Hello guys!
I am new here and really hope somebody can help me with understanding whats wrong with me.
I am a 28 year old guy with sedentary lifestyle.
About 4 month ago I started having terrible panic attacks and generally feeling unwell and depressed. I constantly feel hot my heart is pounding (although it has become slightly better since about 1 month), my body temp is 37 during the day and goes down to 36.4 in evening but I still feel kinda hot. I lost 15 kg in 4 month and while I was skinny fat before now I'm really slim. My face is red but my blood pressure is normal and even on the low end more often than not (100 per 65). I have developed neuropathy type electric vibrations and twitches all over my body but mostly in my legs. They come and go but mostly get better in evening. Even my vision feels blurryish but the eye specialists said my eyes are perfectly fine just dry. I am constantly tired and my muscles feel really tight and while I can fall asleep easily I wake up during the night and have crazy dreams all night. Also I always wake up at 6 am like as if there would be an alarm in my head.
My GP ran basic blood test and said there is no big problem , only my iron is low 6.0 with a normal range starting from 12 (my abc is 5.5 though and my haemoglobin is closer to the upper limit), my uric acid is 450 with upper limit at 420, my b12 is 290 (on the low end) and my d vitamin is 27 also lowish. My recent blood test showed my Creatine kinase is also slightly elevated at 210 (less than 170 is the given range).
I decided to inspect my hormones in private lab and here is what I found out (I did it more then once but here are the latest results)
TSH 0.85
FT3 4.6
FT4 16.5
LH 1.8
FSH 4.5
Testosterone total 310
Estradiol 380 pmol!!! (given range 0 - 146 pmol)
Cortisol 8 am 22 pg ml
Prolactin 8 pg ml
SHGB 32
These tests came back consistantly with minor deviations only in this private lab.
I managed to get to the state clinic where they ran these tests again and my estradiol came back as 15 pg ml ( 13 - 60 pg ml) the first time and less than 10 pg ml the second time. Based on this the doc told me I am fine and don't have an endocrine problem and refuses to treat me in any way.
I don't know who to believe anymore. Based on the tests at the private lab my estradiol is really high while the state lab says its low. The only thing I could get from the technical at the state lab is that they use some sort on CMIA estradiol machine to measure the level in blood.
Did anybody ever experience such differences between the tests? I know the estradiol didn't just go down like that because after the first state test I went back to private lab and it came back 380 pmol again! I went back to the state lab and it showed less than 10 pg ml!!!
Did anybody ever have such symptoms? Can somebody give any input on this?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Alex
I am new here and really hope somebody can help me with understanding whats wrong with me.
I am a 28 year old guy with sedentary lifestyle.
About 4 month ago I started having terrible panic attacks and generally feeling unwell and depressed. I constantly feel hot my heart is pounding (although it has become slightly better since about 1 month), my body temp is 37 during the day and goes down to 36.4 in evening but I still feel kinda hot. I lost 15 kg in 4 month and while I was skinny fat before now I'm really slim. My face is red but my blood pressure is normal and even on the low end more often than not (100 per 65). I have developed neuropathy type electric vibrations and twitches all over my body but mostly in my legs. They come and go but mostly get better in evening. Even my vision feels blurryish but the eye specialists said my eyes are perfectly fine just dry. I am constantly tired and my muscles feel really tight and while I can fall asleep easily I wake up during the night and have crazy dreams all night. Also I always wake up at 6 am like as if there would be an alarm in my head.
My GP ran basic blood test and said there is no big problem , only my iron is low 6.0 with a normal range starting from 12 (my abc is 5.5 though and my haemoglobin is closer to the upper limit), my uric acid is 450 with upper limit at 420, my b12 is 290 (on the low end) and my d vitamin is 27 also lowish. My recent blood test showed my Creatine kinase is also slightly elevated at 210 (less than 170 is the given range).
I decided to inspect my hormones in private lab and here is what I found out (I did it more then once but here are the latest results)
TSH 0.85
FT3 4.6
FT4 16.5
LH 1.8
FSH 4.5
Testosterone total 310
Estradiol 380 pmol!!! (given range 0 - 146 pmol)
Cortisol 8 am 22 pg ml
Prolactin 8 pg ml
SHGB 32
These tests came back consistantly with minor deviations only in this private lab.
I managed to get to the state clinic where they ran these tests again and my estradiol came back as 15 pg ml ( 13 - 60 pg ml) the first time and less than 10 pg ml the second time. Based on this the doc told me I am fine and don't have an endocrine problem and refuses to treat me in any way.
I don't know who to believe anymore. Based on the tests at the private lab my estradiol is really high while the state lab says its low. The only thing I could get from the technical at the state lab is that they use some sort on CMIA estradiol machine to measure the level in blood.
Did anybody ever experience such differences between the tests? I know the estradiol didn't just go down like that because after the first state test I went back to private lab and it came back 380 pmol again! I went back to the state lab and it showed less than 10 pg ml!!!
Did anybody ever have such symptoms? Can somebody give any input on this?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Alex
