I'm having multiple odd episodes that are keeping me undiagnosed. Help

@barbbie As I stated before, I think there are great MDs and great DOs, and also some in each line who are much less than great. I think my PCP, an MD, does care about me physically and mentally, I just have other reservations about him since he did not diagnose me when I was sick. If I decided to change doctors I know I would definitely consider a DO, there are some in my area who are very highly regarded. One of our closest friends is an MD and he tends to not think as highly of DOs as he does of MDs but I think that's a personal prejudice.

I believe it is an old prejudice against them that is slowly going away, that makes people regard DOs less highly than they regard MDs. Bottom line, you need to see a doctor you are confident of and comfortable with, be it an MD or a DO.
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Yes low dose naltrexone is not used for drug addiction but you cannot use opiates with it because of that. For drug addiction it’s used in much much higher doses even injections. But low dose like 1.5 to 4.5mgs is used for autoimmune conditions and inflammatory issues. I think how it was discovered was when it was used for addicts who were hiv. It was noticed that the effects were helpful to the disease because it helps the immune system.

I go to a naturopathic doctor for any issues; the most challenging being recurrent UTIs. She is a godsend. There are not many naturopathic doctors in Quebec where I live. This one has a Masters of Science degree (3 years in university) and advanced training in naturopathy. This is not a person who has taken a 3 month, on line course as some do to become naturopaths...
She sent my blood for intolerance/allergy testing and the results surprised me. I knew already that dairy sent me into paroxysms of coughing and asthma so the result that I am dairy protein intolerant did not surprise me. Some other obscure results were however revealing such as an intolerance/allergy...to one particular nut, sunflower seeds, barley and a number of other foods. One thing I am relieved to know is that I am NOT gluten intolerant. My asthmatic reaction to bread was because many breads contain milk which I had never checked ! I now know exactly what to avoid and I read ingredients on all food products.
I now have a stool test to do.
I prefer lifestyle approaches rather than taking drugs...with all their side effects. Just watch an ad on TV for drugs and see all the warning signs...including cancer and death. No thank you! I will lose weight, eat even more vegetables, avoid foods I am intolerant to, drink more water, get more exercise, avoid sugar and stimulants etc..

@afrobin Thank you for pointing this out about naturopath's. Anyone interested in going this direction please do your homework!!! There are many charlatans out there!!!

@barbbie I also prefer DO's to MD's. I appreciate the approach of everything is connected and the best way to approach it, rather than treating the symptom. I've been through so many MD's but also DO's. Some of the DO's do the schooling but you can tell they don't care, or at least stopped caring. Glad to hear about your husband's sleep doctor. The world needs more doctors like that.

I am no doctor but I am thinking about my older sister who recently died. She lived for years with panic disorder and although she was very bright and capable, and watched her diet carefully, she never got relief. She would not follow directions from mental health professionals and did not take her meds correctly. However she lived into her late nineties with daily panic attacks and had hospice care at the end. Family help did not work out well. She lived a traumatic childhood and I blamed her problems on anxiety from a bad start in life that she could never work her way out of, despite a successful career in office management, sales, and music. She was talented and beautiful but did not bond with people well.
She had one unsuccessful marriage and one successful marriage until the second husband died. I have no shame in seeking help with counselors and psychiatrists, and only had one panic attack in my life before I decided that was unacceptable and I overcame it. I think it is important to seek mental health care even when the counselor does not provide helpful solutions. Physical examinations are not enough. The head is attached to the body and is not a separate unit. Treat everything together as a whole. Dorisena

Yes, when I gave up sugar and sweets after cancer surgery, I no longer have UTI's. And so far, no more cancer, as sugar feeds the cancer cells first. Dorisena

Hi, @dorisena - just wanted to point out a Mayo Clinic article on causes of cancer https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cancer/in-depth/cancer-causes/art-20044714 that might be of interest to you. It offers this information on a cancer causation myth related to sugar:

Myth: People with cancer shouldn't eat sugar, since it can cause cancer to grow faster.

Fact: Sugar doesn't make cancer grow faster. All cells, including cancer cells, depend on blood sugar (glucose) for energy. But giving more sugar to cancer cells doesn't speed their growth. Likewise, depriving cancer cells of sugar doesn't slow their growth.

This misconception may be based in part on a misunderstanding of positron emission tomography (PET) scans, which use a small amount of radioactive tracer — typically a form of glucose. All tissues in your body absorb some of this tracer, but tissues that are using more energy — including cancer cells — absorb greater amounts. For this reason, some people have concluded that cancer cells grow faster on sugar. But this isn't true.

However, there is some evidence that consuming large amounts of sugar is associated with an increased risk of certain cancers, including esophageal cancer. It can also lead to weight gain and increase the risk of obesity and diabetes, which may increase the risk of cancer.

Thank you for the information. What I am really interested in is what increases the risk of cancer and whether or not diabetes makes the risk higher, because my husband did not take care of his diabetes and did not stay on the prescribed regimen and his cancer metasticized into a tumor on the spine which killed him in short order. I have been taught that there is a relationship between fat in the breasts and cancer, which I had and survived, so I am more careful about fat in my diet. I prefer olive oil and no longer raise hogs on the farm, so the lard is gone out of my life. I did not believe that sugar speeds cancer cell growth.
I thought it went to the cancer cells first, and neglected the good cells. Of course, I will continue searching for the latest information. I certainly am happy avoiding sugar and sweets, however, it is difficult to convince my friends of my content. I want to feel as though I am doing everything I can to avoid recurring cancer if possible, or have it return at a very old age and die quickly. I prefer not to die being run over by a truck. My husband ran over my leg with a disk and I survived that without losing my leg, so I tend to be careful about many risks. I am glad to hear that obesity is associated with increased risk of cancer, because I believe that dealing with his overeating disorder could have helped prevent his early death. His awful death was a big lesson for me.
What I read was that sugar 'feeds cancer cells" and that was a turn off for me. Dorisena

as I recommended I believe you need to review your meds with mayo or ucla or john Hopkins and also see a immuniologist in regards to your extreme food allergies in area off grains and plants and also gut specialist to review your gut and gut walls and intestines and villi in the walls of stomach . I would encourage seeing a renal specialist for your kidneys and the metabolites and hypertensive condition and levels of fatty acids and liver and the link to this and possible fatty acid