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My Mysterious Illness

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jun 23, 2023 | Replies (16)

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@z4pper

Decided to jump back on here to update anyone who was wondering what was happening. I found out what was causing my illness.

I went to a research study, every specialist under the sun, even did acupuncture and oils because I was at my wits end. No one had answers. Eventually I couldn't eat anything and at 130lbs I wasn't able to maintain my weight. I lost 20 lbs and looked like a skeleton. I ran out of answers. Around the same time, a family friend had a daughter who was 21, she had an odd occurence where her brain reverted back to a 3 year old, and she was unbable to communicate or function like a 21 year old anymore. They went to a functional medicine doctor and he found the problem and she regained her faculties. She's getting married in a couple months.

I was put in touch with him and within a month he found the problem. 4 years of doctors scratching their heads and everyone under the sun suggesting it could be ringworm, and this doc found my answer in a month! Turns out I had no autoimmune disorder, no parasites, no mold, no dysautonomia, but rather a genetic problem. MTHFR they call it. But I also had another overlapping genetic problem, the snips we looked at had problems in all sorts of different areas in my body. According to him, I hit the worst genetic lottery jackpot he had ever seen.

Basically, my body cannot process folate. It also has problems producing cortisol and detoxifying it's system. These produce dramatic trickle down effects which means, my body isn't getting the oxygen, the hormones, or the nutrients it needs to function. And all the toxins have been building up over a long time. We've started supplements and I've already noticed an improvement! Hopefully this is a great start to getting back on track!

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@z4upper, Glad you are making progress with your diagnosis., but it is not great surprise. Every living body has billions of variations (variants) of genes which send their lives off in different directions. Finding a team to diagnose and treat them can be the most difficult part of the whole stream. I am finally finding my group of variations to deal with, centering on a family systemic cancer which even Mayo told me was not there unless I had $7000 to spend on it. Much of this is Multiple Myeloma, >Amyloidosis, Gelsolin, >Prion, >etc. It can be traced to generations and events of long ago, certainly as far as the Vikings, the Samurai, Henry II of England, Portuguese, South Africa, etc. Then add my radon infested home, working years in cattle, Living and working downwind from radiation labs, traveling around the US, Canada and Mexico, spending enormous hours visiting and working with my sick folks in their own homes, hospitals, working as an EMT, bunches of physical accidents, and so on. So celebrate that you are learning and expanding your horizons. And let increasing your own knowledge of yourself be one of your chief lifetime goals. oldkarl

Wow. I'm so happy for you! My 32 year old son has 22q but in the last few years multiple lymph nodes have begun swelling and increasing in size. We haven't been able to find anyone with answers. We are frustrated and he is very depressed. I can't even find where to start looking! Drs run test after test and each pain complaint turns into another swollen node. Anyway, Maybe there's hope. If you found a doc maybe there is one somewhere for us.