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Anybody familiar with a pheochromocytoma?

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will24
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Long story short I have been having some pretty severe symptoms over the years, muscular issues, lightheaded, feelings of being intoxicated, raynauds phenomenon, and i had my family doctor screen me for a pheochromocytoma.

It consisted of of a 24 hour urine to check for all the usual, according to my doctor everything came back within the normal range except for Dopamine. I do  not know what the unit of measure was just that  my doctor said it was just that my dopamine was 3750 which was significantly elevated, he had no idea why and said he was going to have to make some phone calls to find out. and in the mean time i have to have a ct scan of my adrenals.

Does this sound like it could be a very rare Dopamine producing tumor because all the other hormones were within the normal range?

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