@dawn_giacabazi @johnwburns @alysebrunella @colleenyoung -- I wanted to share the attached photo with you. This is what cytochrome P450 drugs did to me because of my inability to properly-metabolize them. I started ceasing them in January 2016, and by July I had lost 50 pounds -- any stopping these P450-metabolized drugs is the only lifestyle change I made. Though I am still detoxing from them, I will be forever grateful to my Mayo doctors for listening to me and suggesting that I have these tests. What my home doctors couldn't figure out for 12 years, Mayo figured out in only six months.

Interestingly, in December 2015, I was in the patient cafeteria at Mayo and saw a young woman walking by looking for place to sit, so I waved her over to sit with me. We talked about medical stuff, as is normal in that cafeteria, I told her that Mayo was going to perform these Pharmacogenomic tests on me, and I told her that it sounded like she had many of the same issues I was having. We decided to become Facebook friends.

She was able to get into my doctor in Allergy/Immunology, and they decided to perform the testing on her. (I'm not sure why they sent me to the Center for Individualized Medicine but they ordered the tests for her directly from their department.) Anyway, it ends up that she has three of the exact same polymorphisms I have, plus some that I wasn't tested for (and I have polymorphisms that she doesn't have). We are now forever-friends and slowly-building our own community of information to help people.

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*** Looks like the site removed the sides of my photo. I'll try to revise and repost. Regardless, it still gives you a good idea regarding what happened to me.

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