Well, I finally got my NutrEval test results scanned in, so even if you're hopeless at helping (like I am), it's a really interesting test to look at:
http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailsh..._NAME=snapfish
Now, for background. I am 31 and haven't felt "right" since I was about seven. This was shortly after we moved to rural northern Louisiana from St. Louis. My youngest brother had also been born six months prior to the move and he has Down's Syndrome. He had to have open heart surgery at three months. My mother developed severe asthma and was very ill. The doctors started pumping her full of prednisone which made her very intense and erratic emotionally. I started developing seasonal allergies (to pine pollen, initially. not really sure to what else) that didn't greatly affect me until middle school and then in high school I had to start taking something for them because they were really affecting my life. Back to when I was little. My mother kept taking me to the doctor because I didn't feel well (vague feelings of unwell, fatigue) and he ran blood tests of some sort but the only thing that came back was an elevated white cell count (I'm working on memory here) with no further explanation. No action was taken. I learned to live with it.
I started becoming more introverted at the same time and had extreme difficulty making friends. I felt very isolated and was internally distraught about this. We moved again when I was 10, back to St. Louis. My friend problems continued there, although were slightly better. In middle school, I really started to develop a social anxiety problem. I still deal with that today. I thought I was an alcoholic for a few years because that's how I dealt with it when I was out, but recently started drinking socially again and have had no problems (and this was on my therapist's suggestion because he didn't think I was really an alcoholic. He has never told anyone that before
).
In high school I missed a lot of school because of the same vague feelings of being unwell. My mother sometimes wouldn't even bother to wake me up in the morning because she said I looked so awful. She said I would be very pale and have dark circles under my eyes. I was able to get good grades without a whole lot of effort, but was seriously apathetic about my studies. I've dealt with a LOT of apathy in my life. I felt very lazy and out of control, but couldn't get it together. My junior year of high school I developed full-blown depression that went away without treatment my senior year, but came back with a vengeance my freshman year of college. I failed out of school and came back home to live with my parents who had moved to Baltimore. I went on Paxil which made me numb to things and gave me the occasional panic attack. I smoked pot and drank recreationally to help with the anxiety. I eventually went off Paxil (slowly and painfully) and seemed to be fine without it (or I guess, just not any worse). I got married when I was 24 and I think the stress pushed me back into depression. I was on Lexapro and Adderol for a while. I was given Depacote and Provigil for my lethargy and apathy and emotional outbursts. I got pregnant by accident and had to go off of everything cold turkey (and everything included Prevacid, Rhinocort, Zyrtec, Lexapro, and Adderol). I had a missed miscarriage at around 12 weeks and had a D and C. I switched therapists and went on Cymalta at his suggestion which seemed to help immensely, but gave me raging IBS (which I did not relate to the drug until I went off of it) and killed my dwindling libido. I started getting acupuncture for the IBS on the advice of my GI and started to lean more towards natural healing but couldn't motivate myself to do anything about how I felt. The acupuncture helped me deal with the IBS until it miraculously went away when I went off Cymbalta so that I could get pregnant.
My pregnancy was rough and I felt like crap the entire time. I fortunately did not have morning sickness like I did with my first. I just felt incredibly drained and really could not do much of anything without getting lightheaded or having a buzzing in my ears. I was dangerously close to PIH at the end and I think I actually did have it, but it was masked by my adrenal fatigue. I also had self-diagnosed irritable uterus. I also gained about 60 pounds on top of the 15 or so I had gained in the few months prior to getting pregnant. I'm not sure why I gained that weight because I wasn't doing anything different; I had just gone off of Nuvaring and Cymbalta. I had a decent hospital birth with midwives, but had a retained placenta.
My sleep has been poor since high school, waking up a few times a night, not really remembering dreams. I was ALWAYS tired. I could sleep for 14 hours and still wake up unrested. I still don't wake up feeling rested, although it has been better since starting adrenal treatment.
My DS was born healthy but nursed CONSTANTLY and started having problems that I were pretty sure were allergy related after just a few weeks. He wasn't growing well and was waking up every 45 minutes at night until I finally went on TED and discovered that gluten, onions, garlic, ginger, and coconut oil were a problem. I'll save you the journey there until later. I eventually decided to go on GAPS because his issues weren't totally resolved. Since then I've discovered that I have issues with banana, nuts, pumpkin seeds in large quantities, any kind of grain, lentils and possibly dairy. I also reacted to something in Mtn Momma's nutrient tea and have not trialed each individually. All of these reactions manifest as a very sore stomach, sometimes with unformed stool. Sometimes fatigue as well. Dairy is just fatigue (but that was just from ghee, so maybe it would be worse from whole dairy).
I've seen three holistic doctors (ND's aren't licensed here). I'm very happy with the one I'm currently seeing because she's really into testing to figure out what's up. DS is also seeing her.
