I do in fact have a dx of a pheochromocytoma, and I will be getting a scan next week to pinpoint it’s location, because they can be in the adrenal medulla on either kidney or somewhere else in the abdomen or pelvis. A contrast will be injected after the first set of pictures. That way the reading radiologist will compare the images without and then with contrast. If I hadn’t ended up in the hospital 2 and 1/2 years ago with very high BP after eating Kimchi, which is fermented cabbage I probably wouldn’t be getting all this attention now. Because Kimchi is a fermented product, and I wasn’t aware that people with these particular tumors must never eat fermented foods, because they have a lot of tyramine in them, and that’s why my BP went so high. There are all sorts of foods that I cannot eat, it’s quite a list.

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