YAYEZ!!!
The rheumatologist has got it narrowed down to one of the blood disorders and about halfway sorted. Apparently I probably have a form of pernicious anemia? And since the tests for the common parasites came back negative, it's probably autoimmune. The part where my body is attacking it's own cells and being really low on a bunch of vitamins 'cause it's having trouble absorbing anything causes a lot of the pain and fatigue I've been getting. So one B-12 injection and 50,000 IU of vitamin D later and I feel a lot better and should get to feeling normal within the week as far as being tired all the time goes. A lot of the pain will clear up, too, but it's possible that not all of the pain will go away immediately. We'll have to wait and see on that.
Aren't you glad it's never lupus? 'Cause I totally am!
In other, more egg-on-my-face news, I don't have the antibodies for celiac. And the symptoms that made me try going gluten-free (anemia, hormonal disturbance, migraine, HAIR LOSS) all line up with the intermittent acute period of pernicious anemia. And any rough dietary transition might have affected my immune system, possibly enough to throw it out of the attacking-itself-with-knives stage, so it got better. And I took that coincidence as confirmation. That still doesn't explain the dramatic drop in incidence of migraine, but if gluten can be a migraine trigger without you being gluten intolerant, more investigation into this is required.
So tonight, I am investigating. With croissants. I will be at Le Madeleine at 7:30 tonight to investigate their pastries. :DDDDDDD
Even if it ends in pain, it will be glorious!
Aren't you glad it's never lupus? 'Cause I totally am!
In other, more egg-on-my-face news, I don't have the antibodies for celiac. And the symptoms that made me try going gluten-free (anemia, hormonal disturbance, migraine, HAIR LOSS) all line up with the intermittent acute period of pernicious anemia. And any rough dietary transition might have affected my immune system, possibly enough to throw it out of the attacking-itself-with-knives stage, so it got better. And I took that coincidence as confirmation. That still doesn't explain the dramatic drop in incidence of migraine, but if gluten can be a migraine trigger without you being gluten intolerant, more investigation into this is required.
So tonight, I am investigating. With croissants. I will be at Le Madeleine at 7:30 tonight to investigate their pastries. :DDDDDDD
Even if it ends in pain, it will be glorious!