That's all I can think of for now. Off to get my supplements together to write that all down. I've never seen it all together, so I imagine I'm in for a shock...
http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailsh..._NAME=snapfish
Now, for background. I am 31 and haven't felt "right" since I was about seven. This was shortly after we moved to rural northern Louisiana from St. Louis. My youngest brother had also been born six months prior to the move and he has Down's Syndrome. He had to have open heart surgery at three months. My mother developed severe asthma and was very ill. The doctors started pumping her full of prednisone which made her very intense and erratic emotionally. I started developing seasonal allergies (to pine pollen, initially. not really sure to what else) that didn't greatly affect me until middle school and then in high school I had to start taking something for them because they were really affecting my life. Back to when I was little. My mother kept taking me to the doctor because I didn't feel well (vague feelings of unwell, fatigue) and he ran blood tests of some sort but the only thing that came back was an elevated white cell count (I'm working on memory here) with no further explanation. No action was taken. I learned to live with it.
I started becoming more introverted at the same time and had extreme difficulty making friends. I felt very isolated and was internally distraught about this. We moved again when I was 10, back to St. Louis. My friend problems continued there, although were slightly better. In middle school, I really started to develop a social anxiety problem. I still deal with that today. I thought I was an alcoholic for a few years because that's how I dealt with it when I was out, but recently started drinking socially again and have had no problems (and this was on my therapist's suggestion because he didn't think I was really an alcoholic. He has never told anyone that before
).In high school I missed a lot of school because of the same vague feelings of being unwell. My mother sometimes wouldn't even bother to wake me up in the morning because she said I looked so awful. She said I would be very pale and have dark circles under my eyes. I was able to get good grades without a whole lot of effort, but was seriously apathetic about my studies. I've dealt with a LOT of apathy in my life. I felt very lazy and out of control, but couldn't get it together. My junior year of high school I developed full-blown depression that went away without treatment my senior year, but came back with a vengeance my freshman year of college. I failed out of school and came back home to live with my parents who had moved to Baltimore. I went on Paxil which made me numb to things and gave me the occasional panic attack. I smoked pot and drank recreationally to help with the anxiety. I eventually went off Paxil (slowly and painfully) and seemed to be fine without it (or I guess, just not any worse). I got married when I was 24 and I think the stress pushed me back into depression. I was on Lexapro and Adderol for a while. I was given Depacote and Provigil for my lethargy and apathy and emotional outbursts. I got pregnant by accident and had to go off of everything cold turkey (and everything included Prevacid, Rhinocort, Zyrtec, Lexapro, and Adderol). I had a missed miscarriage at around 12 weeks and had a D and C. I switched therapists and went on Cymalta at his suggestion which seemed to help immensely, but gave me raging IBS (which I did not relate to the drug until I went off of it) and killed my dwindling libido. I started getting acupuncture for the IBS on the advice of my GI and started to lean more towards natural healing but couldn't motivate myself to do anything about how I felt. The acupuncture helped me deal with the IBS until it miraculously went away when I went off Cymbalta so that I could get pregnant.
My pregnancy was rough and I felt like crap the entire time. I fortunately did not have morning sickness like I did with my first. I just felt incredibly drained and really could not do much of anything without getting lightheaded or having a buzzing in my ears. I was dangerously close to PIH at the end and I think I actually did have it, but it was masked by my adrenal fatigue. I also had self-diagnosed irritable uterus. I also gained about 60 pounds on top of the 15 or so I had gained in the few months prior to getting pregnant. I'm not sure why I gained that weight because I wasn't doing anything different; I had just gone off of Nuvaring and Cymbalta. I had a decent hospital birth with midwives, but had a retained placenta.
My sleep has been poor since high school, waking up a few times a night, not really remembering dreams. I was ALWAYS tired. I could sleep for 14 hours and still wake up unrested. I still don't wake up feeling rested, although it has been better since starting adrenal treatment.
My DS was born healthy but nursed CONSTANTLY and started having problems that I were pretty sure were allergy related after just a few weeks. He wasn't growing well and was waking up every 45 minutes at night until I finally went on TED and discovered that gluten, onions, garlic, ginger, and coconut oil were a problem. I'll save you the journey there until later. I eventually decided to go on GAPS because his issues weren't totally resolved. Since then I've discovered that I have issues with banana, nuts, pumpkin seeds in large quantities, any kind of grain, lentils and possibly dairy. I also reacted to something in Mtn Momma's nutrient tea and have not trialed each individually. All of these reactions manifest as a very sore stomach, sometimes with unformed stool. Sometimes fatigue as well. Dairy is just fatigue (but that was just from ghee, so maybe it would be worse from whole dairy).
I've seen three holistic doctors (ND's aren't licensed here). I'm very happy with the one I'm currently seeing because she's really into testing to figure out what's up. DS is also seeing her.
That's all I can think of for now. Off to get my supplements together to write that all down. I've never seen it all together, so I imagine I'm in for a shock...
