Drum roll please……………..Celiac results

And they are……………………………………NEGATIVE.  Told ya in the last post didn’t I????  I knew they would be too.  Nothing is ever easily explained with me.  When I started this medical mystery journey they were looking for myasthenia gravis because of my symptoms and it turned out to be iron deficiency.  Yeah they are related…not!  No one thought to [...]

Testing for Celiac

Thanks to Regina (who has been a wonderful resource for my commentors….thanks Regina!!!)  I called my endocrinologist before my latest round of lab work and asked her about the connection between Celiac disease and the other problems I have been suffering from.  I told her about the:

Iron deficiency

Vitamin D deficiency

Autoimmune thyroid disorder (Grave’s)

Generalized joint pain

Vague [...]

Thyroid and Iron updates

I missed my last thyroid appt (oops, forgot and overslept!!).  Actually that isn’t like me at all but my 4 year old son had had open heart surgery the week before so my mind was in another place.  I got the appt rescheduled for a month later but knew something was up with my thyroid.  [...]

My thyroid is doing strange things & iron update

I went a week ago and had my pre-thyroid appointment bloodwork done.  This included my newest iron studies that were done after taking the Rx strength iron for the last 3 months.  Being the impatient patient that I am I was unwilling to wait the week until my appointment so I called my endocrinologist.  She [...]

I have a diagnosis finally!

I had a follow up appointment with my endocrinologist today for my hyperthyroidism.  We were discussing how my symptoms had come back.  The double vision, shortness of breath with any exertion, muscle weakness, etc.  See this post for more on that.  Luckily it’s not nearly as bad as it was when I started this blog. 
During the appointment [...]

Results are in

The latest battery of testing is done and I have results:  

The single fiber EMG was completely normal.  According to the neurophysiologist that did it this definatively rules out MG along with the fact that my blood work for MG was normal and so was my regular EMG.  He had no other suggestions for what [...]

Thyroid update and life in general

Had my appointment earlier today and it went well.  My TSH is up to 0.89 from a low of 0.20 at one point.   Normal by most labs is considered 0.35-5 but my endocrinologist feels that you aren’t in the “normal” catagory until you reach 1.  So I’m almost there!!  She started laughing when I told [...]

Hello world!

I thought long and hard before starting a new blog but then decided I needed one for MYSELF.  I have several already but they are all about other things and none that I can really talk about myself.  Although I guess there is one that I can but it really concentrates on my spiritual journey [...]