worst. Slight improvement as the day goes on, and at 10pm I feel fine. Can breathe, walk, anything. But 7 am next day I'm back in hell, it feels.
please, can anyone tell me what's going on?
P.S. Never smoked, don't drink, never done drugs , vegetarian for 50 years.
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Annaflare Hollyberry
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There are a couple things I could ask. I'm not going to criticise the vegetarian diet, though I will ask are you getting enough iron and cholesterol? Something has obviously changed recently, the question is, what is that something.
Basical blood tests have come back normal. You've asked here because you're thinking it's hormonal, and it very easily could be. The thing is, there is a large amount of overlap in the symptomatology of hormone deficiencies.
It could be adrenal, it could be thyroid and it could be sex hormones... it could even be a combination of the above. Unfortunately, the only way to rule things out is through more testing. Changes to one hormonal system can effect all the hormonal systems in the body.
So, we assume it's probably hormonal, this is why I've asked about cholesterol, cholesterol forms the building block for every hormone in the body (if you want to check it out, look up the hormone cascade). Another thing is, are you getting enough iodine, a large number of people in the modern world are iodine deficient and iodine is needed for the tyroid to function properly... as is zinc, which is something else a number of us are deficient in.
The testing you really want done, is morning Cortisol, TSH, T3, T4, E2, Testosterone (it's needed for girls as well), Progesterone and DHEAS.
All of those can give you a good picture of what the 3 major systems are doing.
Rach89 Hollyberry
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Hi, I'm sorry you are dealing with this. Have you been checked for cushings disease? Adrenal function and cortisol levels?
Annaflare Rach89
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Unfortunately, if it's anything like where I am, only a specialist would be able to check for something like Cushings. High cortisol would be an indicator.. if cortisol came back excessively high then a GP would be able to refer her on to a endocrinologist, who would then be able to look more in depth and do acth testing.
Cortisol and dhea are adrenal hormones. TSH (a number of doctors just use TSH by itself, it just doesn't give enough information), T3 and T4 are thyroid hormones. E2 (oestradiol the main oestrogen) and testosterone cover the main sex hormones.. between E2 and Progesterone you can work out potential estrogen dominance issues.