Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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Thank you! Way much to consider here... It seems that I need to sit

my own doctor down and have a conversation because, based on all that

you have said, I am not sure that she is taking me as serious as she

should be... Back to the drawing board!

 

Cindy

 

, " AJ Reed " <ajreed@h...>

wrote:

> I had written before about being hypothyroid, and took herbs for

it. It

> took about a month to get to the doctor for blood work, and another

month to

> get the results back. All the symptoms I had were for hypothyroid,

but the

> bloodwork came back for hyperthyroid. I've been taking herbs for

> hypothyroid since the beginning of March, and don't have the

bloodwork from

> before starting the supplementation. And I'm finally off the Depo-

Provera

> shot, that can throw the results off.

> So, in the interest of having a benchmark, I'm going back to the

doctor for

> more bloodwork, thyroid and adrenals.

> I probably won't use anything from the dr, but would like to know

the

> starting point.

> Some history, I have never been to the dr. except for annual exams,

and my

> kids were born at home with the help of a midwife, so there is no

history to

> work from except going over symptoms.

> The dr mentioned chronic fatigue, lupus, lyme disease ( I'm in the

NE).

> I have read up on Wilson's thyroid syndrome, and adrenal fatigue

syndrome.

> But am getting the bloodwork so at least we know something and

aren't just

> doing the let's try this today...

> All that said, I just read in the nutritional healing book that

chronic

> fatigue can be a magnesium deficiency or a virus from sinusitis.

>

> Analise

>

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